Cheney, McCain and The New Cold War
By Steve Hynd Saturday Sep 06, 2008 11:00am
Dick Cheney may be the least introspective man in history.
Dick Cheney, the US vice president, broadened his attack on Russia late on Saturday, directly challenging Vladimir Putin’s view of history and warning that his government could “not have it both ways” by using “brute force” and still hoping to build economic progress.
Form anyone else, the hypocrisy would be breathtaking - as Bush's administration continues to push its military adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq and neo-whatevers calls for more wars with Iran, Syria, Russia ... to say nothing of any "humanitarian" excuse they can come up with for armed intervention. For Cheney its par for the course and everyone expects it.
Business leaders and politicians attending the conference had expected an uncompromising assault by Mr Cheney. But some said it only highlighted a sense of exasperation by a departing administration that had failed in its own diplomacy toward Russia, and the acute differences between Washington and Europe.
[José Manuel Barroso, the head of the European Commission,] also appeared to want to diminish the role of the US in resolving the conflict in Georgia, telling the Financial Times: “The hope for peace is the EU.”
“I’ve not seen any proposals coming from any parts of the world apart from the peace proposal put forward by president Sarkozy on behalf of the EU,” he said.
Speaking later to reporters, Mr Barroso said: “We are interested in having constructive relations with Russia. It is important to note what we need. We need cool heads, not a cold war and this is the basic message.”
From all we've heard so far a McCain-Palin administration would simply repeat all the mistakes of the Bush-Cheney one and America's reputation would continue it's downslide as foreign policy failure piled on failure.
For a start, John McCain seems to be just as tone-deaf to his own words as Dick Cheney. Talking about the conflict in Georgia, he told an audience in Aspen back in mid-August:
My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression.
Perhaps John forgot about the first Gulf War, Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq that he personally did so much to pave the way for. After all, he's 72. But it's significant how easily he glosses over the facts of Georgia - that his own "close friend", Georgian president Mikheil Shakashvili, was the one to send the bulk of his nation's armed might into its own ethnic minority region while Russia had a peacekeeping role there. A role, moreover, that Georgia had signed up to. In Britain, we'd diplomatically call it "being economical with the truth".
Then there was McCain's nomination acceptance speech. He said:
Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power. They invaded a small, democratic neighbor to gain more control over the world's oil supply, intimidate other neighbors and further their ambitions of reassembling the Russian empire. And the brave people of Georgia need our solidarity and prayers. As president, I will work to establish good relations with Russia so we need not fear a return of the Cold War. But we can't turn a blind eye to aggression and international lawlessness that threatens the peace and stability of the world and the security of the American people.
However, all of McCain's policy plans suggest a return to the Cold War is exactly what he's after - and good relations with Russia (or anyone else) be damned.
Even before the Georgia crisis, McCain wanted to throw Russia out of the G8 group, depriving it of valuable trading opportunities and depriving every member of a valuable forum for diplomatic dialogue with the Bear. Fortunately, while Britain might go along with such a plan, other G8 nations like Germany and France almost certainly wouldn't - they need Russian trade, and energy supplies, too much. And according to McClatchy:
A senior U.S. official who deals with Russia policy said that even Moscow would have to approve of its own ouster, given how the G-8 works.
"It's not even a theoretical discussion. It's an impossible discussion," said the senior official, who requested anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly. "It's just a dumb thing."
So, like Dick, more rhetoric than reality, but the kind of "tough talk" that creates problems rather than solving them.
Then there's his plan to create a League of Democracies and exclude nations like Russia. That's a bust too, as several leading democracies have said they wouldn't join any such group. Still, here again McCain reveals his fellowship with extremists from the Bush administration like Cheney and John Bolton. Charles Krauthammer, co-originator of the League idea, says it's a blind for a long-held neoconservative wish.
McCain cannot oppose the UN outright – because the American people support it so passionately. Contrary to the yokel-myth, a typical opinion poll – by Global Public Opinion – just found that 64 per cent of Americans think the UN is doing a good job, compared to just 28 per cent who support George Bush. Some 72 per cent of Americans want the UN to play a bigger role.
