Putting Down Our Dog and Thoughts on Scott McClellan

Somehow, this experience today is giving me a bit more tolerance. Even for Scott McClellan. I'm wondering. Is there a chance that he's actually doing this for a good reason? That he's really trying to set things right? We see how the right wing is all attacking him. What if other former Bush people develop guilt or wake up and decide to do the right thing? It would be nice if they were appreciated for telling the truth. They should assume that Bush's enablers and co-conspirators will attack them. They might even expect that the complicit mainstream media people who allowed them to lie, without challenging, without asking tough questions, might, as passive co-conspirators, attack them.

But if potential truth-tellers see that the reward for telling the truth is villification from everyone, even from those who seek the truth, then it will be that much more daunting for them to. Maybe we need to be thankful that McClellan is now telling more truth. Maybe we need to support this as the beginning of what will probably become a flood.

A lot of Bush people have left a lot of sh*t in the whitehouse, in Washington, throughout the US, in Iraq, and when you throw in the failure to do anything about global warming, the falling dollar, the credit crisis, well,  Obama and his team will be the ones to clean it up. Better if we at least reward those who relent and let the truth come free. In South Africa, after the end of apartheid, there was a long time when people were encouraged to tell the truth, without punishment. I don't think that Bush, Cheney and some of the highest level people should be absolved or given immunity, but perhaps we should start thinking of a way to get to the deeper truths, a way to start healing from all the criminality, all the abuses of the constitution, all the lies.

Enough people have already died.

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