For this weekend: Truth and Vigilance

Forget torture for a moment.

Vice-President Dick Cheney is verbally attacking President Obama as putting the nation in harm's way.The most ludicrous of all the arguments used to try and salvage at least some portion of George W. Bush’s reputation and legacy has always been “he kept us safe.” To even begin to accept that, you have to pretend that 9/11 never happened and that his flawed and failed administration took office on September 12, 2001.

Read the rest of this concise reubttal of Cheny's self-serving amnesia at
I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing: Life in a Post-Rational World
23 May 2009