Screaming Penguin

Back to the politics, because when Cheney pipes up, I can't resist.

Dick Cheney is making the rounds and predictably still spewing nonsense. Now at least he admits there was no 9/11 - Iraq link , but even that is something that seems to pain him. In the same breath he still conflates Iraq and AQ, even now, in his twisted rationale for the invasion.

An invasion I might add that has turned out about as well as predicted - a complete debacle. Petraeus has done a commendable job, I think, and the surge has helped, but all in all the region is less stable and there is certainly more ill will and greater risk to America then before (as the NIE has stated, multiple times, not just my opinion).

And along the way Dick keeps telling us how great torture is and that we should declassify the memos. I think the memos should be declassified because I they will help to show that it doesn't work, and Dick is just bluffing. I think Levin is right on, and that was exactly my thought before I saw any of the Levin comments, this is just another Cheney tactic (do we really trust him at this point, in any way shape or form?). And besides, both Petraeus and Odierno have come out against torture (any thinking person understands this, hell even Jesse Ventura got it right, and he actually served in the military, unlike Dick). We don't need more debate on this, it's just one of those "known knowns."

All in all he is just repeating the same crap, and continuing the lies. I don't particularly care for some of the economic moves of the Obama administration (though they have been forced into them for the most part, so some leeway there), but those problems aren't even near the same scale as the crap the W administration and Cheney did to this country. It's high time we all just tell him to go F himself, once and for all.