What planet is Cheney from? In an interview on NPR this morning, Cheney repeated his fantasy that Saddam and Al Qaeda (and therefore 9/11) were somehow linked. This guy needs an intervention. This story has been debunked by just about every intelligence agency on the planet, not to mention by papers Saddam himself was carrying when captured.

And yet he still repeats it.

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood.

But it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along to fight a war, ... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy.

All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

-- Hermann Goering

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