Dick(head) of the Week - Dick Cheney

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The award for this week is a long time coming to Dick "Head" Cheney (the Halliburton crap alone qualifies him for the Dickhead Hall of Fame), our esteemed Vice President and draft dodger who had "other priorities during Vietnam." And yet like so many chickenhawk/turkeys he's quick to send troops into harm's way or as an anti-euphemist might say, "to their deaths." Well, the Bush administration, always putting a compassionate face on its most controversial zealotry, now have The Dick defending Gitmo. He says we're treating the prisoners there "better than any other government would." With reports of widespread abuses, "The" maintains that we're treating the detainees humanely, even though we don't have to, i.e., the Geneva Convention doesn't apply. Well, done, Dick(head). Aim low. We treat our detainees better than they do in, say, Saudi Arabia or Darfur. Yeah, at least Idi Amin's not in charge. I mean, look, Bush's America sure as heckfire isn't Franco's Spain, and if you want to see real abuses, check out Ferdinand Marcos and Augusto Pinochet. Sure, we backed those regimes, but we didn't really mean it. Good strategy, Dick. Bring on the comparisons to the Killing Fields, and what we've got in Cuba is a regular Sunday in the Park with Dubya. Go fuck yourself, Mr. Vice President. Which reminds me: I'm still waiting to hear you apologize to Jim Jeffords. With all the grovelling you should be participating in, that's the fucking least you can do.