Wasting Lives, Money and Respect

There's not much more to be said than in this excellent post from Tom Engelhardt http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=171859. A larger version of the cartoon is here http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=22081.

As always, we're constantly being manipulated to believe what is not real, feel something counter to what is emotionally believable and having our fears played upon for bankrupt policy.

George Orwell would be proud.