In Dick Cheney's America

You Do Not Exist.

In Dick Cheney's America the real world does not exist. Facts are irrelevant: Two plus two equals Jebus and gravity is optional if one of Dubya's signing statements says it is, which is why the inhumane ideology of Neo-Conservatism married up so perfectly with the inhumane theology of Christopatic Conservatism: because both groups are violently delusional in exactly the same way, and both groups hate the guardians of fact and reason with equal frenzy.

In Dick Cheney's America, the real world is simply an infinitely malleable, three-dimensional projection of whatever the latest ideologically incarnation of "Team B"

or the "Project for a New American Century" or McCarthyism or the Spanish Inquisition momentarily needs it to be.

And because Dick Cheney's ideology is oligarchy, he and his co-conspirators picked the oil-richest target available; one already crippled by embargo, pre-demonized and fattened up for the kill.

After that, it didn't matter who hit us, or when.

Of even if (from The Independent):

Bush 'plotted to lure Saddam into war with fake UN plane'

By Andy McSmith

Friday, 3 February 2006

George Bush considered provoking a war with Saddam Hussein's regime by flying a United States spyplane over Iraq bearing UN colours, enticing the Iraqis to take a shot at it, according to a leaked memo of a meeting between the US President and Tony Blair.

The two leaders were worried by the lack of hard evidence that Saddam Hussein had broken UN resolutions, though privately they were convinced that he had. According to the memorandum, Mr Bush said: "The US was thinking of flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours. If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach."

And when the Cheney Torture Administration couldn't head-fake Saddam Hussein into attacking us?

From an important article by Joe Conason at Salon:

We tortured to justify war

Dick Cheney keeps saying "enhanced interrogation" was used to stop imminent attacks, but evidence is mounting that the real reason was to invent evidence linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida.

By Joe Conason

May. 14, 2009

The single most pertinent question that Dick Cheney is never asked -- at least not by the admiring interviewers he has encountered so far -- is whether he, Donald Rumsfeld and George W. Bush used torture to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq. As he tours television studios, radio stations and conservative think tanks, the former vice-president hopes to persuade America that only waterboarding kept us safe for seven years.

Yet evidence is mounting that under Cheney’s direction, "enhanced interrogation" was not used exclusively to prevent imminent acts of terror or collect actionable intelligence -- the aims that he constantly emphasizes -- but to invent evidence that would link al-Qaida with Saddam Hussein and connect the late Iraqi dictator to the 9/11 attacks.

In one report after another, from journalists, former administration officials and Senate investigators, the same theme continues to emerge: Whenever a prisoner believed to possess any knowledge of al-Qaida’s operations or Iraqi intelligence came into American custody, CIA interrogators felt intense pressure from the Bush White House to produce evidence of an Iraq-Qaida relationship (which contradicted everything that U.S. intelligence and other experts knew about the enmity between Saddam’s Baath Party and Osama bin Laden’s jihadists). Indeed, the futile quest for proof of that connection is the common thread running through the gruesome stories of torture from the Guantánamo detainee camp to Egyptian prisons to the CIA's black sites in Thailand and elsewhere.
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Looking back, we now know that coerced confessions -- and in particular the questionable assertions by al-Libi -- were highlighted by administration officials promoting the case for war with Iraq, in the landmark Cincinnati speech by President Bush in October 2002 and in Colin Powell’s crucial presentation to the U.N. Security Council in February 2003, the eve of the war.
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Face it, if Turner-Diary-Conservative-Fantasy-League-Hero Tim McVeigh had waited until the Age of Bush to murder 168 Americans, within 24 hours of being caught he, his entire family, and everyone he'd ever had lunch with would have been whisked off to windowless rooms and blowtorched until one of them "confessed" that, yes, they were in fact all part of an Iraqi sleeper cell operating under the direct control of Uday Hussein.

After which the scripts of serial liar Ahmed Chalabi and his aide's drunken cousin "Curveball" were following would have changed slightly, but other than that, events

would have unfolded exactly as they did:

-- All the usual media suspects would have demanded invasion.

-- Anyone who smelled a rat would have been branded a traitor and shouted down.

-- Cheney's ginned-up war for oil and empire would have been stage-managed to begin at the moment Karl Rove deemed most electorally-convenient.

-- As had everything else leading up to that point, the invasion and occupation would have been planned by rabid NeoCon zealots using an ideological checklist rather that by prudent realists using sound military doctrine.

-- Vital oil assets would have been meticulously protected, while the rest of Iraq would have been left to burn.

-- As events spiraled out of control, the Cheney Torture Administration would again and again use the power of the office of Commander-in-Chief and it's paid liars in the media to keep the fear of the America people cranked up to unbearable levels.

You and I live in a country where the same people who lost their fucking minds when one President lied about a blowjob now smirk and shuck and shrug off the fact that their Dear Leader tortured people into giving him a "We've always been at war with Eastasia" predicate for a war which he subsequently clusterfucked up so irredeemably that you and I will be paying the price for it for the next 20 years.

Every day it becomes ever clearer that we and they cannot coexist, because after 30 years of close observation we can no longer afford the Liberal luxury of pretending the Right is simply stubborn or misguided. Whatever they might have been long ago, 30 winnowing years of relentless propaganda and fear-mongering has eliminated anyone with a conscience from their ranks, leaving behind a very loud and literally single-minded legion of moral automatons, obediently following their leaders' incitements to build fortresses out of fanaticism and cathedrals out of cruelty.

They are the ticking time-bombs strapped to the central pillars of our democracy.

And the one currently ticking the loudest is named Richard Bruce Cheney.