I am not sure he will even be much help, but Vice President Dick Cheney will be in the Memphis area Monday to stump for Republican Greg Davis anyway. Oh the blogging possibilities this week will be endless. If there is one man who I despise more than anyone it is Dick Cheney. The Dick Cheney who has made tens of millions in personal wealth from his Haliburton and other defense related holdings, while he has steered the country into an immoral war. The Dick Cheney who oversaw our energy policy and held the secret meetings to design the policy with the heads of all the major oil and energy companies. I don't think I have to remind you of record profits at Exxon Mobile, and the Enron scandal. Thanks Dick for the $4 a gallon gas, I am sure you are profiting from it too.From AP reports:
Vice President Dick Cheney will stump for Republican Greg Davis at a Southaven rally next Monday, one day before the special election to fill the seat once held by Roger Wicker, the White House confirmed this morning.
Cheney is expected to attend one campaign event, spokesman Jamie Hennigan said. Details of where and when the event will take place were not available so far in advance of the date, he said.
Can somebody explain to me what is immoral about a stable, democratic Middle East?
ReplyDeleteIn thanking Cheney for $4 gas, it would fall into your logic to also thank him for
ReplyDelete1)Stumping your toe.
2)Obesity
3)The lone shopping cart on the outer edges of the Winn-Dixie parking lot that is taking up a space because of some *-hole's laziness.
4)Earthquakes
5)Mississippi's humidity
6)Grubs in your front yard
7)Wine stains
8)Back problems
9)Road rage
10)Stepping on a dog turd.
Hey, we've all gotta blame somebody, right?
Who better to blame than the man who designed our energy policy in secret meetings with all of the oil executives?
ReplyDeleteBush and Cheney don't give a rat about democracy in the Middle East, just that the middle east oil markets are open to the Anglo-American interests.
One more thing. It is good to see you back posting. I missed your wit for the last few weeks. Don't be a stranger.
ReplyDeleteDemocracy/The Expansion of the Free Market System/Lower Unemployment for Young, Iraqi, Would-Be I.E.D. Experts That do so in the Name of Allah but would instead be making money to buy the next Britney Spears CD or Harry Potter book/A Federally Backed System of Public Education/A Government that Actually Cares About Humanity and does not believe Israel is Satan But Embraces Diversity/Opening of The Middle East Oil Markets.
ReplyDeleteCall it what you will, but all of these things, if accomplished, would all but completely destroy the idea of killing innocent people around the world because they are not Muslims(and sometimes are Muslims).
No, the exact opposite is happening in Iraq right now. It is a cluster*, but this was the vision of the majority of decision makers in D.C. in 2003 and it is still the vision of all true, progressive thinkers in the world.
Thanks, good to be back.
Democracy and Free Markets are two completely seperate ideas. In the past this country, through the IMF, World Bank and WTO, have helped to squash democracy in favor of free markets all over the world. Iran, China, Russia, Chile, Bolivia, Indonesia, all of the southern cone.
ReplyDeleteHad Saddam not just signed an agreemnet with Russia that combined with a pending agreement with France, that would have completely shut the U.S. and England out of Iraq's oil markets, we would have never gone over there, period. Hey John McCain agrees.
Well I guess I disagree with you and John McCain.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should vote for the centrist Senator from Arizona? :)