FRAMESHOP:FRAMESHOP: CHENEY'S "STOMACH"

Since President Bush's speech to the nation, the White House has waged a propaganda war against the American people, accusing anyone who dissents of advocating failure.

This cynicism is made perfectly clear in this recent assertion from Cheney:

"If the United States doesn't have the stomach to finish the task in Iraq, we put at risk what we've done in all of those other locations."

Through this "stomach," phrase, we see Cheney once again accusing the American people of being cowardly.

Unfortunately, Dick Cheney understands "courage" as a willingness to send other people's children to their deaths.

And yet the American people are growing increasingly tired of our own Vice President insulting us for participating in the debate, particularly when the problems we face in Iraq are clearly the product of his arrogance and ineptitude.

With this increasing skepticism toward Cheney from the public, we can begin to see that the Vice President's outbursts are in fact a smokescreen to cover up his willingness to flaunt any oversight from the people--to claim that the executive branch, has the power not only to hurl military might willy-nilly, but to use the bully pulpit of his office to spit on the U.S. electorate.

He has no such power.

© 2007 Jeffrey Feldman, Frameshop