Distraction

Did Condoleeza Rice actually call Iran a “central banker of terrorism” this morning on Meet the Press? Twice. Read today’s front-page report on Saudi Arabia’s contentious religious education in the Outlook section of the Washington Post (“This is a Saudi textbook,” by Nina Shea), for starters, and then recall that the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis. Talking with Russert, Condi just presented more egregious WMD posturing, casting about for red herrings again in yet another distracting ploy of warmongering. The real question is what is the Bush oligarchy trying to distract us from — themselves? Or the military industrial complex? Or would that be one and the same? As in the Central Bank of Temerity.