Please Give Us More War, Or At Least Tell Us How Great War Is

Ben Smith's latest Politico blog post is worth a read if you haven't already. For some reason, maybe because he's deranged, Dick Cheney hasn't realized that his opinion no longer matters. A man with five deferments from military service and who hasn't seen an ounce of combat a day in his life (unless you consider the time he shot his friend in the face with a shotgun while bird hunting) can't get enough Glorious War footage on his Fox News teevee set. Now that no one is listening to him, he's decided to travel around the country and tell people that invasion is the only thing that can possibly save us from annihilation by the evildoers.

"Everybody's in a giant conspiracy to achieve a different objective than the one we want to achieve," Cheney said.

The negotiations are "bound to fail unless we are perceived as very credible" in threatening military action against Iran, he said.

"Most of the other nations out there are willing to live with a nuclear-armed Iran" he said, citing France, Germany and the United Kingdom in particular.

Cheney was echoing his daughter's comments during the formal debate at Rockefeller University on Manhattan's East Side.

It's all about talking tough. Of course someone who ran and hid when his country drafted him five times into the military would have to compensate his lack of duty by proving how macho he is with tough, manly words of Forever War. Just as long as he's not doing the fighting that is.