The "He" is george dubya bush and the "we" is every American citizen; and there are really two important questions: Why does he believe he has to lie to us? And how stupid does he think we are? The first question is easy: He can't help it, it is genetic, it is how the bush family has done public business for well over a century and each member of the clan is spoon-fed it from birth.
The answer to the second question should make every American, left, right, center, independent, libertarian, or sun worshipper, madder than hell: He thinks every damn one of us has the brain-wave activity of a cypress stump! And do you know why? Because he and his family have been getting away with their crap for a very long time and almost never have any of them been called on their lying.
ReadThe New York Timespiece linked below and get mad -- or stay stupid. But, if you are reading these pages, I can pretty much assume you are in the former category. More's the pity that the right doesn't care about being lied to:
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 28 -- Over the past 30 days, more than 2,300 attacks by insurgents have been directed against civilians and military targets in Iraq, in a pattern that sprawls over nearly every major population center outside the Kurdish north, according to comprehensive data compiled by a private security company with access to military intelligence reports and its own network of Iraqi informants.
The sweeping geographical reach of the attacks, from Nineveh and Salahuddin Provinces in the northwest to Babylon and Diyala in the center and Basra in the south, suggests a more widespread resistance than the isolated pockets described by Iraqi government officials.
The type of attacks ran the gamut: car bombs, time bombs, rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades, small-arms fire, mortar attacks and land mines.
"If you look at incident data and you put incident data on the map, it's not a few provinces, " said Adam Collins, a security expert and the chief intelligence official in Iraq for Special Operations Consulting-Security Management Group Inc., a private security company based in Las Vegas that compiles and analyzes the data as a regular part of its operations in Iraq.
