Dowd, NYTimes-Cheney Spits Toads

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

This is a great op-ed piece today!

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/09/opinion/09dowd.html

Excerpts:

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have always used the president's father as a reverse lodestar. In 1992, the senior Mr. Bush wooed the voters with "Message: I care.'' So this week, Mr. Cheney wooed the voters with, Message: You die.

The terrible beauty of its simplicity grows on you. It is a sign of the dark, macho, paranoid vice president's restraint that he didn't really take it to its emotionally satisfying conclusion: Message: Vote for us or we'll kill you

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It's like that fairy tale where vipers and toads jump out of the mouth of the accursed mean little girl when she tries to speak. Every time Mr. Cheney opens his mouth, vermin leap out.

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Mr. Cheney warns against falling back "into the pre-9/11 mind-set,'' when, in fact, the Bush team's pre-9/11 mind-set was all about being stuck in the cold war and reviving "Star Wars" - which doesn't work and is useless against terrorist tactics. The Bush crowd played down terrorism because Bill Clinton and Sandy Berger had told their successors that Osama was a priority, and the Bushies scorned all things Clinton. The president shrugged off intelligence briefings with such headlines as "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States'' because there was brush to be cleared and unaffordable tax-cutting to be done.

Doesn't this mean that the way Shrub handled the 9/11 crises is fair game? I mean NOW is the perfect time to air the footage of Shrub sitting in the classroom.

[Bullshot]

1. How can Cheney make such a statement?

He essentially implied that voting Kerry in the White House would guarantee a terrorist attack in the U.S. To make that kind of a statement, you would have to know that there won't be such an attack while Bush/Cheney are still in the White House between now and the elections.

What does Cheney know that he can make such a bold prediction? Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but something smells putrid about his ultimatum. Does Dick have connections with terrorists? Does the Bush administration orchestrate terrorists and tells them what to do and when?

[Raster]

2. smacks of extortion or blackmail to me... threatening us with...

...their saudi buddies.

[benfranklin1776]

3. Locking as duplicate

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