Cheney Administration Expresses Self-knowledge
"Capture one of these killers, and he'll be quick to demand the protections of the Geneva Convention and the Constitution of the United States. Yet when they wage attacks or take captives, their delicate sensibilities seem to fall away. These are men who glorify murder and suicide. Their cruelty is not rebuked by human suffering, only fed by it. They have given themselves to an ideology that rejects tolerance, denies freedom of conscience, and demands that women be pushed to the margins of society.
The terrorists know what they want and they will stop at nothing to get it. By force and intimidation, they seek to impose a dictatorship of fear, under which every man, woman, and child lives in total obedience to their ideology. Their ultimate goal is to establish a totalitarian empire ... They view the world as a battlefield and they yearn to hit again. And now they have chosen to make Iraq the central front in their war against civilization."
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Posted by b on May 27, 2007 at 17:55 UTC | Permalink
to think that about 1/3 of this nation still support these people — scary
Posted by: dolce | May 27 2007 22:28 utc | 2
closer to 1/4. still radical when it's translated to millions.
Posted by: | May 27 2007 23:38 utc | 3
beq wrote:
I'll be so glad when I don't have to look at that face anymore. And to think it's not even photoshopped.
I won't. Anyone who is Sec. of State, or "Trade Representative", and preferably Pres. as well, should be required to have a visage like this - ie. one that truly reflects xUS policy at domestically & internationally. You are really asking to be snookered, or lulled to sleep? Why is that preferable? You sound just like Georgie Soros, who loathes these guys 'cuz they give the game away.
Posted by: jj | May 28 2007 0:43 utc | 4
Dick Cheney is discovering that "The Muslim way of life in non-negotiable."
Something Richard the Lion Hearted also insisted on learning the hard way.
So now the irresistible force founders upon the immovable object. Nothing except endless blood and fire will arise from this collision, but then, that is all that Dick Cheney wants, and everything Dick Cheney wants.
War without end, without cease, without borders, without rules, without mercy.
A well connected man can turn quite a pretty penny in such a wonderful world.
Posted by: Antifa | May 28 2007 4:50 utc | 6
I'm a life-long believer in split-face analysis, taking a person's frontal head shot, then splitting the two halves, mirroring them, and recreating two figural personas out of
one real one. Much mirth, but it's left-brain, right-brain,
eyes (and facial expression) as windows to the soul.
So I expected a ruthless double-fascist face on the one hand, Cheney's trademark snarl, and a robot automaton on the other.
Not so!
Cheney's snarl, when halved, mirrored and composited, shows instead an anguished hawk, no longer able to fly, trapped in a feeble body that it can no longer lift its spirit upward. His snarl more a shreik, eagle plummeting to earth, heart-broken.
Cheney's dead-pan twin is just the opposite of some passive robot, instead, a buck-toothed preacher face, shrilling down from an internalized pulpit. A Pentacostal pencil neck, face rigid and unflinching. All unbelievers go straight to hell.
Maybe it's that conflict? Maybe it's the company Cheney keeps?
"Anybody on the Left who hopes that when people like Reverend Falwell disappear that the opportunity to convert all of America (to Neo-Zi George Wallace-bigoted fundamentalism) has gone with them, fundamentally misunderstands why institutions like this [Liberty University] were created." Newt Gingrich
Give me Death if I have to convert to Gingrich's Liberty!
And in related news, Uncle Ramtha Wants You!
http://www.ramtha.com/
Posted by: Peris Troika | May 28 2007 5:19 utc | 7
beq, you missed my point. Cheney is such a blood-thirsty cur that he arouses max. resistance, so there's a chance that Iraqiis will get their country back, albeit at a HUGE cost. Soros, the greasy greed addict, was very impt. in Destruction of Yugoslavia. The Yugoslavs stand no chance of getting their country back.
Posted by: jj | May 28 2007 5:24 utc | 8
INTERESTING INTERVIEW
http://www.worldnewsaustralia.com.au/transcript.php#
INTERVIEW WITH GYNNE DYER, AUTHOR
STAN GRANT: Well, earlier I spoke to author and Middle East expert Gwynne Dyer about developments in Iraq. He believes America will leave Iraq in defeat and the Middle East, as we know it, will come to an end.
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GWYNNE DYER: Well, I think the Americans are really going to go home and not just from Iraq, but probably from much of the rest of the Middle East as well. Certainly the kind of overwhelming military presence they've had there for the last 40 years is going to stop - because the American public won't stand for it, because the locals don't want it And that actually means that a lot of other things could change as well because it has been that American military presence there for the last 40 years that has basically frozen everything. Only one regime has changed in the whole region in the last 40 years and that was Iran in '79.
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the Americans have also said that defeat in Iraq will be a victory for terrorists, a victory for al-Qaeda. Is that what we're going to see in the Middle East?
GWYNNE DYER: Well, yes in the sense that al-Qaeda I mean, they're revolutionaries, right? These guys are Arab revolutionaries. They talk about world Islamic empires and they use terrorism as a means of achieving their aims, but they are revolutionaries. What they want to do is come to power in Arab countries, they've been trying for 30 years with zero success, I think they may have a few successes in the next few years. I can't tell you exactly where, but almost every Arab country is vulnerable.
