Cheney Stoops to a New Low
by Matthew Rothschild
Dick Cheney, who had his conscience surgically removed three decades ago, has stooped to a new low.
He said that if Bush doesn't win in November, "then the danger is we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating."
This scare tactic, that only Bush can protect the United States, is amazing for its audacity.
First of all, for months now, the Bush Administration has been warning us that we might be attacked before the election. So then it would be whose fault?
And Bush and Cheney have not done everything to protect us, as they've left our ports and our nuclear and chemical plants open to attack, and they have not safeguarded the enriched uranium and the suitcase nuclear bombs of the former Soviet Union.
Then there's the Iraq War, which has made us a lot less safe, engendering hatred of America throughout the Arab and Muslim world.
And let's not forget, Bush and Cheney themselves were the ones in power when the United States was attacked in a devastating way on 9/11.
Are they ever going to be held responsible for that?
Cheney himself was supposed to be in charge of national preparedness, as of May 2001. And he didn't do squat.
This from the 9/11 Commission Report: "President Bush announced that Vice President Cheney would himself lead an effort looking at preparations for managing a possible attack by weapons of mass destruction and at more general problems of national preparedness." It took Cheney a few months simply to get an admiral to head the effort, the report said, concluding: "The Vice President's task force was just getting under way when the 9/11 attack occurred."
What right does Cheney have to criticize anyone about leaving the United States vulnerable to a devastating attack?