The Furious Spinner

"They lied to us about the war!" I keep hearing that over and over, and it's really getting on my nerves. "You weren't listening," I say. Or you weren't paying attention. You can't claim ignorance because you stood there with your hands over your ears going, "Blah, blah, blah, I can't hear you!" And what did everyone think was going to happen if we kept up our dependence upon oil? I'm vaguely surprised The Emperor and his tailors haven't tried to takeover the entire Middle East.

Read Jim Kunstler's piece "They Lied to Us." He's got an interesting take about why we're at war with Iraq. He writes, in part, "If the American public could stand the truth, we would stop calling it the Iraq War and rename it the War to Save Suburbia....When the American people, Democrat and Republican both, decided to build a drive-in utopia based on incessant easy motoring and massive oil dependency, who lied to them? When tens of millions of Americans bought McHouses thirty-four miles away from their jobs in Boston, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Dallas, who lied to them? When American public officials adopted the madness of single-use zoning and turned the terrain of this land into a tragic crapscape of strip malls on six-lane highways, who lied to them? When American school officials decided to consolidate all the kids in gigantic centralized facilities serviced by fleets of yellow buses that ran an average of 150,000 miles per year per school, who lied to them? When Americans trashed their public transit and railroad system, who lied to them? When Americans let WalMart gut Main Street, who lied to them?"

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