So McCain has decided to build up an innocuous-sounding alternative called a "League of Democracies". It would be an alliance of countries the US labels democratic that can be used to legitimise US military actions. Charles Krauthammer, the conservative journalist who invented the plan, says: "What I like about it is, it's got a hidden agenda. It looks as if it's about listening and joining with allies... except the idea here, which McCain can't say but I can, is to essentially kill the UN. Nobody's going to walk out of the UN. There's a lot of emotional attachment to it in the US. How do you kill it? You create a parallel institution." Gradually – over decades – McCain hopes it would make the UN wither away.
Such a plan, if it ever came to fruition, would usher in a new age of America and it's closest friends against everyone else. And it's not at all certain that it's strongest allies would still count as among its closest friends.
Then there's the idea being touted by McCain camp adviser Fred Kagan to turn the Baltic states into US-armed "porcupines", with the spines aimed at Russia. Does that sound like working " to establish good relations with Russia" to you? How about McCain's insistence that Georgia and other nations in what Russia terms its "near foreign" region should be fastracked into NATO? The very fact that everyone saw a possible conflict in the wind was cited by both Germany and France as a reason to veto Georgia's membership last time the Bush administration tried to railroad it through - because NATO membership would obligate other members to come to Georgia's defense if asked.
No, McCain's rhetoric on Russia has been, without fail, idiotically belligerent and incredibly tone deaf. His polices are designed to usher in what he says he doesn't want - a new Cold War. As the European Commission's Barroso indicated, no-one expects the Bush administration to practise effective diplomacy any more and no-one is waiting for them to solve problems rather than make them worse. Other nations are getting on with doing it despite America right now. McCain-Palin foreign policy would be another four years of the same and ensure that American prestige was deader than a moose in Sarah Palin's sights.
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So perhaps all the mockery of McCain as McSame or McBush are misplaced. Maybe it should be McCheney?
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Worth watching. Bristol Palin exposed!
I think the neocons are giddy at the prospect of a renewed cold war with Russia. Even more trillion$ could be stolen without all the unpleasant collateral damage and unfriendly publicity the War on Terror(tm) generates. Spending money hand over fist fighting an enemy we never confront certainly beats spending hand over fist fighting an enemy who occasionally shoots back at you.
Now if they could have it both ways, that would be extra-sweet!
If you have a strong stomach, I recommend visiting 'Red State Blog' or some other such right-wing outlet. It is extremely shocking, entertaining and educational, seeing the world through their eyes..
War Profiteer
Oh why oh why do the republicans hate America???
fred @ 4:
A week ago went to FR following a link, rather disgusting cartoon in the thread,
Obama in a dumpster (behind an abortion clinic) with a club, with the caption "just making sure there are no survivors'
So looked at this Freepers Flickr page and the masses of retarded and juvenile images and cartoons was unbelievable.
If this is typical of the average wingnut forum users, explains their views on the world, they are mentally ill.
jayres @ 2:
As mentioned, if this kid was the father, Karl Rove would be making him disappear, paying him off, etc., etc. This is either a scam or a way for this guy to get famous through YouTube.
ferrofluid (Obama + Biden = 2008) @ 7:
You should send that link to Bill O'Reilly. BillO the Clown is always saying how much hatred there is on the far left and refuses to acknowledge that it exists on the right.
Uncle Dick is just pissed because BP is about to lose its pipeline. I figure, let the Russians have it. We know BP will screw us over.
The oxygen-deprived brain trust that is the Republican - Christian - Evangelical public relations social theorist suit monkey corp (AKA Corporate Media, Inc.) only continues an empirist chaos theory strategy in 1980 hosted by actor turned president Ronald Alzyeimer Raygun. Dick has become dickshit filthy rich and only respects others as greedy pigs as he.
General Jack D. Ripper @ 9:
It was prob one of his young wannabe interns, they (RNC/Faux) know what their Teenygopper base is like, junior versions of themselves.
I can't believe these morons that voted for Bush twice are going to stick us with four more years of this shit. If McBush/McCheney/McPain manage to get into the White House, God help us.
The Rethuglicans want to take us from Fool to Drool, and from The Devil to Spawn of the Devil.
Thus far, the Neocon's Foreign Policy has been so successful that even our allies are threatening to retaliate.
How can we trust the Democrats to match that foreign policy record?
Extremely lazy quick lazy google search and voila, a pro life blogsite with the cartoon on it.
This is the shite they peruse for their enjoyment and to invigorate their base..
Sometimes Dick Cheney makes George Bush look moderate and desirable.
Oh Oh is that what the vice president does?
Take notes Mrs. Palin.
