Dick Cheney is immortal...
This from 2007:
Lately, word has been spreading that US Vice President Dick Cheney, who was recently the target of an allegedly unsuccessful Taliban assassination attempt in Afghanistan, was in fact hit by the bomb. Eyewitness accounts of surviving bomb victims have reported seeing Cheney hit point blank by the explosion (a suicide bomber-beverage server), which they said sent the 74 year old vice president flying across the room and into a cement wall, partially knocking it down. Witnesses go on to say that while several blast-charred bodies surrounded and even partially covered Cheney, he was seen calmy lifting the bodies off himself, standing up, brushing the dirt and bloody debris from his suit, and walking away in the direction of President Karzai's office.
Do you believe there is any possibility that Dick Cheney is immortal? Is there any chance that Dick Cheney might be dead already, and has arisen Undead?
Will this be the fate of our nation forever?
With respect to trying to define that as torture, I come back to the proposition torture was what the al Qaeda terrorists did to 3,000 Americans on 9/11… It worked… I would do it again in a minute. -- Dick Cheney
Woe and anguish below:
Are we doomed forever to be a nation of empire, which causes endless suffering to other peoples -- particularly to people of color?
I look to the Congo and the legacy of THE DULLES -- John Foster and Allen Dulles. John Foster and Allen are dead but their legacy lives on and on in Iran, in Guatemala, Honduras, the Congo (and other parts of the world):
As direct targets of men at war, women and girls suffer terribly. The Interahamwe have been singled out as the worst perpetrators of atrocities, but every armed group is guilty of violating women. Men singly or in gangs rape women and girls of all ages. (Recorded victims range in age from 2 months to 83 years.) Men also cut off women's nipples or breasts, mutilate or cut off external genitalia, and eviscerate living pregnant women to remove and kill fetuses. After rape, men commonly insert foreign objects into the vagina: sticks, sand, rocks, knives, burning wood or charcoal, or molten plastic made by melting shopping bags. Killing the rape victim by firing a handgun or rifle inserted in the vagina is a common practice; some victims have survived. Rapists have blinded many women, apparently to prevent identification, and left countless others to die in the forest after chopping off their arms and/or legs. Soldiers also abduct women, and especially girls as young as 10 or 11, as captive "wives." Some escaped women and girls report being chained to trees for months, released only to be gang-raped, day after day. Many report witnessing the death of other captive women and girls, murdered as disciplinary examples or abandoned in the forest when they were no longer "serviceable."
And our carefully hand-selected judiciary ensure that this can go on and on: corporations are people, money is speech, the people do not have the immutable right to vote even though this was once said:
Our democratic-republican government is based on the idea of the natural right of every individual member thereof to a voice and a vote in making and executing the laws. We assert the province of government to be to secure the people in the enjoyment of their unalienable rights. We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life. liberty and property. And when 100 or 1,000,000 people enter into a free government, they do not barter away their natural rights; they simply pledge themselves to protect each other in the enjoyment of them, through prescribed judicial and legislative tribunals. They agree to abandon the methods of brute force in the adjustment of their differences, and adopt those of civilization.
And, furthermore, Dick Cheney totally funked out on maintaining our national security in 2001 and he should keep his damned mouth shut.