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all of that is going to put an enormous amount of pressure on Israel - how does it survive, particularly if, as you say, the US is not there to lend its support?
GWYNNE DYER: Well, I think Israel is going to see a serious deterioration in its position. I mean, its position for a long time has been absolutely unchallengeable. It has the only nuclear weapons for 1,000 miles in any direction, it's got the biggest army, most efficient army in the entire Middle-East - you could take out all the Arab states around it and win with one hand tied behind his back - and it's got 100% guarantee from the US. These are fairly large strategic assets. So the Israelis, while they stand absolutely no risk of being overrun or anything, are going to find the next 20 years harder than the last 20 years.
VBO: I am not sure about this one...
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Will the Americans also find the next 20 years harder than the previous, given the loss of American prestige if, as you say, they suffer this defeat in Iraq?
GWNNE DYER: Well, maybe, but I doubt it, unless they actually attack Iran. I mean, losing in Iraq is rather like losing in Vietnam. And what was striking in the aftermath of Vietnam was how little damage there was to, you know, the larger American position in the world - a couple of years of recrimination and then they picked themselves up, shake themselves off and they're back where they were before. I think if it just is defeat in Iraq, the very same thing will follow after this one.
VBO: I am also not sure about this one...Times has changed a little bit and all though memory in USA can be short but outside it's not the case in this era of informative revolution...
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General Tommy Franks was asked does he believe that Iraq and Afghanistan will make it. He said, "I don't know, "but Iraq and Afghanistan have a chance now to make it." Is that what, at the very least, the US has delivered - that chance to make it?
GWYNNE DYER: Well, Iraq in 20 years' time will probably be like Iraq 30 years ago. I mean, you can't ruin a country that really is so basic in its organization. There was no superstructure to destroy so it doesn't take much to put Afghanistan back on track. I mean, it won't be a very attractive track to other people but, you know, that's what they've always been like and I think they could put that back together again quite easily. I mean, it's not going to be a shining example of democracy and women's liberation in central Asia but it will be more or less the recognisable Afghanistan. Iraq may just break up, but it's also possible that they can pull it together.
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VBO: Nothing is impossible but it's a shame what USA made of Vietnam , not only during war but even more with decades of isolation (from the whole bloody west world of USA vassal countries. If for anything USA will "go to hell" for that...religious as they are.
Now when they taste defeat they'll do the same with Iraq and Afghanistan. They wrecked country and they will isolate it and force western countries to do it. With Iraq it's going to be harder because of oil that everyone wants and would lay in bad with a devil to get it. Afghanistan will be forgotten...in the main time they (USA) organized opium production to thrive...HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY...
Posted by: vbo | May 28 2007 11:08 utc | 10
I mean, losing in Iraq is rather like losing in Vietnam. And what was striking in the aftermath of Vietnam was how little damage there was to, you know, the larger American position in the world - a couple of years of recrimination and then they picked themselves up, shake themselves off and they're back where they were before.
Sorry, but I profoundly disagree that Iraq is like Vietnam in this respect. The stakes were much higher. The loss to US prestige and power has been incalulable and will continue to be so. And I believe it will turn out to be permanent, as other superpowers, both regional and global, are repositioning themselves in light of the US debacle.
And this:
Well, Iraq in 20 years' time will probably be like Iraq 30 years ago. I mean, you can't ruin a country that really is so basic in its organization. There was no superstructure to destroy so it doesn't take much to put Afghanistan back on track. I mean, it won't be a very attractive track to other people but, you know, that's what they've always been like and I think they could put that back together again quite easily.
The country that was Iraq has been ruined. You cannot kill that many people, including an entire professional class, cause the exodus of that many people, destroy a historical and cultural heritage, disband a national army, drastically overhaul an economy, incite long-term ethnic hatred, traumatize an entire populace, radically change the regional balance of power, and... and... and... and then have everything "just go back to the way it was." That's ludicrous. What will arise in its place I do not know.
However that the US will ultimately lose in Iraq, I agree with. I think its loss was predetermined from the outset in that it went to war on false, illegal, and immoral pretenses, pretending to "help" when in fact it wanted to grab, at any price, the spoils.
Posted by: Bea | May 28 2007 13:00 utc | 11
Can anyone tell me the HTML code for striking out text with a line?
Posted by: Bea | May 28 2007 13:02 utc | 12
hello Bea - like this?
STRIKE at the start of the phrase
/STRIKE at the end
enclose both STRIKE & /STRIKE within < >
Posted by: jcairo | May 28 2007 13:36 utc | 13
Peris Troika- you mean Cheney's face like this?
here's the second one with others
I think this one is the most realistic image
Posted by: fauxreal | May 28 2007 15:46 utc | 16
@Antifa: Classic case of projection. What Cheney really meant to say was: "The Muslim American way of life is non-negotiable."
Thanks j cairo. I've wanted to know how to srikeout text for a long time! B, is it possible to add that to the little HTML tags key above the Post a Comment field?
Posted by: Bea | May 28 2007 16:12 utc | 17
Thanks j cairo. I've wanted to know how to srikeout text for a long time!
me too!
Posted by: annie | May 28 2007 17:25 utc | 19
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I'll be so glad when I don't have to look at that face anymore. And to think it's not even photoshopped.
Good one b.
Posted by: beq | May 27 2007 19:00 utc | 1