What is wrecking America NOT conservatives but
NEOCONs ideology of hegemony.....we don't like
the BUSH doctrine....wait and see what the maverick
has in mind.
recall the 'straight talk express' said my friends there are
going to be more wars
(I posted this in another thread - much more relevant here)
NY Times: Cheney Warns Russia to Reverse Its Course
Reuteres: Cheney to rally U.S. allies in Russia's backyard
MSNBC (Reuters): Venezuela to host Russia navy exercise
Heckuva Job Cheney!
BTW, Sarah Palin is pro- life.
http://www.bgladd.com/McSameStore/ProLifeSarahPalin.jpg
George Orwell coined the term Double-Think in his novel '1984'. The definition of DoubleThink is to fervently believe in both sides of a blatant hypocrisy with equal belief, Orwell's example was to fully believe that 2+2=4 and 2+2=5 at the same time and not to be able to see anything wrong with the logic.
Republicans, both the leadership and the voters, must be masters of DoubleThink in order to vote for their party. Everything that any Republican says is such and obvious and blatant lie, yet the MSM presents the lies as fact, enabling the DoubleThink among the electorate.
DoubleThink is a serious mental illness. Crazy people must not be in charge of America. We have seen first hand the results of certifiably insane Republican leadership.
These ****tards are going to get us all killed with their "Restart the Cold War for Profit" scheme. It is nothing more.
where'as Obama and Brezinzski would handle Russia any differently LOL, does anyone not remember why the Afghan/soviet Union war started ? .
In that FT article, Cheney says: "Let me give you my opinion. The demise of the Soviet Union was inevitable and the greatest forward step for liberty in the last 60 years."
"Greatest forward step for liberty?????" I guess that must be true, because now Russia has I think the world's highest number of millionaires and billionaires. And I'd bet you that many of those are those same that are selling arms to Syria and Iran.
Russia, Mr. Cheney, looks like it is the kind of progress you want for our own country....a bunch of rich millionaire and billionaire war mongers.
You see, the problem with peaceful prosperous multilateral international cooperative coexistence IS - military industrial sales would plummet.
andy @ 22:
Just in case anyone forgot:
Zbigniew Brzezinski:
How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen
This is so sickening. On so many levels
Saakashvili is a despotic demagogue with a totalitarian manners (now he could be described even as a war criminal) And this neo-con pals of his in Bush administration and in McCain's campaign team (Randy Scheuneman) have the insolence to present him to american audience as a great democrat, freedom loving hero and american best ally.
Saakashvili gaved orders to his army to attack (with approval by US governemnt there is no doubt about it) South Ossetia in middle of the night, in the night before the official opening ceremony of Olympic Games. His army was shelling sleeping city full of innocent civillians - and these neocon war criminals have the insolence to present him as a victim of Russian agression. That is fucking unbelievable!
Saakashvili is going down - Georgians will dump him and rightfully so! There is Georgian opposition and they are not happy with his last actions.
http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=19400
Its all about oil again... Russia was our friend... our trading partner... Bush could see Putin's soul... Until the Russians said the deal they got from the foreign oil companies stunk and they nationalized their oil industry.
Behind McCain stands the same bunch that stood behind Bush and Cheney... Big Oil... the Halliburton's, Exxon Mobil, BP, and the rest. These corporations use America to fight its wars for them as we have seen in Iraq and how they are now exerting pressure on the Iraqi government to sign away the rights to their oil to foreign companies.
These wars are not in the interest of the American people... call it what it is... treason!
Cheney and the neo-cons are attempting yet another oil grab. As their base is firmly rooted in the ultra conservative 60 y o + GOP demographic, I'm not at all surprised that they are provoking Russia so blatently. After all, Russia is the traditional post-war enemy of the USA, the familiar old boogey-man that their aged base can be relied upon to rail against.
And let us not overlook the convenient disruption that hostilites between BushCo and Russia will provide. I've long been expecting Bush & Cheney to engineer a situation 'spoiler' in time for the November election, and this has all the hallmarks of being such. BushCo simply cannot afford for the Democrats to win the election. They are implicated personally in war crimes and high misdemeanors (Plamegate, Torture, illegal wiretapping of nationals etc) and will face long prison time if prosecuted and convicted. And with Joe Biden on their case, that is more of a probability than a possibility.
General Jack D. Ripper @ 8:
If this kid were the 'baby-daddy,' lil Bristle (so named cuz her pubes are like steel wool) would be off being treated AGAIN for mono...
