That's Why Everyone Calls Him "Dick."

   On a previous blog, I wrote a somewhat scathing commentary about George W. Bush, and my surprise that there were still people that would honor him by building a Presidential library bearing his name, even though over an 8 year period the only things he demonstrated that he was a master at were deception, manipulation, and treachery. Otherwise he acted like a spoiled child, or an illiterate moron. 

   The years spent watching that insufferable idiot took its toll on me.  At the end of his second term I was so overjoyed that he was leaving, I didn't care if a spider monkey got elected, as long as it wasn't George W. Bush.

    Here we are, four years since baby Bush ruled the roost, and I believe my opinion of him has softened a bit; by no means am I giving him a pass for his belligerence, and treachery, but I think I gave him credit for being more intelligent than he actually is. 

   It was apparent from early on that not only did Dick Cheney have Bush's ear, he seems to have had virtually unlimited influence and control over all decisions made by Jr. While still a candidate for President in 2000, Jr. asked Cheney to help him find a suitable candidate for the office of Vice President, and after what I can only guess was an exhaustive search, found nobody to fill the position except he himself. Even better than that, he already knew just the right folks needed to round out Bush's administration, how convenient was that! 

   It was obvious early on that Cheney was President in everything but title, and that old Georgie was nothing but a vessel that the Dickster used to gain power.  However, the sheer hollowness of depth demonstrated by Bush was nothing short of amazing. You couldn't have found a better straw man if you looked for a thousand years.

    Now this political union may look innocent and conveniently haphazard to the naive, but rest assured, the powers that be had very carefully plotted, planned, and put into effect this diabolical duo's coupling for the express purpose of fulfilling an elaborate agenda that they had lying in wait, for just the right moment to arrive, and now here it was. 

   They had an idiot that had name recognition and political experience, but had the leadership skills of a carrot, and would be more than eager to delegate any decision making to others around him. They had a gang of fellow conspirators that were hand picked years ago, and standing by for their cue to enter the scene. 

   Those criminals included the likes of Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Clarke, Karl Rove, and many others. These sinister players, and the GOP leadership they controlled, had spent the better part of two decades slowly building the Republican party up until it became a powerhouse in Washington D.C., and in a majority of the states. The time had finally arrived for this cabal of traitors to act, they managed to rig the election for their stolen victory, and now were in a position to initiate the sinister agenda that they had planned for so long. 

   Their plan was the overthrow and takeover of Iraq, but they needed a plausible excuse for the invasion that the American public would accept. Fast forward to 2001, it became known that an attack on the World Trade Center was imminent, and the method of delivery was to be airliners crashed into the towers, and perhaps on buildings in Washington D.C. 

   Now these evil men are a lot of things, but stupid is not one of them. They saw the first attack on the WTC, and the public outrage was minimal. They saw our embassies getting bombed and again, public outcry was barely heard, then the USS Cole gets blown up, again nothing. They knew that what it would take to stir America to arms would need to be spectacular, and with that they set out to ensure that the attack on the towers would be a huge success, with a level of destruction the world had never seen. 

   Bush immediately declared "war on terror" and claimed Presidential powers afforded to him only during a state of war. Constitutional rights were curtailed and suspended in the name of security, legislation such as the "PATRIOT ACT" were hurriedly pushed through Congress, and if you questioned ANYTHING the government decreed, you were labeled "un-American" and chastised accordingly. 

   Now that Cheney and his minions created complete chaos at home and abroad, they could put forth the lies needed to invade Iraq. Those lies were that Saddam Hussein secretly supported and trained the terrorists involved in 9/11, and later, that he was amassing weapons of mass destruction that he was planning to use against the United States. 

   With unbelievable manipulation of supposed evidence, and lies that were epic in number and audacity, they put forth their diabolical agenda, and the rest as they say, is history. Cheney and his cronies in the military industrial complex made their billions of dollars, got control of Iraqi oil, and all it cost was a few hundred thousand lives, a few trillions of dollars, and all the prestige that the United States once held in the eyes of the world. 

   The treason most certainly didn't stop there, over the next five years Bush, Cheney and the GOP leadership would turn a surplus of hundreds of billions of dollars into a deficit of trillions of dollars. They would deregulate industries controlled by their corporate crony friends, and stifle the authority of other government agencies to enforce regulations if those regulations interfered with the profitability of those corporations. 

   These complicit traitors not only stood by and profited from their insidious actions, they facilitated the ability of their financial overlords to bring this nation to its economic knees, destroying the security and life savings of millions upon millions of Americans, costing millions of people their homes, their jobs, and their dignity.

   But there is no need to worry about Bush and Cheney and the bankers and Wall street, they have lots of money, and they'll be just fine. 

   Even though some years have passed, my belief is that Bush, Cheney, Rove, and their criminal enterprise should stand trial and go to prison where they belong. I'm not naive, and I doubt any one of these pieces of shit will ever see a prison cell, but I can promise you that if I witness any of them suffering intensely, the only thing you'll see me doing is laughing.

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