If You Mean 'Flame' As In People On Fire Who've Just Been Bombed, Then Yes Dick Cheney Deserves This Award

By Darryl Mason

Former vice-president and war industry whore Dick Cheney recently won the (good god) Keeper Of The Flame Award from the Centre For Security Policy, another NeoCon outfit who love destruction & slaughter, and profiting from war and human misery, and also enjoys giving NeoCon awards to NeoCons.

Blue Gal notes some of the other previous winners of this hilarious award :

Joe Lieberman
Duncan Hunter
James Inhofe
Paul Wolfowitz
Newt Gingrich
Ronald Reagan
Jon Kyl
Caspar Weinberger

And wonders why the Washington Post can't tell the blog-honest truth, just once, like this :



Here's then US deputy secretary of defense, Paul Wolfowitz, in October, 2003, upon receiving his own Keeper Of The Flame award :

"There are American heroes out there now performing magnificently on the front lines in Afghanistan and Iraq. And instead of fine food like we’re eating here tonight, they eat their rations in the blazing heat, and they make their camps in the blinding dust and the driving wind. They take the battle to the enemy and they brave his hatred and brutality to make this country safe.

"Among them are heroes who went to war and did not come back who gave their last full measure of devotion for their country and their cause—a just and noble cause. They live on in our hearts as we remember their courage and their deeds. In their memory, we must rededicate ourselves and redouble our efforts to finish the job that they have so nobly begun."

Since Wolfowitz delivered that speech, more than 4500 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq, more than 100,000 have been physically wounded and hundreds of thousands of American soldiers have been left psychologically shattered by the War On Iraq.

The best way to honour dead soldiers is to send more soldiers to die, who then must be honoured by sending more soldiers to die....This is the psychopathy of NeoConism at its most gruesome, war industry core.