The Advisor – 16 September, 2006

2 Responses to The Advisor – 16 September, 2006

1. Hal Carpenter says:

   September 16, 2006 at 6:05 pm

   Col. Lang,
   That’s a miserable attempt on page 6 to tie the mess in Iraq to 9/11. The Zalmay Khalilzad quote at the bottom is particularly two faced.
   I wish the Army media would get the hell out of partisan politics.
   Hal Carpenter
2. Michael Murry says:

   September 18, 2006 at 7:18 am

   Mr. Carpenter,
   I share your distaste for those who knowingly and dishonestly conflate the events of 9/11/2001 with anything to do with Iraq, its government, or its people. The factual truth of things has never, ever, supported such transparently bogus propaganda. Yet still the shameless flogging of long-discredited lies persists in our civilian and military publications. That so many Americans continue to tolerate this managed mendacity would surprise and enrage me if I hadn’t already lived through the same sort of thing decades ago during the entire debacle of the American War on Vietnam. Long ago the American government also sent me abroad in search of monsters to destroy, stuffed full of the same kinds of lies and ignorance. The shock of learning the truth, naturally, left me bitter and skeptical to this day.
   Anyway, we could discuss in expository prose the many reasons why our government and military treat us citizens as the enemy they most fear, but for my part, I’ll just contribute a little poetic verse called:
   “Buyer’s Remorse”
   They go to their deaths and maiming
   Convinced of the lies they were told
   Like the Fig Leaf Contingent before them
   The Buy Time Brigade has been sold
   He sent them to die for nothing
   Who never himself had to serve
   Now he covers his ass in a dither
   While promising never to swerve
   They fill up their days with minutes
   Spent marking the time that remains
   Then extended or stop-lossed they re-up
   For him who has no cogent aims
   Their leader has gambled their fortunes
   A deck of marked cards up his sleeve
   So they pay with their lives to no purpose
   For him absent without their leave
   The last time we had the smart ones:
   The Best and the Brightest, they said
   But now our low aim only guarantees
   The Worst and the Dullest instead
   Campaigning, he primps and poses
   He always has done so before
   Hoping others accomplish his missions
   While he escapes out the back door
   Yet why seem surprised to see it?
   What the fools and the knaves have wrought
   Great Leader just did what he knew he could:
   He sold them the lies that they bought
   We keep getting rotten samples
   Of Lyndons and Dubyas and Dicks
   So unless we start having some hangings
   We’ll only get more of the pricks
   Remember old Mussolini?
   Hung upside-down by his own heels
   The Italians have since had no other
   Just think of it and the mind reels!
   Our government lies from habit
   Whoever speaks truth will get smeared
   On the home front the psy-ops continue
   With us as the enemy feared
   Bush told us to just go shopping
   He told us it wouldn’t take long
   “We had to hit someone,” Tom Friedman said
   For gratis we’d get to look strong
   Bush told us we had to hurry
   We couldn’t take time out to think
   He asked us for nothing but fear itself
   He told us his shit didn’t stink
   He didn’t need our permission
   Forgiveness he’d take later on
   So we shopped till we dropped on our plastic
   The same way he financed his con
   He sold us the war he wanted
   We purchased a pig in a poke
   Now he makes lame excuses undaunted
   By what has become his sick joke
   Osama can’t veto our laws
   Al Qaeda can’t change how we live
   Only we can abandon our freedoms
   They can’t take what we do not give
   Michael Murry, “The Misfortune Teller,” Copyright 2006

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