Land Of Lincoln @ 13:
My husband and I have been talking about that this morning. We just can't imagine anyone voting for McCain knowing what his values are and his attitude toward the world. What the hell is the attraction to him? Is it that he has a veep who can deliver wise assed comments about the Democrats nominee? Jesus, this is so fu*king serious and yet it's being treated like that fu*king Idol show.
Putin is now trying to cozy up to Cuba. Cuba, after being wrecked by one hurricane and now another is begging for humanitarian aid. This would be the time for us to be as humanitarian to Cuba as we were to Georgia. Seems to me this would be a great time to show we do still have a heart.
Noted elsewhere:
Linky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGMQ5DpVVTM
They are implicated personally in war crimes and high misdemeanors (Plamegate, Torture, illegal wiretapping of nationals etc) and will face long prison time if prosecuted and convicted. And with Joe Biden on their case, that is more of a probability than a possibility.
Nobody in the Bushevik regime will EVER face the bar of justice for their crimes in office.
Even if St. Barry, the Tan, does happen to become #44, he would NEVER risk the precedent of prosecuting his predecessor because it would SURELY come back to bite him in the ass and, while even if they were prosecuted, the Buhies would walk, St. Barry, the Black, would NOT. They'd send him up for life...
The world needs to understand that this man does not speak for the American people. He is a soon-to-be ex-employee of the Federal government who should rightfully be behind bars. If Nancy Pelosi weren't so busy smoozing with lobbyists, maybe he would be.
In the end, all Cheney is is a Dick with an opinion.
Sick fooks
The Free Republic thread with the extreme bad taste offending cartoon on it.
this is how the wingnuts play
CGI cartoon of Obama smashing a babys head against a wall.
andy @ 22:
Cheese slices
woody, tokin librul @ 29:
Bristol after her first, is going through a phantom second pregnancy,
the baby which will be tragically miscarried in October, week or days before the election for the sympathy vote.
her boobs are humongous going by that photo on the stage, shes lactating now, something that doesnt happen four months BEFORE a birth
pissed off patricia @ 30:
You know that Bush refused aid from Cuba during Katrina. He'll probably refuse aid to Cuba because they're pinko commie socialists....but, yeah, Georgia is a Democracy!!!!! Cuba I think has a population of 11 million or so; Georgia has a population of about 4.5 million.
Bush/Cheney/Mavrik and wife/ all idiots
The mortgage cheney sold the country was sub-primed. The Russians know it's all bluster and bluff and would love to prove the chickenhawk is full of it.
and of course Sarah Palin is back to her slim trim before figure with normal sized boobs,
they are morons to think people cant see with their own eyes.
When thinking about why people would decide to vote
for mccain consider the social/cultural angle. i myself
have gotten away from being logical.
people align with their party of the past and the people
they PERCEIVE they best relate to.
personally i believe the cultural and social element is over played but it is effective. each party knows their
people(demographics) and it's gotten sophisticated with
linguistic framing that is effective for respective demographics....to me liberals i know are grey area
thinkers the (R) know and others i have spoke with
black and white thinkers.
i'll bet you senator palin is a black and white thinker
who can tell you to fxxk off with a smile and a bible in
her hands.
The entire republician party consists of either Authoritarian Leaders-AL or Followers-AF. The studies about Authoritanianism have been ongoing for over 50 years. Multigenerational studies, studies done with children and followups when then became adults, studies about AL's and the effect that they have on AF's.Everyone should know and understand what AFs believe and how they can believe 6 impossible things before breakfast. How they can accept a complete 180 degree change of position by the one that their ALs tell them to believe in without question. Forget the ALs, you will never be able to change their minds because their world view and mindset became fixed when they were children. I have noticed that the numbers of ALs and AFs have been growing over the years, while those of us who are against the status quo and desire that our country become better are slowly shrinking. Young people are less inclined today to question authority than they were back in my day-1960's and 70's-this has led to the current split in the country-red/blue states-this split will, I believe, continue to grow in favor of the red states due to the current education system and the desire of the children to conform rather than question. Children who are not budding AFs are called ADD or ADHD and given drugs to make them conform. I can see the dissolution of the american republic as it now stands, the outer shell will remain-the vote-but personal liberties will continue to disappear and the political leaders will become fixed in their positions to the point of willing the position to their sons.(daughters need not apply) Womens rights will continue to shrink-if mccain is elected the right of abortion will be gone within 4 years-I foresee a nation led(the powers behind the throne, the oligarchs) by the New American Century Neocons-NACN-which in their current form consist of Big Energy,Big Arms, Big Media and Big Jesus- all within 20-50 years, if McCain wins the time shortens, if Obama wins, it might be 50-70 years out, but the end result is the same. We become an Oligarchy fronted by a religious militaristic leadership that will continue the US fall into a third world country as the rest of the world passes us by because we will be teaching religion rather than science, conformity rather than nonconformity.
