The Illusion and Reality of An Inconvenient Truth

"By 2010 we will need [a further] 50 million barrels a day. The Middle East, with two-thirds of the oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize lies." - US Vice President Dick Cheney, then Halliburton chief executive officer, London, autumn 1999


Another week in the empire passes while serving a life sentence in a decadent society so detached from “reality” that the partisan preachers of illusion were once again given a free ride to redefine “reality” without critical examination and not even subjecting it to ridicule and derision.

The media coverage of a national conservative conference is what passed for news worthy events in Yova’s world this week providing me with the opportunity to distinguish reality from delusion and to be the moment that is in a constant state of letting go of illusion’s grasp.

The masters of mass conditioning defined “reality” by presenting Tony Snow making a speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference in which he said “We didn’t create the war in Iraq. We didn’t create the war on terror.” For such unmitigated deceit he received a standing ovation from the true believers for the double speak without any challenge from the usual political analysts who pontificate during prime time.

The group think becomes more detached from reality when it ignores a more plausible perception of reality that includes the awareness that not only did we create the war in Iraq we planned it years before 9/11. It was certainly prominent in The Project for a New American Century yet the media censors itself by ignoring the facts.

While the increasingly delusional Dick Cheney denies that we created the war in Iraq as evidenced by his statement that “….the enemy we face in the war on terror has made Iraq, the primary front in that war,” is greeted by applause and laughter as well with his “this is an in-convenient truth” as he defines “reality” absent of any rational basis.

Depending on one’s perception it may or may not be true that we have “created the war on terror” but it is undeniable that we are participating in it and perpetuating it. Indeed a recently declassified National Intelligence Estimate concluded that the Iraq war is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and a new study found that the Iraq war has generated a stunning increase in the yearly rate of terrorist attacks more than one third world wide.

The punditocracy conveniently fails to define “conservative” and distinguish it from fascism thus permitting the existence of a political ideology marked by corporatism, nationalism, and militarism while praising the greatest generation for having defeated in the last century thus creating reality out of delusion and manipulating the masses to believe in such an absurdity that our corporatism, our nationalism, our militarism is “conservative” while the face of fascism stares back from the mirror.

The illusion is that these are fascists masquerading as conservatives. Real conservatives believe in the states rights that were violated during the 2000 election. Real conservatives would not be given a surplus and create a near trillion dollar deficit. Real conservatives would not engage in expanding the empire nor would they support big government.

The reality is that “our militarism” of “shock and awe” and “bring em on” which was used to insure that “our corporatism” profited once again when the new Iraq oil law was approved giving control of Iraq’s oil wealth to predominantly U.S. Big Oil executives and justified by “our nationalism” of “you’re either with us or against” is in fact fascism.

The irony is that the political party ascribing to this ideology is banned from participation today in the country which was held accountable for their preemptive strikes yet it is same ideology of blitzkrieg and shock and awe which is not only permitted, it in fact wields ominous political power in the nation that once sat in judgment of the crimes against humanity and crimes against peace that took place to expand an empire in the last century.

The inconvenient truth is that the war in Iraq was waged for oil and not to protect and defend Americans against terrorism. The inconvenient truth is that the war in Iraq created more terrorism. The inconvenient truth is that Exxon reported a 40 billion dollar profit in 2006. The inconvenient truth is that if we claim Iran supports terrorism we can invade and the price of oil will double. And the inconvenient truth is that over 3,100 American troops lives were wasted by the commander-in-chief fighting for fascism and not our freedoms which have declined under the new world order.