Propaganda Remix Project. I've been meaning to share this link for some time now. Artist Micah Ian Wright has made creative use of WWII era propaganda posters, updating them for our domestic war on terrorism. Each is a "Message from the Ministry of Homeland Security." Along with his book (featuring a forward by Kurt Vonnegut), Wright's posters are also available as T-Shirts, mugs, stickers, etc. For those of you who missed my birthday last month, I kind of like this Woody Guthrie inspired design. (I take an X-Large.)
Assorted Goodies. Some fun and/or interesting links, many of which I'm posting so that I can delete them from my computer at work. Only one more day until I move into my new job!
And Just Because. It's been at least a month since I last quoted Robert Byrd (who really needs to collect these speeches in a little commemorative edition):
Although some timorous steps have been taken in the past few days to begin a review of this intelligence – I must watch my terms carefully, for I may be tempted to use the words "investigation" or "inquiry" to describe this review, and those are terms which I am told are not supposed to be used – the proposed measures appear to fall short of what the situation requires. We are already shading our terms about how to describe the proposed review of intelligence: cherry-picking words to give the American people the impression that the government is fully in control of the situation, and that there is no reason to ask tough questions. This is the same problem that got us into this controversy about slanted intelligence reports. Word games. Lots and lots of word games.
Well, Mr. President, this is no game. For the first time in our history, the United States has gone to war because of intelligence reports claiming that a country posed a threat to our nation. Congress should not be content to use standard operating procedures to look into this extraordinary matter. We should accept no substitute for a full, bipartisan investigation by Congress into the issue of our pre-war intelligence on the threat from Iraq and its use.
The purpose of such an investigation is not to play pre-election year politics, nor is it to engage in what some might call "revisionist history." Rather it is to get at the truth. The longer questions are allowed to fester about what our intelligence knew about Iraq, and when they knew it, the greater the risk that the people – the American people whom we are elected to serve – will lose confidence in our government.
Byrd delivered his speech to the Senate on Tuesday. Yesterday, the House rejected two calls for deeper probes into the issue. Nice.
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