SOME PEOPLE SAY THE DUMBEDEST THINGS —————- by Steve Nadis
Can you believe the words that come out of Dick Cheney’s mouth? (And he was supposed to be the smart one on the ticket.) That guy will say absolutely anything.The other day, he said the detainees in Guantanamo were “certifiable bad guys,” as if he’d met them all personally and could attest to their deficiencies in character. (William Bennett, perhaps, passed judgment on their amorality.) Cheney was “offended” by suggestions that the Guantanamo camp–where torture is readily acknowledged–is a gulag. And the ridiculous statements he’s made, too many to recount, justifying the invasion of Iraq and treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, would be laughable, were it not for the tremendous loss of life and suffering that has occurred on all sides. Dick, I’ve got a proposition for you: Given that you’re supposedly a person of some responsibility, why don’t you think for a second before you go spouting off?
The depressing part, is that he and Karl Rove probably do think, a lot in fact, and the lies that come out of his mouth are calculated and scripted down to the last syllable. Worst of all, he not only gets away with this garbage, it actually works. So maybe all of us need to make a point of thinking before we open our ears.
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15:25:52
Cheney IS the smart one on the ticket. And I think what I find most frightening about him is that he is one of these guys that will tell the most obvious lies with complete impunity. If people are being tortured by the U.S., he will say "It’s not happening." And it works! Why? Because it puts the onus on the accusers to come up with absolute proof that he’s lying–which is almost impossible to do. And in the few instances where he’s been caught, he’s simply denied the evidence, or made it look as if none of it really matters.
Believe me, Cheney is as Machiavellian as they come. And between him and Karl Rove, it’s amazing we don’t have brown-shirts marching down our streets.
You could be right. And then there’s his charisma…
What I can’t figure out is why they haven’t been prosecuted for *something* yet. I mean, there has been so much illegal shit you would think that they would have slipped up by now.
It really is amazing all the stuff they get away with–especially when you consider the stuff that Clinton was hounded mercilessly for, a land deal he was barely involved with + some carrying on in the Oval Office.