Having just been through what I 've been through

posted by The Vidiot @ 10:59 AM Permalink

I could cut Cheney some slack and say he's paranoid because of his health. I found that I was SUPER paranoid the more mortal I felt, and believe me, there's feeling "kinda' mortal" and then there's the "Shit! I'm really mortal" that you get when you've been under general anesthesia and are in majormundo pain. So, personally, I can dismiss Cheney's paranoia because his life hangs by a tenous thread due to his ticker. From a Vanity Fair article:

Excerpt: Purdum reports that Cheney travels with a chemical-biological suit at all times. When he gave his friend Robin West and his twin children a ride to the White House a couple of years ago, West commented on the fact that Cheney's motorcade varied its daily path. "And he said, 'Yeah, we take different routes so that "The Jackal" can't get me,''" West tells Purdum. "And then there was this big duffel bag in the middle of the backseat, and I said, 'What’s that? It's not very roomy in here.' And [Cheney] said, 'No, because it's a chemical-biological suit,' and he looked at it and said, 'Robin, there’s only one. You lose.'"

But, then again, maybe he knows something we don't know? Like, NASA is lying to us?

Excerpt: Chunks of a comet currently splitting into pieces in the night sky will not strike the Earth next month, nor will it spawn killer tsunamis and mass extinctions, NASA officials said Thursday.

Really what are they going to tell us? That we're all going to die next week? I don't think so.

On top of that, Cheney is one of the most loathed men on the planet. It's entirely conceivable that anyone who CAN gun for him IS gunning for him, so he's well within his rights to worry about "the Jackal." I mean, in only one example, he's totally pissed off the CIA. It's seems he probably knew what Valerie Plame was working on. HE KNEW!

Excerpt: There is no evidence Vice President Cheney, who gave information to his now indicted chief of staff Scooter Libby, knew what Wilson was involved in. But intelligence experts say the Vice President appears to have had indications that Wilson's responsibilities were sensitive. The Libby indictment says, quote, "on or about June 12, 2003, Libby was advised by the Vice President of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in the Counterproliferation Division." In the Intelligence community, that division means something special.

Now, say you're CIA, you spend all these years setting stuff up to get intel and BAM! in one fell swoop, a fat, bald evil little man with a bad ticker turns your apple cart upside down out of sheer vindictiveness. You're CIA. You're the bully big guy! You're definitely going to go kick some fat, bald ass. No?

So, maybe Dick's right to be a little paranoid.