Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Only partly true

A US president lies about the military capabilities of another country and deceives the world into invading it (for years, the US and the president's friends supported the same nation in its own illegal wars, and even provided materials so that it could wage chemical warfare against its neighbours, and its own people).

The US president's lies are exposed

The US president's friends' lies are exposed

The US president refuses to step down

The US president rewrites US laws to make himself immune from prosecution

The US military's use of torture against citizens of the invaded nation is exposed

The US president refuses to step down (he has rewritten the US laws to make himself immune from prosecution)

The US president and his administration condone the use of torture in the pursuit of their illegal war

Scientific analysis suggests 1 million citizens of the invaded nation have died as a direct result of the illegal war

The US president refuses to step down (he has rewritten the US laws to make himself immune from prosecution)

The US president argues that "perhaps around 30,000" of the citizens of the nation he invaded, based on lies, have died

A journalist from the invaded nation throws a shoe at the US president, the president who lied, approved the use of torture, and murdered 1 million civilians

The journalist from the invaded nation is taken into custody by the military of the new regime imposed by the US president and his friends

The journalist from the invaded nation is allegedly beaten by the military of the new regime imposed by the US president and his friends

The journalist's ribs are allegedly broken, as is his hand, and he suffers internal bleeding at the hands of the new regime imposed by the US president and his friends

The US president makes a joke about not seeing the size of the shoes

The US president does not comment on the injuries suffered by the man who hurled the shoe, and US journalists do not question the US president about the injuries suffered by their fellow journalist

The US president does not comment on the fact that the man could face 7 to 15 years in prison for throwing a shoe at the man who has murdered 1 million civilians, and US journalists do not question the US president about the fate of the man

US journalists focus on how the man was free to throw a shoe at the US president

US journalists focus on how the man would have been executed under the previous regime (which was supported by former US presidents and the US president's friends)

US journalists do not comment on how the previous regime was supported by former US presidents and the current US president's friends

The invaded nation has no resources other than cabbages

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