Please, Dick Cheney, tell the American people, and the World, how being full of yourself protects them. Tell the American people, and the World, how your know-it-all-ness and bluster saved U.S. lives and the World.
Tell them, Dick Cheney, because when people hear you telling them how great you are but see no evidence of it, they are reminded of others in history who spoke with your certainty, your presumption of superiority, your self elevating rhetoric.
They are reminded of those others and they see, Dick Cheney, that what you are doing and what you have done is not, and was not, intended to protect them. It is, and was, intended to frighten them. It is, and was, intended to manipulate them.
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They see, Dick Cheney, that you would have them think like you think, feel like you feel, and act like you act, even though, you know and they know (now, if not before) that it will only bring them humiliation and shame.
They see your fear. And they see the fear with which you would have them live their lives.
They see your fear. And they see the consequences of acting on fear rather than feeling it.
They see, Dick Cheney, that what you are doing and what you have done is not, and was not, intended to protect them; it is, and was, intended to protect you; to keep you from seeing yourself.
Please, Dick Cheney, tell the American people, and the World, the truth. Free them from the distortions with which you have chosen to live your life, free them from your manipulations, free them from the Guantánamo that is your mind.