Climate of Fear Part 666

Thom Hartmann, nationally-syndicated Air America radio show host, author of several books, and all around smart guy, puts some historical smackdown on Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz over at Common Dreams.

Read it and see how these three -- especially Rummy and Dickhead -- are the living embodiment of the Military Industrial complex that Dwight Eisenhower warned us against so many years ago.

Way back in the Ford Misadministration they concocted a loose-screw theory of an invisible Soviet submarine that we couldn't pick up on sonar -- but which nevertheless could sneak up practically inside New York harbor before launching its deadly cargo.

Never mind the fact that we had a Detente treaty with the Soviets (which was signed, sealed and delivered by their old boss, Richard Nixon). Never mind the fact that later it was discovered that the Soviet Empire was collapsing from within, and they wouldn't have had the resources to develop this invisible submarine even if one were within the realm of possibility. Never mind the fact that even at the time, there was absolutely no proof that the sub existed. In one of those Orwellian exercises in logic that this gang is so famous for, they held that the very fact that no proof existed was proof that the submarine existed!

Read Thom's analysis -- I highly recommend it for a brief look at the history behind where we are now. Still in a climate of fear, still being "held hostile" by this gang of opportunistic rightwing thugs, still unable to get rid of them once and for all.