[Peace-discuss] So that's OK, then

[C. G. Estabrook]

And more than the music died...


E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjKGQqy_tYM
> 
> Fortune has me well in hand, armies 'wait my command
> My gold lies in a foreign land buried deep beneath the sand
> The angels guide my ev'ry tread, my enemies are sick or dead
> But all the victories I've led haven't brought you to my bed
> 
> CHORUS:
> You see, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
> Won'tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?
> 
> Now the purest race I've bred to be to live in my democracy
> And the highest human pedigree awaits the first-born boy baby
> And my face on ev'ry coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved
> My own flag is forever waved by the grateful people I have saved
> 
> CHORUS
> 
> Now, no man is beyond my claim when land is seized in the people's name
> By evil men who rob and maim, if war is hell, I'm not to blame!
> Why, you can't blame me, I'm Heaven's child, I'm the second son of Mary mild
> And I'm twice removed from Oscar Wilde, but he didn't mind, why, he just 
> smiled
> 
> Yes, and the ocean parts when I walk through, and the clouds dissolve 
> and the sky turns blue
> I'm held in very great value by everyone I meet but you
> 'cause I've used my talents as I could, I've done some bad, I've done 
> some good
> I did a whole lot better than they thought I would so, c'mon and treat 
> me like you should!
> 
> 
> C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>>     Cheney Tells Jim Lehrer Tonight:
>>     No Torture, Few Mistakes, Economy Not Our Fault
>>     By Greg Mitchell
>>     Published: January 14, 2009 4:35 PM ET
>>
>> NEW YORK In an exit interview with PBS's Jim Lehrer for the "NewsHour" 
>> airing tonight, Vice President Cheney repeats claims that Saddam 
>> Hussein worked with al-Qaeda. Asked if he made any mistakes in his 
>> eight years as V.P., Cheney only mentions underestimating the 
>> psychological harm Saddam had done to his own people. He said his 
>> administration bore no blame for the economic problem: "I think we had 
>> good economic policies, especially in the early years." And the terror 
>> threat was inherited because of the poor handling by previous presidents.
>>
>> On polls showing he is overwhelmingly unpopular among the American 
>> people: "I don't buy that."
>>
>> And he shrugged off a critical statement today by a key figure, who 
>> used to work under him -- she called the handling of one terror 
>> suspect as clear "torture."
>>
>> http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003930623