The Real Master of Horror

Spawn of Satan, fabulist without equal, heavy consumer of spare hearts and arguably the Most Evil Man on Earth Right Now, Vice-President Torquemada Torturin' Dick Cheney snarls at reporters while repeating the same tired litany of falsehoods and accusations that he's been slinging for years.

Why does it take the British press to report the really important news? They got the goods on the Downing Street memo, the CIA-sponsored torture gulag in Eastern Europe, the plan to bomb al-Jazeera offices in Qatar, and now they're writing about Col. Lawrence Wilkerson's accusations of war crimes committed by our own mendacious sack of moldering, festering fecal matter Vice-President Cheney and his cohort in crime, Don Rumsfeld. Where is this story in the American press, I wonder? Why isn't it front page news in the New York Times or the Los Angeles Times or the Washington Post? I would think that when a high-ranking military officer, a former aide to a former Secretary of State, who is familiar with the war currently being waged by the Bush cabal accuses the architects of that war of criminal conduct, that his accusations would qualify as news.

But apparently I'm wrong.

"Asked by the BBC's Today if Mr Cheney could be accused of war crimes, (Wilkerson) said: 'It's an interesting question.'

'Certainly it is a domestic crime to advocate terror,' he added.

'And I would suspect, for whatever it's worth, it's an international crime as well.'"

So while the American press is busying (dizzying?) itself with the latest on Brad and Jennifer and Angelina, the BBC is actually doing some -- what do they call it again? -- reporting. What a concept!

"In the BBC interview, Col Wilkerson also developed his views on whether or not pre-war intelligence was deliberately misused by the White House.

He said that he had previously thought only honest mistakes were made.

But recent revelations about doubts in the intelligence community that appear to have been suppressed in the run-up to the war have made him question this view."

And they don't even have a First Amendment to protect their press over there! Seems to me that a few American editors could take a few lessons from our British friends. And let's hope that Col. Wilkerson continues to speak out on this subject.