As you can see, the Truthspeaker has written very few entries since last November. There are two reasons for this. One is that there are other web sites out there doing a better job of what I was doing. MichaelMoore.com , for example, has links to pertinent news articles added daily. But mostly I have despaired that getting the facts out there does any good. Last November the American people had most of the facts available to them, if they looked. But 51% of the electorate either didn’t bother to inform themselves or, worse, willingly voted for a president who had lied the country into an unnecessary war.

What frustrates this writer even more is the lack of a political opposition to the president. The Democratic Party, for reasons I do not understand (but might speculate on in a later entry) refused to attack Bush where he was weakest. Even now, when all of the claims of Iraq war opponents have turned out to be true, there are only a handful of Democrats in Congress speaking out against Bush's strategically disastrous and morally repugnant foreign policy. No one is calling for Bush’s impeachment. Few even dare to call him a liar, despite his lies being preserved in print and on video. Bush abandoned the hunt for Osama bin Laden in order to start an unrelated war against an enemy that was not a threat. And millions of Americans, even the ones sporting bumper stickers vowing never to September 11, 2001, don't seem to care.

In a time when the facts no longer matter, writing about the truth seems pointless.

This site will still be here and it will still be updated. There will probably be less concentration on individual news stories and more on some ideas I have for strategy going forward. I may expand the topics discussed to include other issues I care about but haven't touched on here: gay rights; defending science education in public schools; protecting workers, farmers, and consumers from corporate thieves; and a few others.

Not that I expect it to do any good.
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The presidential panel charged with determining what went wrong with intelligence about Iraq released their final report. After many months of investigation, they have finally figured out what anyone with half a brain knew two years ago:

Panel: U.S. Ignored Work of U.N. Arms Inspectors

By the time President Bush ordered U.S. troops to disarm Saddam Hussein of the deadly weapons he was allegedly trying to build, every piece of fresh evidence had been tested -- and disproved -- by U.N. inspectors, according to a report commissioned by the president and released Thursday.

The work of the inspectors -- who had extraordinary access during their three months in Iraq between November 2002 and March 2003 -- was routinely dismissed by the Bush administration and the intelligence community in the run-up to the war, according to the commission led by former senator Charles S. Robb (D-Va.) and retired appellate court judge Laurence H. Silberman.