The WH Spin on the Spin on the Original Spin

How they whirl! On September 17, 2001 Bush stood before the world and said we had to find Osama bin Laden, dead or alive. And bin Laden’s Al Qaeda organization had to be stopped in order to save the world. By all accounts Osama bin Laden is still more alive than dead, and Al Qaeda is still terrorizing the world. On February 5, 2003, in order to justify the US preemptive attack on Iraq, Colin Powell stood before the UN and presented anguished rhetoric and documents, including a vial of fake anthrax, to prove Saddam Hussein had biochemicals and weapons of mass destruction and had to be stopped. By now the BushMen were implying it was Saddam who had attacked the World Trade Center not Osama. On March 20, 2003 we attacked Iraq . No WMD were found. On May 2, 2003 Bush claimed our mission in Iraq was accomplished. "The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September 11, 2001, and still goes on,” he said. Immediately after declaring that the all-out, boot-stomping, fire-and-brimstone, beat-the-devil-into-submission war on evil had been accomplished, the war was revised by the White House re-write crew into a mission to bring democracy to Iraq. On January 24, 2005, the Washington Post’s Dan Froomkin wrote, referring to the inauguration speech, "Bush advisers said the speech was the rhetorical institutionalization of the Bush doctrine and reflected the president's deepest convictions about the purposes behind his foreign policies. . .It has its own policy implications, but it is not to say we're not doing this already,' said White House counselor Daniel J. Bartlett." Having trouble wrapping your mind around WH-speak? Dan Bartlett said that Bush’s prime directive has always been to bring freedom and liberty to the entire world. So just erase any memories you may have about the BushMen using lies and deceit to destroy Iraq in their mission to rule the world. The BushMen have a long way to go before their version of history is accepted. Even Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan who writes for the Wall Street Journal is not convinced. This morning Salon.com quoted her reaction to the inauguration speech. "The speech did not deal with specifics -- 9/11, terrorism, particular alliances, Iraq. It was, instead, assertively abstract. Ending tyranny in the world? Well that's an ambition, and if you're going to have an ambition it might as well be a big one. But this declaration, which is not wrong by any means, seemed to me to land somewhere between dreamy and disturbing. Tyranny is a very bad thing and quite wicked, but one doesn't expect we're going to eradicate it any time soon. Again, this is not heaven, it's earth." I’m betting the next WH spin is going to be something like this: Our vision thing is to bring peace, freedom and liberty to the world, but the world may not be ready for the sweetness and goodness of Bush II. Therefore, we may, alas, have to wage more wars and annihilate more countries before we can make the world ready for Jesus’s return. The resulting devastation and misery is your fault, not ours.