It’s the Government of Nothing

Ryan C. Crocker, the American Ambassador to Iraq, Lied to the American People on September 11, 2007: “What’s happened over the last couple of years is stunning,” he said, describing his visits to neighborhoods that he last saw in 2003. “What has happened to middle-class, upper-class neighborhoods — the violence, the population shifts, the displacement, the tens of thousands of Iraqis that have been killed. You’re just not going to overcome that in a few weeks or indeed in a few months...

...If stability is to come, it will take years."

Crocker's loyalty to Bush's leadership is another in an eon's long history of the wrong stuff. For conservatives, loyalty is a big deal. For me, truth and justice is the big deal. There is no honor in serving a lie.

"It’s the government of nothing,” said Adel al-Subeihawi, a tribal leader on Sadr City ’s eastern edge. "No oil. No water. No electricity."