Cheney, Libby, Neocons: Bullies Without Balls

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Cheney, Libby, Neocons: Bullies Without Balls

by Brent Budowsky | Feb 20 2007 - 6:05pm

The child is the father of the man.

The brilliant maneuvers and influence peddling of certain elites to avoid military service in the Vietnam war left two ugly legacies that do grave damage to American troops today.

First, they learned young that wars are meant to be fought by certain classes, which they are above. They grew up with the entitlement spirit of the elite. The privileged classes send the others to fight the wars.

George Herbert Walker Bush a star athlete in college. George W. Bush was the cheerleader.

In politics, that translates in adulthood into a refusal to admit they were wrong and a refusal to take responsibility for their mistakes. The war hero protects the band of brothers. The wimp blames the subordinates.

Look at Cheney. Instead of taking responsibility like a man, he works desperately and feverishly to pin the blame on others. The war hero takes responsibility of command. The wimp blames those under his command.

Look at Libby, allowing his aide Cathie Martin, to be blamed at a White House meeting for what Scooter did. What kind of vainglorious wimp allows his staff to take the blame for his own mistakes?

This is a recurring pattern in this sordid affair of the Libby case and the Iraq war.

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