Oh Dick, just please STFU
Cheney: staying in Iraq is like pardoning Nixon
Recently, in an interview with ABC News, Vice President Cheney defended his administration’s refusal to heed the public’s desire to get out of Iraq. “I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls,” he said. The Washington Post notes that in a follow-up interview yesterday, Cheney compared decision-making on the Iraq war to President Gerald Ford’s unpopular decision to pardon Richard Nixon for the Watergate scandal:
Thirty years later, nearly everybody would say it is exactly the right thing to do, that if he’d paid attention at the time to the polls he never would have done that. But he demonstrated, I think, great courage and great foresight, and the country was better off for what Jerry Ford did that day. And 30 years later, everybody recognized it.
And I have the same strong conviction the issues we’re dealing with today – the global war on terror, the war in Afghanistan and Iraq – that all of the tough calls the president has had to make, that 30 years from now it will be clear that he made the right decisions, and that the effort we mounted was the right one, and that if we had listened to the polls, we would have gotten it wrong. </em>
Now its bad enough we’ve had to endure your wheezing war pimping all these years, watched you stuff our tax dollars into your “blind trust”, and have both our economy and security get driven to new lows, but really Dick, its cruel and unusual punishment to have to be subjected to your revisionist history.
For the record, a few facts:
The pardoning of Richard Nixon was a travesty of justice that let our nation off the hook from dealing with the real issue of Watergate- namely, that an out of control above the law tyrant was our President. By not dealing with his ilk then, we are dealing with them now. Only now, they have learned the lessons of Watergate and upped the stakes, and may ruin all of us before they are done. And only slimeballs like you, you Dick, “recognize” that the country “is better off”. It’s better off for you, because you treat it like a giant ATM, you treasonous bastard.
And no one- NO ONE- is going to look back on the ruins of Iraq and the rest of the Middle East in 30 years and go “Hey, that decision to invade a sovereign nation that never threatened you really worked out well…”. Nope. Never gonna happen. Most likely the worst foreign policy action by a president, ever.
Dick Cheney, you burn in effigy around the world now, and will rot in hell when you die. Your place in the tyrants hall of fame is assured, they’re moving the portraits of Idi Amin and Goebbels around so you’ll have a place to hang.
Alas, only a metaphor.
