| Show Over soldiers dead nearly 1 trillion Floyd W. W Masters Special to The Globe The most recent polls indicate 70 percent of Americans say the Iraq War Var was not worth the cost of lives and treasure So said Vice President Dick Cheney to an ABC reporter Martha The indignation was clear on Cheney's face when he was asked the obvious follow up question from You dont don't care what the American people think The contemptuous Cheney slouched in his chair a true manifestation of pompousness and petulance as his clinched his thin lips tightly together ashe as ashe ashe he replied I think polls are important In his predictable and condescending manner Cheney concluded the interview with the usual spin that we have been subjected to for the last seven years This is an example of just how disconnected the administration of President George W Bush is from the American citizens that it was hired to represent To imply that Bush and his band of cronies have disdain for the public is to state the obvious The families of the brave soldiers can take solace in that they are not the ones who suffer most 6 According to Cheney I think the president bares a lot lotof lotof of the pain This came from the man who deliberately with ideological intent misled those same military families Indeed the entire country into a war with no end in sight Cheney and Bush have been connected at the hip on the Iraq War Var from a policy standpoint since its inception A creation of convenience the Iraq War became the frontier in which Cheney and his fellow Neo-Con's Neo would utilize the tragedy of Sept 11 and the feeding frenzy of patriotism that ensued War Var was inevitable and justified against the targets in Afghanistan with the support of the United Nations however Iraq was to become the business of war The propaganda machine manufactured evidence ranging from weapons laboratories located on train cars aluminum rods and yellow cake from Niger Somewhere between the rhetoric and the no-bid no contracts to Halliburton American soldiers are dead and over have been wounded according to the State Department Estimates of two million Iraqi refugees have fled amidst the sectarian violence that has ensued since the mission accomplished proclamation from Bush on the aircraft carrier The estimates vary to as-to how many Iraqis have been killed Estimates range from to 19 million depending on the source The policies in Iraq have changed From the war on terror to the global struggle against violent extremism the Bush Administration has attempted to affiliate Iraq with Osama Bin Laden In the over documents that have been recovered from the regime none have revealed ties to Osama bin Laden or al This war will be the next presidents president's problem to paraphrase George W. W Bush Meanwhile he and Cheney have succeeded in destroying a sovereign country and our economy The war in Iraq co costs ts an n estimated 58 billion a month A total amount of S SI 1 1 trillion is s rapidly approaching It is of no consequence to the Wyoming native Cheney after Jan 20 2009 He will just ride off into the sunset rich and pretentious If Cheney had a conscience the lives and limbs of the brave troops and innocent Iraqis would mean more than just another annoying question |
