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Cheney: Serious About Foreign Policy

That's what the American public was told when he nominated himself to be George W. Bush's running mate in the 2000 election, and then became Vice President. I'm not going to go through the myriad of foreign policy failures he's presided over in the last five years. Let's go with the past week. On the 17th of this month, our Vice President said this:

They’ve had three national elections with higher turnout than we have here in the United States. If you look at the general overall situation, they’re doing remarkably well.

The next day, ten U.S soldiers were killed in Iraq.

And today, the Mahdi militia briefly took total control of the town of Amarah.

Last night, in a question and answer with a local news outfit, he said this:

Q: Are you saying that you believe fighting in Iraq has prevented terrorist attacks on American soil? And if so, why, since there has not been a direct connection between al Qaeda and Iraq established?

CHENEY: Well, the fact of the matter is there are connections. Mr. Zarqawi, who was the lead terrorist in Iraq for three years, fled there after we went into Afghanistan. He was there before we ever went into Iraq. The sectarian violence that we see now, in part, has been stimulated by the fact of al Qaeda attacks intended to try to create conflict between Shia and Sunni.

No, the fact of the matter is, the Vice President of the United States is a paid professional liar. He's not a stupid man, and he knows that trying to backtrack or reverse course will only lead to more lies, so he keeps telling the same ones over and over again.

By sheer instinct, being the dirty politico that he is, he knows the sloth ridden American media will never ever call him on his horseshit. Al Gore can "invent the Internet" and the dogs line up at the starting gate to chase, but when "Mr. Serious" plunges our nation into a generational conflict, we're all supposed to bow to his wisdom. Because he's "serious about national security".

Why this man is not a national joke by now is astounding.

posted by FuzzFinger @ 10/20/2006 07:17:00 PM