The Waterboard Express

I’m starting my own wish list of people I’d like to see waterboarded; Dick Cheney tops this list. He talks a whole lot of shit for someone who spent the entire Vietnam War dodging the draft.

The rest of the hard-liners advocating torture probably couldn’t spend five seconds getting waterboarded and this includes Cheney, Condoleeza Rice and W himself. If President Obama continues to back pedal on his campaign promises regarding the war on terror, he might very well be standing with these people but that is another story for another day.

Remember back in April when Cheney damn near boasted about his approval of waterboarding in an interview with ABC News:

I supported it. I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn’t do. And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it. It’s been a remarkably successful effort, and I think the results speak for themselves.

It’s not the terrorists or terrorist threats that scare me, it’s people like Dick Cheney. He’s scarier than a musty room infested with a zillion cockroaches. The man makes me break out in hives.

Forget about the enemies outside our borders, I’m more concerned about people like Dick Cheney who use lies, fear and divisiveness to promote their own interests.

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At Least He Said Something Nice

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Caricature of Dick Cheney, originally uploaded by josh.ferrin.

I have the same feeling that I think many Americans have, that it’s really remarkable that — what we’re going to do here in a few days, is swear in the first African-American president of the United States.

The evil, outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney had some kind words about Barack Obama. In an interview with CNN report Wolf Blitzer, Cheney appeared to show a kinder, more gentle persona when discussing the upcoming inauguration and our President-elect. He’s only got nine more days in office anyway, he can’t be the face of evil forever.

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Dumbassness 24/7/365/i*: Vice President Dick Cheney

This is the face of evil. Our draft dodging, war-mongering, bunker burrowing Vice President Dick Cheney. In a 2004 speech at Davos, Switzerland he said:

“The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations’ wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of anti-Western hatred are over.”

All we need to do is change anti-Western to anti-Islamic and he’s described the past eight years of the Bush-Cheney policies. Our human rights have been trampled and whatever wealth we’ve accumulated has evaporated under the cloud of deregulation. Thanks, Dick.

*-infinity, inescapable, banished to dumbassness for eternity

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Dick Cheney, the Arrogant

Vice President, his lordliness Dick Cheney emerged from his secret bunker last week to do some bitch-slapping. He made visits to Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel spewing his ‘it’s my way or the highway’ diplomacy to all of our minions. His timing was perfect; we’re going into year six in Iraq, our 4,000th soldier has been killed in combat and more than 80,000 others have died there.

In spite of the fact that we live in a democracy, he has done everything in his power to circumvent the checks and balances that are supposed to prevent one branch of government from becoming too powerful. He doesn’t care that the majority of Americans think the war in Iraq was a mistake.

If you’re not outraged about this, you should be. Cheney’s detached arrogance is beyond comprehension. Am I the only one who can’t wait for him, George W. Bush and the rest of their administration to get the hell out of office?

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Scott McClelland in Wonderland?

Although I have no intentions of reading his new book, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClelland finally admits that he was mislead about Iraq by President Bush, Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby and Karl Rove. Well, I’ve got news for McClelland, he wasn’t the only one. Bush and his band of merry men, deceived the American people.

I know McClelland (and the rest of the media) isn’t going to call President Bush a liar, but I will. Why are people are afraid to hold the president accountable for his lies? Obviously no one because rarely do you see anyone challenging his shifty position on Iraq or anything for that matter. When Bill Clinton was president, everybody called him a liar and an adulterer. President Bush certainly has more blood on his hands than President Clinton; his lies have cost many people their lives in Iraq, Afghanistan and even Louisiana.

In excerpts from his upcoming book, What Happened, McClelland comes off like a naive, idealistic sap but I’m not buying his carefully, crafted naivete; he’s just trying to sell some books. One of the funniest quotes in the book is about the outing of Valerie Plame as a C.I.A. agent to the press. When questioned about the source of the leak, he says:

I’ve known Karl for a long time, and I didn’t even need to go ask Karl, because I know the kind of person that he is, and he is someone that is committed to the highest standards of conduct.

Not only was Rove involved but so was the President, Vice President and Scooter Libby. If I recall, President Bush promised to hunt down the blabbermouth and have their head on a stick or something like that. If what McClelland said is true, we need to start with the deceitful, duplicitous President first. I’m tired of his lies and hypocrisy. He’s played us (the American people) like a bunch of bobble-headed saps with his $4.00 a gallon gasoline, phony patriotism and unhealthy obsession with all things O.J.

The countdown to the 2008 Presidential elections has begun, at least for me anyway.

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Link of the Day: Rumsfeld Indicted in France

Former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld was recently indicted by the French government for torture for his role in authorizing torture at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and in Iraq. That’s some of the best news I’ve heard in awhile but it remains to be seen whether he will actually go to trial. Whether he does or not, it’s a step in the right direction. Rumsfeld along with the rest of the Bush administration cronies need to be held responsible for their decisions. Lying about the facts shouldn’t absolve Rumsfeld, Bush or Cheney of anything.

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Link of the Day: Amnesty International’s Report 2007

If you don’t believe fear is being used as justification for more military spending, arming our allies and fighting against al-Qaeda and other extremist groups, think again. All you need to do is listen to any speech by Dick Cheney and you’ll get the picture.

