Bush & trailer trash WAS Re: De Morgan

[pynchonoid]

Mr T: 
> the texts I've been citing with Google 

And a great job you've done with your googling, T. 
Nobody can ever take that away from you. 

"There is always some agency like the Ministry of
Truth to deny the memories of others, to rewrite the
past. It has become a commonplace, circa 2003, for
government employees to be paid more than most of the
rest of us to debase history, trivialise truth and
annihilate the past on a daily basis."
--Thomas Pynchon, Foreword to _1984_

Speaking of funny stuff about government lies on the
Web today:

[...] On Sunday, Condoleezza Rice admitted that
President Bush had used a forged document in his State
of the Union speech to prove Iraq represented a
nuclear threat: "We did not know at the time — maybe
someone knew down in the bowels of the agency — but no
one in our circles knew that there were doubts and
suspicions that this might be a forgery. Of course it
was information that was mistaken." 

United Nations inspectors, belatedly presented with
the same document, realized within hours it was a
crude forgery. [...] 

<http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=15129&CFID=7781958&CFTOKEN=15012110>

Beware the TMD
Trailers of mass destruction, at home and abroad.

Trailers were once useful vehicles that did good
things. In the wake of the Bushies’ desperate search
for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, trailers have
become sinister machines of the modern roadway.

As you may recall, Colin Powell talked about mobile
bio labs while standing before the U.N. last February,
offering up grainy photos that he claimed depicted
evil goings-on occurring in tractor trailer-like
vehicles across Iraq. It sounded not unlike a
high-concept Hollywood farce: scientists concocting
deadly biological agents while trucking down the
highways and byways from Baghdad to Basra. Sort of The
Nutty Professor meets Convoy–with a dash of Arabian
Nights thrown in. This was no hunch or guess, Powell
said. They had the goods.

"My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed
up by sources, solid sources," he assured the U.N. in
a speech that was pivotal in the administration’s
march toward the invasion of Iraq. "These are not
assertions. What we’re giving you are facts and
conclusions based on solid intelligence… We have
firsthand descriptions of biological weapons factories
on wheels."

Powell then went on to describe "mobile production
systems mounted on road trailer units"–18 of them, to
be precise–that "can produce enough dry biological
agent in a single month to kill thousands upon
thousands of people."

Since the first Saddam statue toppled over in Baghdad
last month, the search for the monstrous trailers has
taken on mythic proportions, with sightings just about
every day. This is the Bigfoot of our time, complete
with murky pictures and composite sketches, and
witnesses who emerge from the shadows with frightful
stories that never quite gel. But the Bushies and the
American media have their asses on the line with this
one. They’ve got to produce those damned trailers of
mass destruction no matter how incredulous it all
sounds. 

The CIA’s website is starting to look like the Psychic
Friends Hotline site. Last week, they were touting the
two "probable" bio labs. And it does look pretty
convincing–if you’re seven years old. Click through
and you’ll find color drawings of the trailers that
Colin Powell imagined when he was at the U.N., and
then right next to them you’ll see photographs of the
actual trailers they claim to have found last week,
which have an uncanny resemblance to the color
drawings. Imagine.

The trailers they found last week are no different
from those they seem to find every week–discoveries
that get front-page attention when they occur, but
hardly any attention when they later turn out to be
run-of-the-mill trailers. CIA officials touted last
week’s finding as major, but when pushed on the
evidence, they caved.

"There were inconsistencies in the evidence and a lack
of hard proof, like the presence of pathogens in
trailer gear," the New York Times reported, making you
wonder why this is even a story. "The officials
acknowledged that they had discovered neither
biological agents nor evidence that the equipment had
ever been used to make germ weapons."

Then what makes them smoking guns? "The best evidence
of that," CIA officials told the Times, "was the
trailers’ close resemblance to prewar descriptions of
mobile germ plants given by Iraqi sources."

In other words, they looked like Powell’s cartoons.

To help the government find these trailers of mass
destruction, I conducted my own investigation.
Herewith is my report to John Ashcroft, the Pentagon
and the CIA:

The ease with which people can now acquire trailers on
the open market is horrifying and is a major concern
for national security. Clearly the government must
enact trailer control laws, so as to stop the rampant
flow of trailers throughout this country and the
world. Case in point: Discount-Trailors.com. On this
site, you can buy a wide range of trailers. Cargo
trailers. Fishing-boat trailers. Golfcart trailers.
ATV transport trailers. There is even evidence that
Iran and Syria have made purchases from
Discount-Trailors.com: The company claims to ship
anywhere.

We must also investigate the InterClean Equipment
Company, which also advertises on the web. It is my
hunch that InterClean is into trailer
laundering–literally. It’s no coincidence that none of
the trailers we are finding have any traces of
biological agent and that InterClean cleans most
trailers in the world, according to the company.
According to their website: "The largest trucking
companies in the world regularly use InterClean
systems to successfully wash their fleets. All these
systems are unattended, automated and require no
detailing. Several of these InterClean systems exceed
7000 washes monthly, with practically no maintenance
required. InterClean commercial truck washes can wash
all vehicles that cannot be washed by conventional
commercial car washes." 

My surveillance of the Lake Orion Trailer Park in Lake
Orion, Michigan, also revealed highly unusual
activity, with people entering and leaving the
trailers on a daily basis–sometimes hourly. It should
be noted that this is only one of tens of thousands of
trailer parks across America. These may very well be
"sleeper cells."

>From my car outside the Lake Orion Trailer Park I
observed large, overweight individuals leaving their
trailers and getting into their cars throughout the
day. It was the uniformity of their behavior that was
highly suspicious: Almost to a one, they went to
Wal-Mart. It is well-known that Wal-Mart sells
numerous items–from ammonia to ammunition–that can be
used for explosives and biological agents. In his next
report to the U.N., if Secretary Powell really wants
to make a case, he should present some of the photos I
have taken of these individuals carrying many
bags–white, plastic bags–from their cars to the
trailers after they have returned from Wal-Mart, often
by cover of night.

As Powell told U.N. ambassadors in February, "These
are not assertions. What we’re giving you are facts
and conclusions based on solid intelligence." What
more do you need to know?

Michelangelo Signorile hosts a national radio show
each weekday from 1 - 4 p.m. EST on Sirius Satellite
Radio, stream 149. He can be reached at
www.signorile.com 

<http://www.nypress.com/16/23/news&columns/signorile.cfm>
Volume 16, Issue 23 




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