It's Only Appropriate Now to Use the F-Word to Describe Dick Cheney

Addressing an audience of veterans in Dayton on the War on Terror, Vice President Cheney said, “This is not an enemy we can reason with or negotiate with.”

The next day, the Cleveland Plain Dealer headline read that “U.S. suspends Najaaf attack” to begin talks with the rebels.

Now I have known all along that the Iraqis are not terrorist, but from the very start the Bush administration has lumped Iraq in with Al Quaeda and have misused the word “terrorist” to include Iraqi nationals and anybody else in Iraq who is shooting back. Cynically, the Bush administration has taken to calling anybody who shoots back a “terrorist” because they know how Americans want so very much for the war on terrorism to succeed.

Now that the U.S. is negotiating with those -- the Bush administration’s word here: “terrorists” -- then I think it is fair to use the F-word to describe Dick Cheney -- flip-flopper.