Breaking Point

By Ted Lang

Not sure the sneering, nasty old geezer heard her
correctly, she repeated, “You don’t care what the
American people think?” “No,” Cheney replied.

What will it take to really enrage the American people to the breaking point? Is it the comments made by that sneering, nasty old geezer with the pacemaker’s reply “So?” to ABC’s Martha Raddatz after telling him that only two thirds of the American people oppose the illegal invasion and war in Iraq? The truth is that it is more like 75 percent of the American people who want the war ended and believe, along with truly professional high-level military strategists and personnel, that the war is a horrific mistake and America’s most incompetent military misadventure. It has lasted longer than World War II!

Not sure the sneering, nasty old geezer heard her correctly, she repeated, “You don’t care what the American people think?” “No,” Cheney replied.

Now consider this response and his monarchial attitude when applied against the history of governments, monarchies, revolutions and war. Consider the response to that usually ascribed to Marie Antoinette before she was guillotined: “Let them eat cake!” Or how about multi-zillionaire William Vanderbilt’s outrage directed at a reporter: “The public be damned!” Or French King Louis XIV and Charles de Gaulle’s, “I am the state!”

Cheney’s response, at a time when it is now known that it was his sole initiative to invade Iraq, which is now destroying our economy, has killed almost 1.2 million innocent, defenseless, Iraqi civilians in order to bring them “democracy” by bombing the shit out of them, and has probably killed somewhere between 15,000 to 20,000 in our American military, is typical of the mindlessness, heartlessness, and downright treason of one of humanity’s cruelest tyrants. This monster has killed more human beings than Abraham Lincoln!

Where did I come up with the 15,000 to 20,000 fatalities? I made it up! What choice does one have when Bush has banned all the press from establishing an accurate count and reporting these numbers independent of accounts from American government’s trained official liars? If a wounded soldier is in a chopper and on the way to a medical facility and dies in the air, he or she is simply not counted as having been KIA! Don’t tell me someone out there still believes anything these mass-murdering criminals tell US! And as the President of Vice, who has absolutely no constitutional authority to rule over either Bush or the American people, has also proclaimed, via his own rhetoric and that of his neocon-communist butchers, Iran is the NEXT target! (more…)