The best policy

The fix is in. Always has been. Need an expert? There's one who for a price who will say just about anything you want him to say.

Our Deceiver in Chief is an expert at that. Don't believe me? The next time you see one of those military analysts talking about strategy and munitions and war and how great things are going, think about this.

Turns out there are no lengths this corrupt administration won't go to lie to the American public. Want a dose of 'truth'? Just buy it.

Early one Friday morning, they put a group of retired military officers on one of the jets normally used by Vice President Dick Cheney and flew them to Cuba for a carefully orchestrated tour of Guantánamo.

To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world.

Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.

Ah, truth bought and paid for by our corrupt administration. (And, of course, paid for with YOUR tax dollars). There's more, of course.

Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air.

Those business relationships are hardly ever disclosed to the viewers, and sometimes not even to the networks themselves. But collectively, the men on the plane and several dozen other military analysts represent more than 150 military contractors either as lobbyists, senior executives, board members or consultants. The companies include defense heavyweights, but also scores of smaller companies, all part of a vast assemblage of contractors scrambling for hundreds of billions in military business generated by the administration’s war on terror. It is a furious competition, one in which inside information and easy access to senior officials are highly prized.

Raise your hand of any of this really surprises you. Didn't think so.

Truth for sale to the highest bidder.

This administration (which John McCain would be happy to continue) has no reference point for truth. And no interest in finding it.

It's an embarrassment to the American people.

And so it goes.