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While they are torturing U.S. soldiers to death last week ...with upcoming U.S. November elections Cheeny explains that this is "Last Throes" <-- again, same as three years ago. |
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-elliott/*****-cheneys-last-throes_b_23411.html
***** Cheney's Last Throes
By Stephen Elliott
"I guess if I look back on it now, I don't think anybody anticipated
the level of violence that we've encountered."
- Vice President ***** Cheney, yesterday, Monday, June 19, 2006
There are men dragged across the streets of Fallujah, their charred
bodies hanging from a bridge.
A video captured on a cell phone shows a man's foot pressing against a
woman's belly, a geyser of blood erupting from her throat.
The Sadr militia pins the troops from their rooftop perch and this is
the beginning of the insurgency and the day Casey Sheehan dies.
Mission Accomplished flutters on the ship's deck and the President
poses for photo opportunities in his flight suit like a young child.
Later, he says the banner wasn't his idea.
How was he to know?
The atrocities at Abu Ghraib were an isolated incident in no way
indicative of a trickle down from the top.
He would love to close Guatanamo, he's just waiting for the right time.
Also, everyone thought there were weapons of mass destruction, there is
no one to blame.
Yesterday, Senator Frist said, "We are making progress. We can't just
cut and run. Surrender is not the answer."
We are making progress.
Progress toward what?
And if we surrendered, what would happen then, and who would we
surrender to?
If you're not fighting for anything in particular, is it still
surrender when you put down your guns and go?
Yesterday a translator was kidnapped and the bodies of two soldiers
were recovered.
They had been tortured horribly.
We have to honor their memory.
We have to find those weapons of mass destruction.
We have to win this war, stay the course.
The Uncle is not happy with America's policy, the right prepares their
attack.
Nick Berg's head is cut off and his father asks for peace.
Cindy Sheehan loses her son and is attacked by the friends of the
administration as she holds vigil outside the President's ranch.
The insurgency has been in its last throes for a while now.
We're winning, according to the VP, but maybe we underestimated how
Saddam's strong-arm tactics would continue to affect the Iraqi's
willingness to embrace democratic reforms, he says.
Blame it on the people, the culture, the history.
Anything but the planning, the soldiers, the planes, the bombs.
Anything but willful lies, intelligence manipulation, otherwise
intentions.
A writer is shot in the head at a road block.
2,500 American soldiers are killed.
30,000 Iraqis, perhaps many more.
Still, the insurgency is growing.
If insurgency is the right term.
No one is safe in this country.
Saddam is replaced with an Islamic theocracy at best, chaos, civil war
at worst.
Hundreds of billions of dollars gone to destroy a country.
Zarqawi is killed and Bush receives a bounce.
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As a student in the 1960s during the Vietnam War, Cheney received five
student deferments from the military draft.
What is intriguing about this utterly uncharismatic, efficient, hawkish
Vice President is the fact that he never served in the armed forces.
He says that he was generally supportive of the Vietnam war and opposed
to the demonstrators.
But his hawkishness didn't lead him to volunteer; instead he accepted
student deferments which allowed him to avoid military service.
All Cheney will say is, "As did most other Americans, I watched the
war from afar."
There remains something odd about this hard-line Cold Warrior's evasion
of what would seem to be his patriotic duty.
Harry
(see all of Harry Hope's excellent posts as they break, put this link
in your browser, use it, this is a search on google groups, on the
author Harry Hope sorted by date... nothing fancy):
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=&start=0&scoring=d&enc_author=-nIhFBQAAACtBOUGAhN9cSve8yYdFJBuOPANdqfI6prRsqjc7uCt1A&
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