Bush, Rummy & Cheney: Losers & Liars

Speaking at the Pentagon today, Secretary Rumsfeld offered his vision of a free and Democratic Iraq--a country that doesn’t use chemical weapons on its neighbors or its citizens, doesn’t provide training facilities to terrorists, and doesn’t fund terrorist groups, among other things.

Apparently, Rummy is yet another Republican smoking powerful drugs.

His Iraq hallucinations must have been the same that he and other hapless neocons were suffering before they invaded Iraq without any plan to secure the peace--before they disbanded the Iraqi army, before they left all the weapon stockpiles unguarded, and before they brought in (without competitive bidding) greedy corporations to overcharge our government while letting the Iraqi infrastructure go unrepaired.

Now, trying to imagine an Iraq without terrorist training camps is virtually impossible. Trying to imagine Iraq without civil war, without neighbor killing neighbor, is virtually impossible. The daily executions and reprisal killings are a monument to the incompetence of Rumsfeld and his peers.

But reality has never been important to Rummy or the Bush administration.

After yesterday’s bold resolution by Senator Feingold of Wisconsin to censure the president for illegally wiretapping American citizens, Vice President Cheney said that Feingold was helping terrorists by protecting their ability to communicate. Which, of course, had nothing to do with the actual content of Feingold's proposal.

Dark-hearted spinmeister Cheney constantly re-casts the words of others, and his characterization of the Feingold resolution is completely dishonest and misleading, ignoring the reality that Feingold was addressing…

Since when is the president above the laws enacted by Congress?

It is an important enough question to at least merit investigation by independent experts, but the Republicans in Congress, Cheney among them, have already suffered such a massive storm of horrible publicity, scandals, misdeeds, botched policies, etc., that they apparently can’t afford to acknowledge, let alone investigate another possible debacle.

Too bad. Protecting the Constitution is more important than protecting the president. Especially when we are talking about George W. Bush, who has screwed up just about everything he has tried. What a mess.

I’ll take the honest talk of Feingold over the lies and fantasies of the hapless, inept, dishonest Bush Administration any day.