retroactive scare tactics

Now this is really something (mq)... First there was light, and it was good. Then there was the US Presidential election of 2000 and things were confusing. Then there was September 11th, 2001 and things were terrifying. Then there was the Patriot Act, then there was the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and things were supposed to be safer. In fact, it was the invasion of Iraq that was supposed to do precisely that.

It was committed in order to keep WMDs out of the hands of terrorists. It was done to prevent Saddam Hussein from aiding and abetting terrorists. It was done to avenge the acts of 11th Sep, 2001 and show those same terrorists we mean business. We all know now that, save for the last point, none of this is true. We now know that, according to many reports, the US is in fact less safe. We now know that there were no significant amounts of WMDs in Iraq and there were no tangible connections to terrorist groups, specifically al Qaida.

Instead of admitting to any of this, the Bush administration, or Team Bush as I like to call them, has instead decided to focus our attention not only on John Kerry's perceived weaknesses in handling terror as it exists now, post-Iraq invasion, as it will come to be (which, in his own words, not even W can predict...), but now, from our Veep, how it would have been.

This is either truly amazing or truly a new low. Or both. Our Prez has admitted, twice, that he can not in fact see into the future, no matter his connection with the Divine One, however, the ability to not only see into the future, but as well, a future that might have been is a special power that does not elude his second in command. VP Dick Cheney has the absolute fucking gall to come out on a public stage and declare, after telling people that voting for Kerry will indeed put US into peril, and speculate on a world wherein Kerry was president. In Cheney's crystal ball this is a world where tyrannies and dictators run helter-skelter across the globe, killing indiscriminately and handing out WMDs like so many lethal Pez. Speaking of WMDs, this quote is EXTREMELY interesting from Cheney's deranged world view; concerning Hussein and his role in Kerry's world, Cheney had this to say, "He might well have nuclear weapons," Wait a minute. Isn't that one of the MAIN POINTS in TB's trump hand for justifying the invasion of Iraq? Cheney actually came out on national television and told all of US that Hussein was creating a nuclear weapons program. Remember the yellow cake, the aluminum tubes? And this was happening in the TB world, not some fantastical Kerry world.

What the fuck is wrong with these people? More importantly, what is wrong with their rabid followers who actually not only believe this shit, but will not question anything they say? As long as Fox News backs it up, then that's allright with them. Holy crap, I have never been so terrified about an unknown future in my life.