Uncle Dick, Uncle Rummy and Little Dubya

Many American families have one – the weird uncle no one wants anything to do with. You feel obligated to invite him to Thanksgiving dinner but, secretly, you hope he won’t show up. America has a weird uncle and his name is Dick Cheney.

Uncle Dick, a blame-shifter and practitioner of the dark arts, inhabits an alternate universe – a universe where facts are not facts, events that took place never took place and events that never took place did take place. Confused? We’ll let Uncle Dick’s good friend Donald Rumsfeld explain it.

There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.

Rumsfeld actually said that at a Department of Defense news briefing in February 2002 about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq to supplying weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Back to Uncle Dick.

Uncle Dick was a professional draft dodger during the war in Vietnam. From his perspective as a young man, war was bad. But when he became Chairman and CEO of Halliburton and then Vice-President of the United States under President Little Dubya, Uncle Dick had a change of heart. He decided war was a good thing and should be enjoyed by everyone.

We already had the war in Afghanistan. It was fun, but Uncle Dick was a proponent of what he liked to call a “two-war strategy.” A second war would be good. But where to have it?

Iraq! That would be a great place to have a second war. The first war against Iraq, Operation Desert Storm, had gone well back in 1991. This one would be quick and easy too. We would give Saddam the boot and be greeted as liberators.

So, Uncle Dick concocted a series of lies about Saddam Hussein collecting weapons of mass destruction.

And now , kiddies, you know the rest of the story!

http://www.alan.com/2014/06/29/uncle-dick-uncle-rummy-and-little-dubya/