Dark Lord Denial
Posted by Paul at August 15th, 2006
The thing that’s partly disturbing about it is the fact that, the standpoint of our adversaries, if you will, in this conflict, and the al Qaeda types, they clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task. - Vice President Dick Cheney
You’d think Dick Cheney was talking about invading a Muslim country that hadn’t provoked us or something. But no, it’s nothing that terrorism inducing. He’s actually talking about the victory of Ned Lamont in the Connecticut Democratic primary race. What’s really glaring about his statement is that he speaks of “the will of the American people” and completing the (uncompletable) “task” (I thought the insurgency was in it’s last throes (?). Oh wait, that was two years ago…) He’s either ignorant or he’s evil (I’d bet the latter), because at least 60% of the American People (a majority, last time I took a basic math class), already want out of Iraq, and even more think we’re doing a bad job.
Let’s get it straight: Cheney is beholden to the military industrial complex and Big Oil, not Americans in general. If he thought about protecting Americans our borders would be as secure as the Iraqi oil fields. Five years after 9/11 incoming cargo would all be screened. To put an air marshall on every plane would cost about what a day of the Iraq war costs. To break up a terrorist cell in England, to find Bin Laden or his cohorts in Pakistan, to spread diplomacy in Muslim nations instead of war, would cost even less.
That the Vice President is even commenting on a Democratic primary senate race is strange enough; the audacity to link little known businessman Ned Lamont to future terrorism when there is probably no American more responsible for inspiring terrorism since 9/11 than Cheney himself, is beyond belief (and par for the course).
