Is this funny or what? The Bush-Cheney cabal couldn't have caught bin Laden if his head was handed to them on a plate! They had 8 years to do it. They didn't come close. And now he has the gall to suggest that he could have and would have done it better.
Even funnier is Cheney whining that he and Bush never got credit for their part in the "puzzle." They did the intel for many years and that's what allowed Obama to send in the troops and take credit for the kill instead of pointing to Bush and Cheney and saying "These two wonderful guys made it all happen!"
Cheney is one of those folks who know how to use the "Big Lie": Just keep repeating the lie over and over again and eventually people will start believing it. Just keep saying we did it right. Iraq was necessary. We had to kill Saddam Hussein. We were forced to make a regime change. We did it for the Iraqis' own good. We went after the bad guys responsible for 9/11. Hussein had WMDs so we had no choice.
Maybe Cheney actually believes these things even if they have no connection with the truth, but I doubt that. Bush and Cheney screwed up this country so badly that we've still not recovered and may never recover for they set in motion dark forces which spawned, among other things, an anti-government attitude which filtered down to the hoi polloi and, in my opinion, played a part in the emergence of the Tea Party teapot crackpots as well as the resurgence of the neo-Nazi and other anti-government militarists around the country. They also put in place a tax structure that basically takes the rich out of the picture while the rest of us carry the burden on our backs.
Cheney is a little paranoid. He says that lately he's been fearful that terrorists could kill him through an electrical device pointed at his heart. That's just silly. Cheney was and is one of the best friends the terrorists ever had. His shenanigans as Vice President - attacking the wrong people for 9/11 which basically destroyed the country of Iraq - brought renewed hope and strength to the Islamist terrorists. Through the farcical Homeland Security Act, the terrorists reached one of their major goals which was to strike such a feeling of fear among our people we would gladly give up our freedoms to be "safe." Witness the number of cameras on our street corners and the police departments outfitted in military regalia, all paid for by Homeland Security, and then re-read George Orwell's book, "1984."
Finally, Cheney is a war criminal. He was part of that triumvirate which lied us into the war in Iraq. Over 4,000 of our young men and women died as a result of their lies. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died. Our Iraq/Afghanistan veterans are committing suicide at a terrible rate and many thousands more sit in wheelchairs or hospital beds crippled for life.
AND ALL OF THIS WAS TOTALLY UNNECESSARY AS IRAQ AND SADDAM HUSSEIN HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ATTACK BY SAUDI ARABIAN MEN ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001!!!!
Cheney and Bush and Rumsfeld, along with several others, should have been tried for war crimes by an international tribunal. Not only did they start an unnecessary war in preemptive fashion based upon facts they knew to be false, but they authorized, in violation of the Geneva Convention, the use of torture.
It is time, I think, that the media decline to interview or publish what this despicable man, with blood dripping from his hands and lies slithering through his lips, has to say about anything.
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It's sickening that tv and radio outlets have this guy on as if he isn't a horrible criminal and treat him with respect as some kind of elder statesman.
IT will not change until somehow the opposition learns how to fight back effectively.
Rove, the Koch brothers, Limbaugh and a host of others are not geniuses, but are willing to lie and buy good talent who know how to use lies and propaganda to sway a large ignorant audience.
The huge amount of money in politics today makes it difficult to function effectively as those with less money cannot compete.
We have also changed the media rules and how it was regulated so as to not own an entire market.
It would help if the TV and Radio commentators would ask tough questions and expose the lies of those who would try to run things, but they too are paid to do what they do.
With a polarized audience, we talk past each other or never reach a full audience.
The low voter turnout proves the public has not become educated enough to demand better coverage that interests them. Limbaugh and others, on both sides do have a large and devoted audience.
It is also apparent that we are not educated as to how government works, so we think our representatives and our president have more power than they have.
The electorate is not aware enough to ask the questions needed and loses interest or becomes convinced they cannot change things.
Real discussions are rare today. People that know the names of entertainers but do not know who their representatives are.
Yet they vote anyway or else skip voting altogether. Either way makes it difficult for a democracy to function.
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