Dick Cheney's Smirk

If my kid gave me a smirk like this, they'd get a backhand across their face:



Does it look any better in print?

Raddatz: Two-thirds of Americans say it’s not worth fighting, and they’re looking at the value gain versus the cost in American lives, certainly, and Iraqi lives.

Cheney: So?

Raddatz: So — you don’t care what the American people think?

Cheney: No, I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.


Not so much.

In my naive high school civics world, I have always thought what the people thought mattered, at least a little. Besides, there have not been a lot of fluctuations by the fickle ignorant commoners.

Since the bulk of Americans are not retarded, they have been against the Mesopotamian mess, once their heads cleared from the shock of 9-11, and it was obvious we were peddled a pile of crap in the months leading up to the war.

The worst part of this Cheney moment is that it's the smirk of a coward, who got five deferments during the Vietnam War, and accumulated two DUI convictions back on the home front.

But when you let Cousin Cheney out of his cage, he just can't stop yapping.

He once again had to spin the yarn about the Iraq War having something to do with the attacks of September 11:

“This long-term struggle became urgent on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. That day we clearly saw that dangers can gather far from our own shores and find us right there at home.”

There are a number of ways to prevent a band of fanatical religious assholes, who have neither an army, air force or navy, from blowing up buildings in America. But invading a country which had nothing to do with these evil nuts, spending twelve billion dollars a month and stretching our armed forces dangerously thin, is not one of them.

John McCain says this is all history, and we shouldn't worry about it (though he still considers the war a noble and glorious cause). What we must do now is decide who is best able to deal with the future.

The argument has a certain logical ring to it. Victory in Iraq is now pretty much defined as limiting the disastrous consequences of our invasion—checking the growth in power of the homicidal Iranian regime, expelling al-Qaeda from the country, and preventing massive sectarian genocide—all the while keeping the level of American casualties and expenditures to a dull roar.

But if you went into a hospital for an appendectomy, and the surgeon removed your liver, and then you found out there was never anything wrong with your appendix in the first place,would you want to go back to the same guy to patch your body back together?

The thing is, when selecting a president we never know what the next four years will bring. If you go back and listen to the presidential debates from 2000, it seems that both Gore and Bush were running for the position of Superintendent of the Nation's Schools.

But, it was clear that Sonny was a nitwit, and Cheney a demonic fuckface.

John McCain is neither.

But he was up to his eyeballs in leading the country into the disaster that is Iraq.