Different Anonymous @ 3:
Ain't that how we claimed to beat the Soviet Union into bits? By forcing it to spend itself into oblivion on its military? God, I hate it when history repeats itself, especially with such a recently-learned lesson.
Why do the neo-cons hate America?
Beef Jerky@10
Bingo...
Buying for a "hostile corporate (Fascist) take over" of the world, costs lots of money!
So,
Let's get more oil on the international market, because the destruction of US economy will not allow the American Tax Payers fund the next wars.
These are the type of people that don't care if Polar Bears disappear, because you can't drill through Arctic Ice Pack for oil...
The Russians just planted their "Flag" at the North Pole (of course on the sea bed), claiming it for "Mother Russia"!
Did you know that there are billions of barrels of oil there?
OIL OIL OIL ...
Hey, we already have a wonderful nuclear fusion reactor, that is safely located 93,000,000 miles from the earth. can we use that (and the many other great ALTERNATIVES), instead of just destroying our planet.
Welcome to the "New Cold War"!
I wonder if Sinclair Lewis was envisioning something like Sarah Palin with is Fascism to America... 'draped in a flag, and carrying a cross' statement; he probably just didn't see the "and presented by a (runner up) Beauty Queen" portion!
Which lends to me a nightmare image of the Statue of Liberty being replaced by
St.Palin,
Only she's burning books with that torch!
Back to the Ghost Dance
"Mr Cheney saved his toughest anti-Russian speech for the last leg of his tour of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Italy."
How about if Mr Putin toured Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Panama, Venezuela, and Columbia with his toughest anti-American speech? What would we think. The problem this Administration has caused America is that we are being considered, even by our friends, as a country that is becoming a "trouble maker," by constantly putting them into acrimonious situations. McFudd's advisers may call us whiners, but the rest of the world is beginning to call us a BULLY.
America where are our allies? Where is our news media? where is our common sense? Are we ready to send our children to war? McCaine slogan will be our country at war, send me your kids. Here comes the draft. Now why is the Plain kid going to war? Is it because he loves his country, or is it because he hates jail? Check it out.
Georgian soldiers fresh from a joint training with US forces in July attacked part of their own country with heavy weapons, shelling civilians who happened to have joint nationality with Russia. This is one of those long term hatreds so common in that part of the world. I personally do not consider myself to be in league with the Georgians. Russia was brutal in its response, but this was intended as a slap at Bush. Bush who probably incited the incident anyway. They destroyed the ability of the Georgian military to fight. This is Bushes fault. When will he begin to pay for his crimes. I don't want him impeached but in a nice cell in Brussels. Also I trust the Georgian people will get rid of their pinhead president. Talk about a need for change.
Saakashvili, the President of the Republic of Georgia, is a liar and a war criminal. He ordered a brutal military assault on the citizens of South Ossetia on 6 September 2008 with shells, rockets and bombs. The next day, he sent in his tanks and armored vehicles to slaughter as many South Ossetians. The RussiaToday news web site now has a video made in a Georgian tank filmed as they rampaged through the city of Tskhinvali, South Ossetia.
US military forces and Israeli military forces trained the Georgian military before this assault.
Below are some web links that may be of interest:
South Ossetia, Georgia and Russia: a background primer. South Ossetia, Georgia and Russia
A perceptive linguist examines in detail, the ethnic history of the Caucasus region at ClubOrlov Blogspot, Cluborlov blogsot See the essay, “What‘s wrong with Georgia?” (8/08).
Daily news updates from RussiaToday.com: Russia Today
Sorry, but C&L did not print the web links in my comment above. They all can be seen at the alternative media link at www.bottlebrushpress.com/.
Dick Cheny... good ol' Mr. Full-of-$hit himself!! Still at the saber-rattling and showing how the pot calls the kettle black yet one more time. Hubris-filled, arrogant, hypocrite describe him to a tee.
