The Big Yawn

Peter Daou notes that we've become so jaded the news that Bush was trying to plant evidence to justify going to war with Iraq is greeted with a collective yawn.

Maha writes: "When The Guardian reported last February about another Downing Street memo in which President Bush suggested luring Saddam Hussein into war by "flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft planes with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours," there was much scoffing and hoo-hawing from the Right. But today the New York Times reveals that the memo is real."

The implications are staggering, but the nation's collective response? A big yawn.

Maha quotes the Peking Duck, who explains: "In ordinary times, it would be a bombshell: A secret memo proves that our president told his people a series of lies leading to wanton and needless death and destruction. He had planned to wage his war no matter what, and was even prepared to create fake evidence to justify the invasion.... In ordinary times, he'd be impeached. But these aren't ordinary times. We are all so used to this sort of thing that it has almost no effect at all. It's just another day in the Age of Bush, where we're always winning the war and we're always right and no mistakes are ever made."