Fudge numbers

The Independent reports on the latest Pentagon batch of lies. They're inflating (with helium) the numbers of trained Iraqi police and army. Predictable. I wonder at what point in the distant future, the excrement will contact the fan blades. Will the moment be captured in freeze frame? Slow-mo? What will the splatter pattern resemble? Who will be hit by the blow back? Who will be touched? Who will be protected? Does reality exist in this pseudo-hyper-strata of media-spin and PR deception? Of course. But will the reality principle ever poke through the curtain? Where's our Toto to sniff out the Wizard of Oz? Gil Scott Heron was probably right: the revolution will not be televised.