When you dont' tell us the whole truth, we never really know what America stands for and we ourselves are America. Our reputation internationally is fueled by the actions of our government, while we are responsible (in part) for electing the officials, once elected we have no choice in any matter. We are America, yet our image is created by the Machine and we are ill equipped to stop it. "She speaks unrehearsed, Language from the skin" ~A fake, a phoney, she speaks unrehearsed yet she did rehearse, she is a spokeswoman after all. Language from the skin; so natural, so honest (or so it seems). "Painting shadows on the faces of the dead" ~ This is so wrong; Taking away their identity. They become dead soldiers, not your dead friend Tony. Just a nameless number with no face. It takes away the sting of war and of death. Especially if its someone connected to you. "In front of their windows" ~ As the families watch from the homes they used to share with the deceased. They are lied to and minimalized. As though it was their duty to give their beloved child to a war which was perpetrated unethically, through lies.