Last night Ann Curry was interviewing the President of Sudan about the problems in Dafur. This is a region where genocide (the systematic killing of an entire ethnic group) is occurring. Ann Curry showed pictures and videos of what was happening and asked the President to explain this in light of his assertions that it wasn't happening.
The President answered that these pictures were no different than the pictures of Weapons of Mass Destruction that Colin Powell showed the UN. They were, as those were, lies and fabrications.
This is what happens when your child lies and this is what happens when the administration lies. The difference being that your child grows out of it - and had very little belief anyway. The United States has hundreds of years of international truth and goodwill that George Bush has thrown in the shitcan and we won't grow out of this.
And the US, who should be able to mobilize the international community to work for good, gets to stand aside as hundreds of thousands in Dafur are displaced, killed and raped as a method of war. And that, ladies and germs, is immoral.