Open letter to Dick Cheney

Dear Mr. Cheney, (once appointed and once unlawfully elected ex vice president of the United States)
You sir, are a lying, military service dodging chicken shit actively doing all you can to undermine a duly elected president of the United States, and our national security with your persistent pessimistic fear mongering. You show a true lack of class the way you berate a sitting president elected by a vast majority. It is classless at best and treasonous at worst. During your time as vice president, if a former president or vice president would have been half as critical of your administration as you are of the current one, they would have been labeled traitors, terrorist appeasers, and condemned for demoralizing the troops.

As I'm sure you are aware: in May 2001, several months before 9/11 the Bush administration announced that you were to head our country's task force on domestic terrorism, energy, and global warming. While in this capacity you never as much as organized a single meeting with other department heads involved with our national security. Even though memos and reports chocked full of warnings and Intel on suspicious activity were presented to you, the secretary of state, and the president.
For example: FBI memo from summer 2001 was released that warned of the dangers of Middle Eastern men going to flight school and gaining skills to hijack planes, and the dangers of the al Qaeda network carrying out such hijackings. Moreover, the arrest of Zacarias Moussaouri, the alleged 20th al Qaeda hijacker, in Minnesota in late August 2001, who had been taking flying lessons and acting suspiciously, should have raised warning signals. Over the summer of 2001, there had been reports that there were dangers of an airplane terrorist attack on the G8 economic summit in Genoa that GeorgeW. Bush attended. There were reportedly so many intelligence reports circulating in summer 2001 of the dangers of imminent terrorist attacks on the U.S. that a government official Richard Clarke, charged with coordinating anti-terrorist responses, warned FBI, aviation, INS, and other crucial government agencies to be on the highest alert and not to take vacations during a six week period over the summer. John Ashcroft, U.S.Attorney General, was ordered to take government jets instead of commercial airlines and the FAA passed down several alerts to the commercial airlines.

And now you have the balls to show your face again and again taking credit for 7 years without another terrorist attack on our soil. Under your watch sir, our country experienced the worst terror attack in our history. Why don't you ever take responsibility for the gross lapse in security that preceded 9/11? We continually hear you and your ilk complain that those who don't agree with you suffer from a September tenth mentality. It seems to me that it was you that either knowingly or unknowingly disregarded warnings. Then after 9/11 when you crawled out from the safety of your underground bunker, began the fear mongering in order to terrorize the American people and their representatives into rubber stamping every disgusting piece of legislation you wanted passed. You rail against Obama and claim that his desire to close Guantanamo and cease the enhanced interrogation has somehow made us less safe. Hogwash. Your neo-con cabal that chose to invade 2 sovereign countries is what has made us less safe. (Afghanistan, in the failed attempt to capture one man and Iraq because it had " good targets" and the rebuilding contracts for your buddies would be enormous)
If heaven forbid this country is attacked again I for one will place the blame solely on your shoulders. I figure if you can say that Obama's efforts to undo immoral policies you help put in place is making out country more susceptible to a terrorist attack with no evidence or logical basis for your assertion then I can say that your ignoring of good solid police and intelligence work holds you directly responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Instead of perpetuating the myth that your administration's civil rights abuses and pre-emptive war is what has kept us safe why don't you tell the truth? Since 9/11 their have been several terrorists plots thwarted in other countries as well as this one and in every single case it was FBI and police work that uncovered the plot.
Most recently:
May 21, 2009 Posted: 9:35 am May 21, 2009
Four homegrown Muslim terrorists on a mission from hell were arrested last night as they planted what they thought were high-powered plastic explosives at two Bronx synagogues, authorities said. The men were also allegedly plotting to use a Stinger missile to shoot a military plane out of the sky in upstate New York immediately after the bombings. Mayor Bloomberg said, "The good news is that the NYPD and the FBI did exactly what they're trained to do and they prevented what would have been a terrible event in our city."

As far as your Hawkish war rhetoric is concerned, it amazes me that you can talk so tough and use our service men as pawns in your game of military industrial complex chess. It amazes me because you never served a day in the military. The only SOB in your neo-con hierarchy that did serve was Rumsfeld, and he was a only a flight instructor and a naval aviator during peace time. So now I must call you a chicken shit chicken hawk.

In closing, your ridiculous defense of torture sickens reasonable people and has been proven over and over again by experts in the field to be counter productive. We now know why you subverted our justice system in order to get it accomplished. You are an neither a patriot nor an honest man, Dick Cheney and this world would be a better place without the likes of you. Now please crawl back under the rock from which you came.

Sincerely,
DaG