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With President Bush’s recent albeit brief side note admitting that the pre-war intelligence had been anything but, we can all ask ourselves if an apology to the American & Iraqi people forthcoming. Probably not – we’re just too deep into it.
Dick Cheney and his appetite for petro-revenge led us all straight down Blunder Boulevard. With Rove and Libby the willing front men in a PR campaign aimed at exploiting every American’s patriotism and sense of unease, Cheney managed to have his way not only with the war machine but also with the public trust. Not only have we been cheated like a cheap date, we’re left to pay the bill. Generations will have to pay for his tragically bad final solution.
While Bush has just enough of a soul to say that there were errors, I doubt that Cheney will ever bring his fat ass before the public with the news that he was wrong. He knew he was wrong, so it’s not news to him. It’s a big chunk of the truth that’s lodged somewhere in his endless digestive track.
Now, we’re all knee deep in the big muddy; how to extricate our pride from this disaster? How to focus on our own suffering citizens, who can’t rely on FEMA? How to deal with the bankrupt pension funds and the failing schools? How to deal with gun deaths & grinding poverty in our own backyards? How to ask for more when nothing is given in return?
Not since Malthus has a public speakerphone been so willing not only to blame the poor and the suffering for their plight; but shame on Cheney for recruiting from those very ranks the fodder he sends forth to wage his war of revenge.
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blunder boulevard, bush, cheney, fascism, iraq, malthus, poor, war
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Posted on 12/15/2005
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