The Leveller: A modern day regulator

Inflation, deflation, and Cheney

While watching the local news a brief interview with Cheney by some unknown reporter was interjected into the regular news stream. The question posed to him was how he felt about a recent poll that indicates most Americans think that Iraq was the wrong thing to do. Basically he responded with a so what.

I argued privately at the beginning of this war as most anti-statists and true free marketers already know that this Iraq folly will cost us dearly. It will cost us in economic terms people largely ignored until now.

Now we have higher prices everywhere at a level most Americans cannot ignore. It is here where we can make a stronger link between Iraq and our economy than Cheney did between Iraq and Al-quaeda.

And to those Americans feeling the pinch I ask, how do you like the war now? If this consequence could have been explained in lucid detail to Americans most would have surely rallied against it, I hope. Thats a bit optimistic but nevertheless. The harmful effects of this war will not be explained this way to the Americans.

Instead Cheney’s ugly head will continue to triumph in the so called success of the surge and a new hope for Iraq, hurray. As Iraq experiences its own roller coaster as a nation that will ultimately fail as such (we have explored this one). The American nation will travel down its roller coaster of economic malaise trying to believe otherwise.

Cheney and Bush should go down ignominiously in history. One way or another these fools should pay for leading such a failed policy.