Cheney Blood ("...that drips from his teeth) Lust

[kpete]

('Blood That Drips From His Teeth'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQh_kmhbPL4&feature=player_embedded)

Cheney Blood Lust
by Lee Siegel

This fanatical emotional certainty is the fevered atmosphere in which the crime of the Iraq war grew and flourished. Those pundits who lecture Obama on the perils of rational compromise have a short memory. Compromise can always be modified or revoked. War begun by the spirit of wrathful revenge is hard to stop, or even alter.

For the Cheneys cannot be reasoned with. In their eyes, as in the eyes of all hardcore right-wingers, the liberals’ original sin was FDR’s expansion of government—i.e. taxes on the wealthy—and they consider this transgression just as heinous as the murder of one’s own child. Indeed, the senseless slaughterhouse of the Iraq war, the way it devours children, seems to be the Cheneys’ way of redressing the liberals’ big-government murder of “hard-earned” dollars. Think of Marx’s vision of money copulating in banks to produce interest, and it becomes easier to understand how the Cheneys might think the life of an American soldier equal to, say, ten thousand dollars earned through military contracts.

In their abominable gluttony and love of the vendetta, the Cheneys resemble the House of Atreus just as much as they do the enraged Furies. As Dick Cheney, that dark wily Tantalus, put it himself Wednesday night, scarily referring to Obama’s rational foreign policy: “No one knows just where that path will lead.” For heaven’s sake, bring on the canny compromisers, Athena’s wise children.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-22/cheneys-blood-lust/2/

Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.

[grasswire]

1. is cheney driven by the protection of wealth?

I don't know. He didn't grow up in wealth.

[busybl]

2. All the more reason to greedily amass much as possible

[grasswire]

3. I think it's more than that.

I think he's insane, with a paranoid, delusional view of the world.