Cheney Talks, Bush Remains Silent

The young man sitting next to me looks very well dressed wearing a dark suit, white silk shirt, and a flower tie. He is excitedly telling his friends, “I have been to three interviews today and they were all very interested and asked many questions. They said they would call me back”. The last sentence does not sound very promising as that is what the employers usually say when they are not seriously considering to hire someone.

Unemployment is still haunting the nation. The headlines like “300 thousand people lost jobs last month” even worry the wealthy. Over twenty five million people have so far lost their jobs due to the economic downturn so far. They continue to leave their homes early in the morning just to look for a job.

Companies file for bankruptcy one by one; people lose their jobs and their houses in America, a place once admired for its wealth by the rest of the world. It became the victim of unsuccessful and visionless politics of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. The most glaring issue on the top of the list that the rest of the world must deal with is the Iraq War. Lately, Bush and Cheney have been trying to come clean of their sins nowadays. While Bush is quietly writing a memoir, Cheney publicly started defending the administration’s war politics.

Both Bush presidents, father and son, had the wrong politics for Iraq. While the former Bush was getting ready to defeat Saddam, former president Jimmy Carter wrote to EU requesting the issue to be resolved by diplomacy. Carter was blamed for betrayal; however, the Gulf War did not resolve any issues either. The latter Bush started the war in Iraq the second time, claiming Saddam was manufacturing nuclear weapons and had connections with Al-Qaeda.

In fact, Cheney was the man who planned the war. Iraq was invaded and Saddam was killed. Soon after, resistance groups started the bombing attacks. This time, Bush–Cheney ordered a military operation to Afghanistan. Both wars have turned out to be huge failures. The U.S. lost its respectability and made enemies with the Islamic world. Iran and the Taliban gained power. As Bush learned from his mistakes, Cheney started losing his credibility.

Cheney was the former president of a defense services company called Halliburton. During the Gulf War, this company signed billions of dollars worth of contracts. Bush and Cheney spent two trillion dollars on the Iraq-Afghanistan war, including the 500 billion that Clinton administration had left available. They won the second term elections with their “terror” politics; however the economy had already started to decline. In addition to all the money spent on the war, mortgage debt and endless loans just made it worse. Major firms filed for bankruptcy and unemployment went up to thirty million in six months.

Cheney spent his last four years at an unknown addresses and rejected the media’s attempts to interview him. But now, he is trying to justify all the mistakes he made in the last eight years. George W. Bush, however, is keeping quiet. Rumor has it that the former president, who recently started writing his memoirs, confessed to one of his close friends that even his wife would not vote for him if he were to run for president again.