Cheney validates al Qaeda
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that al-Qaeda wants nothing more than to keep us bogged down in Iraq while they enhance their propaganda and recruit a new generation of followers.
Anymore Dick Cheney lives in his own dream world and is getting downright Howard Hughesy about the war .. he'll soon be wearing Kleenex boxes on his feet.
What's up with all this sudden chest thumping? He laid low for months .. we didn't hear a peep out of him after the mid-term elections .. or when his good buddy Rummy got fired. Now suddenly we have to hear him bleating every day.
I fell off my chair when he said that the reason other countries were abandoning the US in Iraq was because the occupation was going so well.
Isn't it interesting that he's doing all this bloviating while he's OUT of the country?
I suspect that Cheney went to visit Howard in Australia because he's cut of the same cloth as Cheney .. they understand each other perfectly and belong to a right wing mutual admiration society.
BTW -- We should never forget that Cheney was initially asked to help Bush find a veep .. and golly gee whiz .. guess who Dick found?
It was Dick Cheney who helped turn our focus from Afghanistan to Iraq .. a brilliant war plan, diverting troops away from the hunt for Osama Bin Laden to go invade a country that Bush himself said had nothing to do with 911 .. can't wait to see what Dick Cheney has to say when the Taliban begins its spring offensive.
It was Dick Cheney who set Scooter loose on Valerie Plame, which has been conclusively proven, even if Deadeye Dick called the shots out of reach of the law.
It was Dick Cheney who helped keep Donald Rumsfeld at the DoD while our brave soldiers died one at a time, without proper body armor or Humvee armor.
Mr. Vice-President .. how long can you ignore that your plans and predictions regarding Iraq have been so utterly and completely wrong on every level? Is it any wonder that the majority of people in this country, YOUR country, do not trust you?
Just this week, we learned that Al Qaeda is back almost full force. Last fall we learned that our nation's 16 top intelligence agencies concluded that the Iraq war has hurt US efforts to fight terrorism .. while serving as a recruiting boon for jihadist terror networks.
Each day it becomes more apparent that the Iraq war is a crash-and-burn failure .. and there never was a real plan from the Bush/Cheney Administration to get us out of the quagmire.
So, what does Dick Cheney do? Runs to Australia and blasts Madam Speaker with an irrational and hysterical attack, questioning her patriotism and the patriotism of the entire Democratic Party and 70% of the American people by equating opposition to Bush/Cheney's ill-conceived escalation of the war with playing into the hands of al Qaeda.
Just a little reminder -- back when Cheney was dodging the draft, Murtha's priority was keeping his Marines alive.
Madam Speaker is saving for posterity (the 08 campaign) all of his outrageous pronouncements .. she wears his attacks as a badge of honor.
We really shouldn't bother about him .. his job is to toss raw meat to his right wing base periodically .. one can only hope he continues to devolve into a white minstrel show for the wingnuttery.
