Cheney the Vampire (Part 2)

We are currently involved in two unresolved conflicts: Afghanistan and Iraq. There is no end in sight for either war and no timeline has been mandated. If you go to One Pissed-Off Veteran’s blog on any Friday he lists the number of US casualties for the past week. Yet, despite these weekly casket counts and the surety of future counts, the Vampire Cheney wants to open a new front. He wants more blood – and more and more. He can’t stop because he has a sickness. I contend that it is perverted to commit people to endless and eternal warfare – plain and simple.

Would Iran really pose a threat to the US or Israel if they had a nuclear weapon? Of course they would not and you might do well to review the Trident class submarine if you have forgotten about the US nuclear capability. But what it does mean is that they may adequately defend themselves if they should be invaded or, in the unlikely event that they do choose to use their weapon offensively, that they will be annihilated. Not just by us either. And, make no mistake that, when the US mobilizes its nuclear-capable forces, smaller countries do suddenly panic such as occurred with North Korea in the 1976 “Poplar Incident” in the DMZ with North Korea. Remember too, that a 40-year Cold War with the Soviet Union ended without a single nuclear strike.

Is Iran helping supply the insurgency? Of course they are - along with a lot of others. Every one wants to make a buck off this and everyone will claim security issues. This is what governments do including our own. We did this in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union. And remember, it was a US-backed Saddam Hussein that launched a war against Iran. So is Iran a little paranoid? Of course they are. Do we need to launch a war against Iran? Absolutely not.

As usual, there is quite a lot of rhetoric on both sides with absolutely no statesmanship from either government. We the people are expected to be very quiet sheep. And anyway, as far as the US rhetoric goes, why are we supposed to believe this administration. They’ve already misrepresented the case for the invasion of Iraq and now we are expected to believe their new allegations and assertions based, once again, on hearsay – not evidence. Even were they to present evidence, their credibility in any court of law would be negligible considering the travesty of their prior assertions.

Yet the foolish Vampire Cheney, arising from his own casket, has decided that molesting yet another victim is perfectly acceptable – perhaps his dreams of the “New American Century” are forever awash in bloodshed and screams. But imagine a world where every person is armed with a wooden stake, silver crosses, and plenty of garlic. The clever vampire evolves with the times and, instead of risking injury to his self, opens a blood bank to collect blood legally. He keeps some units for himself and sells the others to hospitals for about $200 a unit just like the American Red Cross does. Violence averted, money made, people happy.

I guess the Vampire Cheney has lusted for blood so long, in the dark, he hopes that no light is shed on the reality of his newest prey in the Middle-East. But, in his secret sarcophagus, he hopes and prays for immortality by spilling the blood of others no matter where they come from.

- Just a peasant

Cheney the Vampire (Part 1)

Is it necessary that, just because a different nation acquires nuclear capacity, we must go to war with it?

There are few people in this world as blood thirsty and disgusting to me as Dick Cheney. So now this emperor pretender has risen from his crypt to gurgle messages of fear and war to us yet again. We owe this night's visit to the nuclear aspirations of the Iranian military. But must we fear it? Let me tell you why there is little to fear and why Dick Cheney is perverted with his lust for blood.

As technologies advance, the more antiquated technologies are eventually either acquired by less developed states or those states are able to replicate them. It was therefore, only a matter of time before some less developed countries acquired nuclear technology.

It will be argued that the nation of Iran has a diametrically aligned agenda or an irreconcilable incompatibility with the United States. However, just because a nation has a different philosophy from another does not mean that they will engage in war. This is a historical reality and certainly just as valid as saying that war is normal and necessary. But what about countries whose governments are fundamentally different from ours? Consider China. We were at war with them, the Korean War, only fifty years ago and in which, between 30,000 - 50,000 US troops died in a three year period. Yet today, despite a bloody conflict, the fact that they are a Communist state, and that they also possess nuclear weapon technology, we are not only de facto married business partners but they have even garnered NTR (Most-Favored Nation Trading) status.

However, you might argue that the need for privatization ensuring her own economic survival has eroded China’s political antagonism to Western capitalism and that, with Iran, we have a nation that is religiously and diametrically opposed to the United States and Israel. Okay, fair enough. Despite the fact that the US was founded as a secular nation, as evidenced in the Treaty of Tripoli, I’ll entertain that we can be considered a Christian state by predominately Muslim nations. But I will then point to our Muslim allies such as Turkey, a member of NATO since the 1960’s and to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE. More importantly, I will point to Pakistan. We are not at war with them despite their strong relationships to the Taliban of Afghanistan and their possession of nuclear weapons. Nobody seems concerned that this nation will turn its weapons upon Western nations though it has expressed, in no uncertain terms, its determination to use weapons against India defensively.

Tomorrow Part 2

-Just a peasant

Five "Shes" I’ve Known

She said
We’re free to do what ever we want.
I said
It’s not free when other people are paying for it.

She said
I’m tired of all this Buddha shit!
I said
Then why’d you give him an excuse to start preaching?

She said
I don’t watch television.
I said
Neither did Adolf Hitler.

She said
I went to one of the best universities in the country.
I said
Garbage in, garbage out.

She said
Why do you hate me so much?
I said
Only because I loved you once.

- Just a peasant

Painting of Two Tahitians by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)