The Veep waxes Mendacious...

Dick Cheney’s lies from the late debate are so extensive and pervasive, that it will take scholars several months to catalogue them all.
By then ghod willing, Dick will have fled public life for the salubrious shores of Boesky Island one step ahead of the process servers.

However there are only a few simple points to keep uppermost in mind when contemplating the deceptively complex foreign policy debate.
This war in Iraq was waged on behalf of non-proliferation, democratization, and the annihilation of Al Queda.
As of 7:14pm 10-7-04 “democracy” in Iraq is officially a bitter joke with naught but a collection of bastards, generals, and old sex hating imams waiting in the wings to seize power when the U.S. pulls out.
No amount of money picked out of our pockets and thrown willy-nilly atop the national debt will change that.
Moreover it is now clear that Saddam Hussein had nothing in the way of weapons of mass destruction-and certainly nothing of a biological or nuclear nature.
Everyone involved in the hunt for said weapons has said so, in a rare moment of lucidity our famously truculent Secretary of Defense has even said so.
Saddam may have had atomic intentions and germ-warfare ambitions but as any career officer in the Pentagon can tell you, it is only capabilities that truly matter.
Lastly, Al Queda allegedly the friend of Saddam and his cherished buddy seems to have somehow slipped the dragnet. Could it be that we are looking for him in the wrong place…like Baghdad?

Meanwhile I’m paying 2.00 a gallon for regular at my local service station to cruise Boston like a sick right whale looking for work.
Which is, to my mind a form of private sector taxation in these farcically tax-phobic times.
So really honestly, virtually no aspect of the President’s terrorism policy has worked out…none of it.
Our pockets are being picked as ever by the Oil Sheiks, our troops are blown up and gunned down every day in Iraq while Bin Laden laughs at us and swears in new recruits by the sack load.
This is success?
Bush equates himself in true Leviathan fashion with raw strength. Yet it is raw strength that has failed us here because it has been applied sans wit or reason.
To render it mathematically, Bush=strength yet in Iraq strength= failure.
If that is the case then clearly said strength has to be animated by new and better judgement.
The strength is fine and honed to a sharp edge…it is the people directing it that are dopes, knaves, fanatics and creepy utopians.
I say out with the lot the sooner the better and for god’s sake let us turn over the leadership of the republic to men and women of resolution while there is still time.