In the past week Dick Cheney said that the tragedy in Benghazi is one of the worst incidents he has seen.
Well Dick, apparently you forgot that on September ,11, 2001 four planes were hijacked in the United States, two hit the World Trade Centers and one was crashed to the ground by the passengers in Pennsylvania and one flew into the Pentagon. Well over 3000 people died that day and the president was forced to stay in the air for most of that day for his safety.
That seems like a pretty bad incident to me that really beats Benghazi. The trouble with his statement isn’t that he is wrong,but, what is worse is he has such a distaste for our president he would say something so utterly foolish.
Politics is killing our nation and Dick Cheney just proved it. He did not make that statement from a point of fact. He was Vice President on September 11 so he is one who should have no issue knowing how serious an incident is. No he said that because he is a Republican who dislikes our president.
Yes there, was some outrage over the statement, but not enough. A former Vice president compared an embassy attack to September 11th. The outrage every American should have expressed should have shaken the planet, but, it did not. We just shrugged it off.
We do that a lot now a days….. shrug things off. Voting rights obstacles, war on the poor, wars on terror, drugs, Iraq, Afghanistan. We just let it go because we feel powerless to stop it, The politicians don’t listen or care, and if that is how you feel, you are right.
When background checks were proposed, an estimated 90% of us thought ” Hey that is a good idea!” Well so did congress until it came time to vote and then they didn’t like it anymore.
We have people who lost their homes by illegal bank practices, large sections of the country still damaged from hurricanes from almost 8 years ago still not repaired. We have veterans who fought for our country sleeping in the streets and Benghazi is the worst incident Cheney can recall?
Why do we put up with this foolishness? Is it because we are numb to our politicians present and former saying whatever they feel with no notice?
I don’t think that is it. I think we have become so beaten down and been lied too so often by so many that we elect people the way we go to the grocery stores and randomly buy milk. No real thought, just grab the jug and put it in the cart. That is he same level of interest we have in our government and former politicians’.
We will wake up one of these days and realize that it is the big things that do count, not the petty ones like who holds an umbrella over the Presidents head in the rain.
And when we awake from this slumber, or more like a coma really, we will rub our eyes and look around and say “What the hell happened?” and the answers will be in the books.
The citizens gave up and took a nap and the politicians took the reins and as we speak are driving the stagecoach right over a cliff and if we don’t pull back the reins. over the cliff we go.
The worst incident Cheney can remember? I guess I can add amnesia to his other health issues.
joelmerritz 