Now we’ve heard it all.
Today Vice President Dick Cheney told America that the threat of terrorists detonating a nuclear bomb in an American city: “It’s a very real threat … something that we have to worry about and defeat every single day.”
And then he went on to warn that if the United States withdraws from Iraq, then basically we’re just paving the way for terrorists to plant such a bomb in some US city.
So let’s get this straight. According to Reichsmarschall Von Cheney:
US stays in Iraq = US safe from nuclear terrorism
US leaves Iraq = American cities go boom!
What a bunch of unmitigated bullshit!
Cheney actually expects anyone to buy this kind of tripe? And this coming from the people who brought you Iraq’s wonderful “Weapons Of Mass Destruction” and Saddam Hussein’s much vaunted nuclear program.
Yeah, right!
This is obviously a last desperate card being played by the Bush administration. An empty attempt to salvage their position on the Iraq war-funding bill.
They figure if they can scare the holy living shit out of people, then the voters will play along with their program.
Now this approach did work rather well for the first few years of the war. All the orange, yellow, purple and mauve terror alerts. People were on edge, off balance. Suspicious and distrustful. Let’s buy some duct tape and tape up all our doors and windows in case of a chemical or biological attack. Right now!
And Bush and his buddies kept America that way – all to their advantage.
The bitch is, eventually people have come to see through the farce.
All the justifications for the Iraq war have been proved to be false – there were no WMD, no nukes, no ties between Saddam and al Qaeda – no nothing. No rational or practical basis for invading Iraq. None. Saddam as it turns out, wasn’t a menace to anyone outside the borders of his country.
So now when Reichsmarschall Von Cheney comes and tells us, if we leave Iraq, we’re leaving ourselves open for nuclear terrorism, he has as much credibility as Richard Nixon did when telling us, “I am not a crook.”
Lies, lies and more lies. That’s all George Bush and Dick Cheney gives us. Lies, lies and more lies.
The results of the last elections are very clear; the American people are tired of Bush’s empty rhetoric. They’re tired of being involved in an un-just war; a war we cannot and will not ever win. Every minute American troops remain in Iraq just exacerbates the problems there – and here as well.
In keeping the troops in Iraq – much less expanding the scope of the war with his “surge” – Bush is directly contravening the clearly expressed will of the American people.
George Bush is directly responsible for the deaths of over 3,300 American soldiers – useless deaths – these fine soldiers died for absolutely no reason at all. Bush is also directly responsible for the deaths of perhaps as many as 67,000 Iraqi civilians. Over 24,000 American soldiers have been wounded in action.
All for nothing.
This is appalling and horrific; an atrocity.
This cannot be allowed to continue. George Bush should be impeached and tried as a war criminal.