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By Terry Canaan
In the Iraq war, nothing is sacred. The Bush administration, deeply entrenched in their failed adventure, has always been shameless — the lies that led us here is proof enough of that.
For the Bush administration, there have always been two enemies to fight; whoever happens to be shooting at US personnel at the moment and those who’d dare suggest that maybe this big invasion wasn’t such a good idea.
Luckily for those of us who belong to the latter group, Bush can’t get away with shooting us too. So other methods, both hamhanded and subtle at once, have to be used to defeat the danger we pose to their war.
Being shameless, nothing is too low, too exploitative. There is no lower limit, other than what they can get away with. The Bush administration actually fights three wars — Iraq, Afghanistan, and the propaganda war against the truth. It’s that third war that this administration has fought the hardest and invested the most time waging. Truth is a rare commodity in the White House.
Being shameless, the neocon dreamers who started this whole thing are above nothing and the tragedies of the other wars become ammunition for the propaganda war. There is no grief that can’t be exploited, no fear that can’t be fostered, and no loss that can’t be turned to political gain. With an administration that politicizes everything, no exploitation is too crass.
In this war against the American people, there’s no such thing as “too low.” We have an example:
Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael A. Monsoor fought dozens of battles in the streets of Ramadi, shouldering his MK48 machine gun without complaint in the 130-degree heat of Iraq’s violent Anbar province.
In May 2006, only a month into his first deployment to Iraq, the 25-year-old Navy SEAL from Garden Grove, Calif., ran under fire into a street to drag to safety a wounded comrade who was shot in the leg, earning a Silver Star for his courage.

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