I should know better...

[akujunkan]

...than to read any article titled Cheney warns of new attacks.

It didn't inform me.

It made me want to punch him in the face AND NEVER STOP.

That will be all.

Comments

[dark-waterlily.livejournal.com]

That link killed my firefox navigator... I demand you to pat me in the head, that article scared me, no sane people scream "Death, misery come to my country"

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

no sane people scream "Death, misery come to my country"

You're totally right. No sane people do that. The man is a menace.

that interview

[wombatdeamor.livejournal.com]

This is why i wanted to have a "Cheney watch" where we all are able to keep an eye on him and make sure he's not doing further damage to our country. Now he's our Osama Bin Laden, randomly popping up with video tape to scare us into submission and the sacrifice of our ideals. And just in time for our President to try and clean up the dog shit he left on the front porch! If and when one of the "terror suspects" decide for retaliation, they'll spare innocent lives and go straight for the top of the injustices.

Re: that interview

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Now he's our Osama Bin Laden, randomly popping up with video tape to scare us into submission and the sacrifice of our ideals.

You know, I haven't seen it phrased better than this anywhere. Osama killed thousands of innocent people, and Cheney masterminded a needless war that also killed thousands of innocent people. And interviews of Cheney scare me just as much as interviews with Bin Laden. The way I see it, they both hold dogmatic belief systems that are likely to get me killed.

Re: that interview

[wombatdeamor.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the fact that he sold war contracts out to his own companies, who then used faulty parts that both endangered and cost our soldiers thier lives. So going further with the comparison, he's not only killed innocents, but callously thrown away our soldiers lives in persuit of that fearful idealogy.

Re: that interview

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Indeed, and I think he's taken a page from the terrorists here as well. Nothing makes people more eager to continue a useless war than the presence of martyrs.

And if the soldiers who gave their lives for the Cheney/Bush fiascos aren't martyrs, I don't know who counts anymore...

Re: that interview

[wombatdeamor.livejournal.com]

To me, martyrdoom implys a bond between the idea that they are dying for and the doomed. The idea that our soldiers are dying for is American safety, while the Bush/Cheney ideal is cheap oil and profits for halliburton and KBR. To me, calling them martyrs seems a little harsh considering the overwhelming levels of deception at the upper levels, and the usual ignorance at the bottom of the chain of command. Of course, not all are completely innocent. It depends on which soldiers you're talking about: the onces on the ground that the Repubs talked about saying let us win(even though they don't know what the goal is) or the onces who have come home and are fighting for the rest to come home as well.

Re: that interview

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Hm, maybe not "martyr" but "sacrificial lamb?" I mean, they're being marched off to their deaths for, as you point out, deception and someone else's gain.

But you gotta hand it to the Republican machine: here they are bankrupting middle America, killing middle American soldiers, and middle America keeps voting for them. I wish I had that kind of brainwashing ability over the people in charge of my student loans. Instead, those people are getting my tax money to bail them out while they raise my interest rates. AWESOME.

Re: that interview

[wombatdeamor.livejournal.com]

As someone pointed out to me once and I read again in What's the Matter with Kansas?, how can anyone who's ever worked for another human being ever vote Republican? And now that it's not their agenda being paid for, they're suddenly worried about "the cost to our children." Well, they've done a fine job of reducing the number of our children, so now isn't quite the time to worry about that. A big reason for some of the problems I'm having spiritually is that religion is used as an excuse to vote on a single issue, like all a president or senator has to worry about in a given day is whether you can get an abortion or I can fuck another dude. These are important but are minor parts of an elected official's responsibilities. But people keep voting like they have electrodes on their genitals: yeah it hurts, but you get used to it and eventually start to like it. Crazy.