Looking for an upbeat way to begin the weekend ain’t easy …
Not when another helicopter has gone down in Iraq, this time killing six American soldiers …
Not when the
helicopter shoot-down …
Not when Shrub’s rush to war in Iraq looks increasingly like a high-level conspiracy to ignore any other
option …
Not when Jessica Lynch says she feels “used” by the U.S. military,
which “lied” about her and “manipulated” her story …
Not when the independent 9/11 commission may have to subpoena Oval Office documents Shrub and his
minions are still withholding from its investigation of intelligence
failures involving the 9/11 attacks, because Shrub has reneged on his promise to cooperate fully …
Not when Der Gropenfuhrer of Culifornia says he’ll hire a private eye to investigate charges
made against him by women who claim he sexually assaulted them, but <
EM>he may not turn over the results to the
state’s attorney general because he distrusts him …
Not when mendacity was the theme of the week and not just the refrain of both Tennessee
Williams’ southern-fried patriarch, Big Daddy, and Big Daddy’s son, Brick the Thick, in the
flawed Broadway revival of “Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof” …
POSTSCRIPT: It is Saturday morning. Words that might as well
be emblazoned in Times Square — “we have here another depressing example of official
mendacity” — pop out at me from this morning’s lead editorial in The New York Times. Read it:
“The Fruits of Secrecy.” It’s about more of this
week’s lies, i.e., Bush’s broken vow to protect the environment.
