Dick Cheney’s World: Killing Iraqi’s and American Soldier’s saved lives

(10 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

I don’t know what is worse, having politicians who spout this crap, or, having a part of our populace stupid enough to believe it.

The Big Dick speaks:

CHENEY: The problem we were faced with in the aftermath of 9/11 was the possibility of another 9/11-style attack, only with much deadlier technology, a 9/11 with nukes or biological agents of some kind. That concern drove a lot of our thinking in that period, in those months after 9/11. … I think it was a sound decision to make. I think it was an important part of our overall strategy in the Global War on Terror. I think it saved lives.

There are times that I simply feel like I’m shooting GOP fish in a barrel, but, here we go…

1991-1992.  Saddam Hussein’s failed invasion of Kuwait leaves him locked within his own borders.  Worse, his military capability is decimated from communications arrays, radar sites, SAM sites, armor divisions, and his troops morale destroyed.

1993-2000.  The United States instituted “No-Fly” zones, which were never agreed upon by the United Nations, constrains Saddamn Hussein to the central area of Iraq.  Iraqi troops have to ration food, or, steal it, in order to eat.  What little there was of an Iraqi Air Force was wiped out.  

2001.  With Iraq surrounded, his army in decimated and in disarray, his troops starving, his chemical ordnance all but destroyed by the UN weapons inspectors, having no viable nuclear program, and yet, with all of that, Cheney found Saddam Hussein to be the world’s biggest threat.

2003.  We invade Iraq.  American and NATO forces all but swipe aside the resistance.  We depose the government, install our own Provisional Government, open prisons, and go about killing any Iraqi who dares to take up arms against our invasion.

Over 4,600 American service members have lost their lives.

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi’s have lost their lives with tens of thousands still imprisoned and millions displaced.

These deaths were the result of invading a nation that had no tie to 9/11, a nation who no control over anything but the central part of their country, and whose military was decimated.

But, the Big Dick states that invading Iraq “saved lives”, ostensibly trying to keep the Iraq/9/11 terrorism connection alive.

This lie, because that is what it is — a lie — is trying to state:

– An attack by a terrorist group who has no ties to Iraq kills over 3,000.

So, America should:

– Invade a country who no responsibility for 9/11, kill hundreds of thousands of people to include old men, women and children, imprison tens of thousands more, and displace millions.

– In the process, we lost 4,600+ troops with tens of thousands wounded, some of those maimed for life and many with PTDS.

And, because we did this.. we SAVED LIVES.. just as long as you don’t count OUR OWN soldiers deaths, much less the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi’s, as “saving lives.”

Our government under George Bush was run by psychopaths.

UPDATE:  I’m watching Rachel Maddow and she just showed video of the Big Dick saying there was NO evidence that Saddam Hussein had ties to 9/11.  No, I’m not posting hours of Cheney saying just that.

On the bad note, no he thinks our only recourse is execution.  

We arrested tens of thousands.  We tortured many of them.  Abused many more.  Many of whom were totally innocent of anything… yet… we must simply kill them.

I wonder… would the Big Dick prefer ovens, firing squad… what?