BobbyG @ 19:
not for moose, she isn't!
For the Russians ... well, I wouldn't exactly call it "breathtaking," but you may
rest assured, now that they have the ability to spend us out of existence the very
way we did the USSR, that they sure as hell are not going to take it any more.
Period.
Russian national debt today= 0
USA debt= $25 trillion (very conservative estimate)!
28% US citizens= sheep...baaaa
22% " = ostriches (head up ass is optional for "stuck in sand")
7% " = greedy and (or) traitorous; including all dual citizens that do not honor the US Constitution FIRST!
4% " = EVIL
and then, the rest of us.
I read it in the Census report somewhere... ha ha
I pray for our children.
Back to the Ghost Dance
His swollen fat belly ached with Georgian vodka tonic, the tough talking Dick is both cranked-up yet shrivelled. He knows he cannot f'ck nor fight. The Dick Cheney snarl has lost its fear and means nothing to the last soldier out. Still, the look on Dick is too pathetic. She says 'Sir, just lock the doors 'n wait in the car, this won't take long'.
Comrade Rutherford @ 20:
I couldn't agree with you more and appreciate how you said it. The blatant, 24/7, extreme brainwashing taking place IS the stuff of Orwell. I see examples of it everywhere, and it not only frightens me because of its implications for the country's future, but sometimes I feel frightened for my own sanity, since so many even liberal democrats I know, many professionals, are convinced I'm overreacting.
Simply everything has been reduced to talking points disseminated by partisan hacks, in some cases partisan hacks with solid reputations and sober presentations. The idea that before last week, one republican meme, repeated continually, was, Obama is not experienced enough, and now it's, Proximity to Russia is valid experience--and the media does not even question this insanity--simply makes me lose all hope for a way out of this madness. As in 1984, wrong becomes right, and no one even acknowledges that wrong existed in the first place!
Unless Putin's been locked in a cone of silence for the last few years, he knows that Cheney is a dead, lame duck. There's no reason for him to even acknowledge the presence of such a putrefying corpse.
That photo is pricelss. McCain's expression seems to be one of concern for the amount of time Cheney is holding his hand, counting the seconds until it rots off...
get a grip america - he's only the vice president - jail him! if it's good enough for terrorists outside the us.
it's got to be good enough for those who would undermine america from within.
history will prove Dan Quale was a better vice president of the usa than this bozo!
we have met the enemy and he is us.
Russia, China, and India are just waiting to throw dirt on our nation's grave.
go ahead: vote whichever way you want, fools, it's already game over we just
haven't realized it yet.
I don't think the game is over yet Pat 58 but it's real close , no doubt about it . If McCain wins I agree , it's over , if it isn't already too late the America we used to know will be lost forever , sabotaged by we the people and the ignorance , gross stupidity and insanity of the American people will have been downfall . I used to wonder how evil and the rotten of mankind , like Hitler and Stalin could have had such a following and backing of it's citizens , the question has been answered . The turds , not the cream , have risen to the top , have joined forces , organized and have hijacked the country, either they get flushed in November or ... it isn't going to be pretty and the consequences will affect the entire world , not just us .
that profile of cheney doesn't look right.
the entire cheney trip to meddle in Georgia has me lying awake nights. seems well timed with olympics and convention distractions. and where the hell is our russian-expert secretary of state??? isn't condi one of the VERY few visible female role models that putin, i mean PALIN, would benefit from w/in the neocon inner circle?? you can bet ol darth vadar will cover his tracks on the specifics of any deal making from this trip to his bunker vault with the plame files, secret energy commission minutes, bush's soul and saddam's WOMD receipts from sales in the 80's.
i just checked. condi was in nyc for her annual shoe shop and couldn't make the georgia gig (remember Katrina?). i moved to new zealand 2 weeks after the 2004 election with no regrets. yes, high taxes here but not spent foolishly on defen$e. if neocons continue abuse of power against the Constitution via wire taps, detention-torture, executive orders, privilege, etc via the McSame ticket, then i would suggest getting those passports ready.
Cheney is Satan's spawn.
McCain is the sucker of Satan's cock.
It's that simple.
Impeachment wouldn't be enough in this case.
What would be.
I dunno...
Starts with "Ass" and ends in "Nation."
Then again, we are a nation of asses.
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