It’s obvious that the Bush administration wants to carry out behavior and tactics that are legally questionable. The best way to do this is to hide those actions. These are men who can’t operate in the bright light of exposure. They must conceal their motive, and the longer you do that the more paranoid and likely you are to grow the list of ‘secret’ things, until the American people are the last people to know what their Government is doing. Cheney has turned the US Government into the Kremlin of th Soviet years. A secret organization that makes deisions away from public debate and then uses it’s mouth pieces to destory those who might speak out against it.

The part that amazes me, is how little these so called traditional, conservatives actually value Democracy and freedom (the things they claim to be fighting for all the time). What little faith they have in our ideals. To believe that in order for freedom to win out we have to go into third world countries and wipe out people. How little they believe in the value of honest debate and how they must fear those who seek to let the public know what the governemnt is actually doing.

Cheney is a dangerous man who thinks he alone should decide what the people in this country can know, should know. As this type of thinking festers, he becomes more and more delusional, more likely to hide even seemingly innocent things under ‘national security’ and paranoia. All the while he sacrifices the ideals that this country was founded on.

The Government should answer to the people who run the country. And Cheney just doesn’t believe that. He greed for power and his history of being around power are not reassuring.

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