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January 17, 2007 at 07:54:33

Dick Cheney's "Modest Proposal" to Round Up More Troops (Satire)

by Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers Page 3 of 3 page(s)

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Even if you don't think my proposal would fly, I suggest that we consider leaking it. This would get the mainstream press to focus on something not likely to happen, while they ignore what we're actually doing to gin up the movement to bomb Iran, our attacks in Somalia and covert actions in Lebanon, our siccing the CIA and military intelligence agencies on American citizens' bank accounts without getting the supposedly "required" court warrants, and so on.

We can't have journalists and ordinary citizens thinking they can influence what we do on their behalf. That smells too much like democracy. #

Bernard Weiner, Ph.D. in government & international relations, has taught at Western Washington University and San Diego State University, worked as a writer/editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, and currently co-edits The Crisis Papers (www.crisispapers.org). To comment: crisispapers@comcast.net .

First published by The Crisis Papers 1/16/07.
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Copyright 2007 by Bernard Weiner.

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Bernard Weiner, Ph.D. in government & international relations, has taught at universities in California and Washington, worked for two decades as a writer-editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, and currently serves as co-editor of The Crisis Papers (www.crisispapers.org).