Ever since 9/11, fear has permeated our society, culture and politics. Lies on top of lies have been used to justify our invasion and occupation of Iraq and our invasion of Afghanistan. Since we declared our war on terror, we’ve used this as an excuse not adhere to the Geneva Convention protocols. We hold alleged enemy combatants in Guantanamo for years on end while they have no opportunity to know what the charges are against them. I’m not even going to talk about the CIA black sites in Europe where alleged terrorists are held or our newest outpost in Ethiopia where we detain, question and sometimes torture suspected terrorists.

Amnesty International has published a report about the politics of fear being used by democracies, despots and belligerents alike. If you don’t think the US is waging a war against Islam, think again. If you don’t think al-Qaeda is waging a war against innocent people and the heathens in the West threatening Islam, you’d better ask somebody. If you don’t think fear is used by governments in China, Zimbabwe and Sudan to control, brutalize and frighten their own citizens, you haven’t been keeping up.

Fear is a pervasive part of our culture now but for all the wrong reasons. Instead of finding ways to get along, we find ways to antagonize each other. While all of the posturing and chest-beating is going on, it is the innocent citizens who are paying the cost for the politics of fear. We’re the ones getting blown up, displaced, murdered and who knows what else while Cheney gives another speech and those al-Qaeda nitwits issue another communique.

I’m done talking about this but you can check out Amnesty International’s Report 2007 here.

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Dick Cheney Does West Point

Vice President Dick Cheney is loose again. This time he had a captive audience of graduating cadets at West Point. Spreading his usual warmth and good cheer, he couldn’t help but remind the cadets about the imminent threat we all face from terrorists. Here’s a snippet from his commencement speech that also explains why I think the man is scarier than the grim reaper:

The terrorists know what they want and they will stop at nothing to get it. By force and intimidation, they seek to impose a dictatorship of fear, under which every man, woman, and child lives in total obedience to their ideology. Their ultimate goal is to establish a totalitarian empire, a caliphate, with Baghdad as its capital. They view the world as a battlefield and they yearn to hit us again. And now they have chosen to make Iraq the central front in their war against civilization.

Keep in mind that Cheney served nary a day in the military. He was a recipient of five deferments from 1959 to 1962 that allowed him to skate through the Vietnam War era without being drafted. You’d never know it from all the macho, he-man posturing he does every time he makes a public appearance.

He’s guilty of the same things he accuses the terrorists of. I don’t know what he’s trying to prove running around spreading lies and trying to scare the crap out of people. The fact that we invaded Iraq without securing the borders is one of the main reasons why the country has been unstable for the past four years. Our poorly planned mission resulted in Iraq becoming the battlefield and breeding ground for jihadists from all over the Middle East. He’s got the fear tactics mastered.

He might want to lean back on those comparisons between a caliphate and totalitarianism. Blind submission and concentrating power among a small group of elites, sounds like some of the tactics Cheney and the rest of the Bush administration have used to justify their position on Iraq and the war on global terrorism.

I’d say those terrorists have nothing on Cheney. Under the guise of the Patriot Act, the Bush administration has needlessly poked, pried and spied their way into the lives of American people. What could be more frightening than someone who does not respect the Constitution or Bill of Rights?

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Out, out Cheney!

Yesterday in Iraq, amid chants like “No, no America” and “Out, out occupiers”, Cheney encouraged the ineffective, U.S. controlled Iraqi government to behave and settle their differences. Like the angry pimp whose prostitute has shorted him for the last time, Cheney threatened the Iraqis with some dire consequences if they don’t clean up the mess. Wherever he goes, his time warp goes with him. He lives in some kind of outdated, time capsule that he ventures out of occasionally to amuse us with some interesting but untrue facts about the Iraq war, global warming or some other ridiculousness.

In the second of his unannounced visits to Iraq this year, Cheney was there to bitch slap Nuri al-Maliki and the rest of the U.S. anointed Iraqi leadership into doing the impossible, controlling the chaos in their own country. To complete the pimps and hos analogy, everyone knows you can’t put the bottom bitch “on the track” and expect her to earn like she’s today’s “turnout”, it just doesn’t happen that way. In this case, al-Maliki is the bottom bitch and whatever credibility he had with the Iraqi people was gone years ago.

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Ann Coulter "Outs" John Edwards

I am not a fan of Ann Coulter. I’ve heard about some of the ridiculous things she’s said but haven’t paid her much attention until now. Just from looking at the video, she appears to have the mentality of a 13 year-old girl. Calling John Edwards a “faggot” gets her attention. I gather she doesn’t like him but is unable to explain why.

In true mean girl fashion, Coulter has resorted to name-calling. Faggot!? Is she serious? I’m waiting to hear which of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) attendees, among them Vice President Dick Cheney, Presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rudy Guiliani is going to denounce her unseemly comments. Coulter is neither cute nor funny.

As for John Edwards, his campaign is using Coulter’s slur as an opportunity to raise $100,000. If anything, Coulter has given Edwards’ campaign some serious publicity, she has piqued interest in a Democratic candidate who currently trails Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

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