Cheney: War Is Not The People’s Business

[Purveyor]

Helen Thomas, The Jamestown Sun
Published Thursday, April 03, 2008

WASHINGTON — Back in President Lyndon B. Johnson’s worst days, when he was grappling with the Vietnam quagmire and raucous anti-war protests at home, he said that in the big decisions about war and peace: “The people should be in on the takeoffs as well as the landings.”

Tell that to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, who apparently could not care less what Americans think — except every four years at election time.

Cheney made that clear in an intriguing interview with ABC News on his recent Middle East trip. Despite the difficulties surrounding the unprovoked U.S. invasion of Iraq five years ago, Cheney insisted, “It was the right thing to do.”

When the interviewer told him that two-thirds of Americans say the war in Iraq is not worth fighting, Cheney scoffed.

The administration would not be “blown off course by the fluctuations in public-opinion polls,” he vowed.

Cheney went on to claim that Abraham Lincoln never would have succeeded in the Civil War if he had paid attention to polls.

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[gateley]

1. No. Just the dying. nt

[wtmusic]

2. Why does no one ever ask about his deferments?

Um, hello? The emperor is buck naked.

[oldtime dfl_er]

3. History will prove him insane

I know that.

[NEOBuckeye]

4. Why wait for history to decide? Haul his arrogant ass over to The Hague n/a

[Triana]

5. EXCUSE ME?! We PAY for it with our tax dollars ...

...it's OUR money and it's OUR business what is done with that money and in OUR name.

[melody]

6. He's our employee ... he doesn't get to have an opinion

At least, that was the case before all the weepy-eyed GOP gave us back the monarchy they pined for.

[AdHocSolver]

7. Sorry, Melody. You have it backwards. Cheney is the CEO and WE are all his employees.

The U.S. of A. has been privatized. This country has ceased being a democracy, and the shareholders have sent their proxy votes to Bush/Cheney.

The political titles no longer hold. Cheney is CEO and Bush is the president. As in most corporations, the CEO actually runs the corporation, and the president is the public relations person.

The other executives are paid well to help the head honchos loot the corporate treasury, and the internal legal experts are there to protect the principals against law suits and prosecution.

The executives are the only ones who understand the "big picture" (essentially, to enrich the executives) and the lackeys are required to do "whatever it takes" (legal, moral, ethical, healthy or not) to achieve those ends.

Now that you understand your place in the scheme of things, get back to work, or you will be given a bad evaluation and docked pay for slacking off.