Yesterday, Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on Meet The Press. I was unable to view the show, due to health concerns. (Listening to Cheney, Bush, or Rumsfeld tends to make me apoplectic and sick to my stomach, and I did not wish to disgorge my morning repast.) Nonetheless, had I been able to tolerate bearing witness to the bleepin’ Veep’s appearance, it would not have surprised me in the least if—at some point during his interview, long after I had begun to actively dissociate—Cheney had pulled a venomous snake out of his suit pocket, bitten its head off, and then morphed into Satan himself. (I imagine NBC would have been overjoyed to have such an exclusive.) I truly find the man intolerable and despicable—and that’s on a good day. Of all the purveyors of Bushwa, Cheney is the most arrogant and unapologetic. I can only imagine how comforting it must be to possess such utter certitude in oneself and one’s actions. But, then, I suppose that a paucity of doubt might be expected in one so narcissistic and morally impoverished.
In any regard, the Vice-ridden President did not disappoint, availing himself of the spotlight to spin the goodness of the war and the badness of the terrorists and, of course, their appeasers. Indeed, as reported in today’s Washington Post, Cheney again inferred that those who oppose the Iraqi conflict or seek a timeline for troop withdrawal are weak and misguided and, in effect, supporting the enemy:
War’s Critics Abetting Terrorists, Cheney Says
Vice President Cheney offered a veiled attack yesterday on critics of the administration’s Iraq policy, saying the domestic debate over the war is emboldening adversaries who believe they can undermine the resolve of the American people.
“They can’t beat us in a stand-up fight — they never have — but they’re absolutely convinced they can break our will, [that] the American people don’t have the stomach for the fight,â€? Cheney said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.â€?
The vice president said U.S. allies in Afghanistan and Iraq “have doubts� the United States will finish the job there. “And those doubts are encouraged, obviously, when they see the kind of debate that we’ve had in the United States,� he said. “Suggestions, for example, that we should withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq simply feed into that whole notion, validates the strategy of the terrorists.� [full text]
Gee, I thought that getting sucked into an unwinnable conflict in the Middle East that further polarizes the Muslim world and fuels the fires of extremism was the “strategy of the terrorists.� My bad. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to worship before the porcelain altar.
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After viewing the President’s 911 speech, I felt compelled to place those events in an historical context. At the conclusion of the first Gulf War, the decision of Bush, the father, to spare Baghdad and Hussein was clearly correct in order to avoid the creation of a power vacuum that would have been filled by a resurgent Iran.
Ignoring that prescient precedent of his father, and possibly motivated by Hussein’s clumsy plot to assassinate the first President Bush, “W” and his cohort of clueless neo-cons initiated the invasion of Iraq. This has resulted in accomplishing precisely what his father strove so carefully to avoid: the nightmare of a newly empowered, nuclear bound, militant theocracy in Iran, coincident with the insurgent debacle in Iraq attracting an endless supply of Islamic terrorists.
How sad that the strategic errors of the son have destroyed what the father had the foresight to anticipate.
Neither Bush & Cheney get the message from the American People that the war in Iraq was uncalled for and that they should have sent the troops to Afghanistan and caught Osama Bin Laden and his henchmen. The President in his speech used the same words that he used back 2003 about Osama Bin Laden that he wasn’t worried about Bin Laden just before we invaded Iraq. Bush even let the Bin Ladens and some Saudi’s get out of the country when all the Air Lines were grounded. Explain that to the American Public Mr. Bush and see if you blame the victims once again for the attack on 09-11-06. If anyone disagrees with you on anything you called them a Nazi or Facists. You are more like the Nazi’s and the Facists. As far as Iran goes this all started back in 1915 by the British and BP Petroleum Corporation. BP started by the Bristish government did not have any oil wells or petroleum reserves and the British and the United States Navies had just completed converting there combat ships to oil fired boilers from coal fired boilers to make steam for the ships engines as more economical and efficient to use. Anyway the British sent a Petroleum Engineer out in Iran to look for oil near the Iranian and Russian Border. there were no communications there in those days not even a telephone so all communications were by camels and written notes. BP ran out of money and sent a message to the engineer drilling for oil near that border to stop drilling as there was no more money to continue work there. In the meantime the engineer brought in a gusher and thats where BP got started. This went on until 1951 when the Iranian Government got fed up with the British and Kicked them out of the country. The British came to the United States and asked us if we could help them out and we said yes and put the Shah in power and armed them with Planes, ships and guns etc. He in turn knew there was a growing unrest in his country and sent his secret police to come in the middle of the night and take those that dissented from his government and torture and kill them. That went on until the Iranians took over our embassy in 1979 and held the employees there as hostages until President Reagan was elected. Then we backed the iraqi’s in there war with Iran and we are still the hated ones because of how we unstablized these two countries and it has been down hill ever since.