Tell me lies about Vietnam

Tell me lies about Vietnam
Adrian Mitchell

Listening to all the Bush-supporting Swift Boat veteran's lies-- hearing these men attempt to erase settlesd (unsettling) history--- I am reminded of a poem by Adrian Mitchell...

I was run over by the truth one day.
Ever since the accident I've walked this way
So stick my legs in plaster
Tell me lies about Vietnam.

Heard the alarm clock screaming with pain,
Couldn't find myself so I went back to sleep again
So fill my ears with silver
Stick my legs in plaster
Tell me lies about Vietnam.

Every time I shut my eyes all I see is flames
Made a marble phone book and I carved all the names
So coat my eyes with butter
Fill my ears with silver
Stick my legs in plaster
Tell me lies about Vietnam.

I smell something burning, hope it's just my brains.
They're only dropping peppermints and daisy-chains
So stuff my nose with garlic
Coat my eyes with butter
Fill my ears with silver
Stick my legs in plaster
Tell me lies about Vietnam.

Where were you at the time of the crime?
Down by the Cenotaph* drinking slime
So chain my tongue with whisky
Stuff my nose with garlic
Coat my eyes with butter
Fill my ears with silver
Stick my legs in plaster
Tell me lies about Vietnam.

You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,
You take the human being and you twist it all about
So scrub my skin with women,
Chain my tongue with whisky
Stuff my nose with garlic
Coat my eyes with butter
Fill my ears with silver
Stick my legs in plaster
Tell me lies about Vietnam

*Cenotaph - war memorial in London

First read out in Trafalgar Square in 1964. Read again Saturday 13 October 2001 at the Anti-War demonstration in London.

Mr. Cleland Goes to Crawford

Mr. Cleland Goes to Crawford


Mr. Cleland goes to Crawford.

Bush hides behind the shades.

Bushites run on nothing but negativity

Bushites run on nothing but negativity

Poor things. It's really all they've got

Tucker Carlson was on CNN today saying that Kerry has no message.

This is all the Bushites have to run on, my friends.

Sheer negativity.

They can claim no positive American progress of their own.
There is no badge of honor for them to wear so instead they create, in their own fantasy world, a banner of shame to try to place on Senator Kerry's chest.

The funny thing is, every time Paul Begala tried to talk about the past four years, Tucker Carlson would loudly whine over Begala's points.

The past four years will bring Bush down in November, no matter how much his campaign tries to change the subject.

That's precisely what "Anybody But Bush" is all about.
It's a steamroller of a movement.

I'm sure John Kerry won't mind a bit when "Anybody but Bush" translates to "President Kerry" on November 3rd.

Eliminating 527s would limit free speech

Eliminating 527s would limit free speech

No wonder the Bush team wants to do away with them. Bushites aim to limit public opinion just like they screen Bush rally attendees.

Marc Racicot was seen today on CNN with Judy Woodruff saying it's a "complete fabrication" that there is any connection between the Bush campaign and the Swift Boat ads. He takes a lot of Americans for complete idiots, I guess.

Racicot casts the red herring--appealing to the Kerry campaign to denounce all 527 ads---to do away with them altogether.

Once again, we see the Bushites stepping on the toes of citizen's 1st Amendment protections for their own selfish political relief.
They want to hide from 527-attacks on Bush's actual record, which is the very dismal thing they wish to keep out of the public eye in this campaign.

Supporting 527s would expose the cracks in his terrible record and his flimsy logic.
Eliminating 527s would gag U.S. citizens.

What is more important to Bush?
Hiding the record or protecting citizens' rights?

I don't have to tell you.
You're no dummy.
You already know the answer.

Using near-psychotic control-tactics on the American public in the name of politics, the Bush campaign is holding the further spreading of complete slander over Senator Kerry's head unless he agrees to get in bed with them on the idea of eliminating the free speech that the 527-option provides.

Bush wants to limit the great American discussion.

This is evil, my friends...pure and simple.

Kerry to Bush: Time to Take Charge

Kerry to Bush: Time to Take Charge

John Kerry believed Donald Rumsfeld should have resigned from his position long ago.
From what we can glean from Kerry's latest comments, he wonders when the hell Bush will take charge as an intelligently decisive Commander-in-Chief.
(They aren't Kerry's words, but it isn't hard to get his stately drift).
U. S. soldiers in the lower ranks have been scapegoated in the Abu Ghraib scandal and the public knows it.
Kerry recommends a chartered Congressional demand for an Independent Commisssion because of the simple fact that accountability for Abu Ghraib runs through the civilian command, and it is absolutely left out of the Schlesinger and Maj. Gen. George Fay reports.
Bush's campaign spokesman says Kerry will say anything that's politically advantageous.
While that may be a natural consequnce of a political campaign, no one could argue (unless they were politically defensive), that Senator Kerry is making sense.

Bush Attorney Benjamin Ginsberg Resigns Too Late

Bush Attorney Benjamin Ginsberg Resigns Too Late

We already know what he's done, in cahoots with the Bushites.
He joins retired Air Force Col. Ken Cordier in the Bush campaign's Hall of Shame.
Another Bush connection confirmed.
How very ugly.

It's too late for the resignation to mean anything at all.

He may as well have stayed because anyone who believes the Bushites were unaware would have to be an imbecile.