a head of my own

I just read this article on the Washington Post about Cheney's latest rant.

What a moron.

Here's his quote:

The vice president cited the darkest days of the American Revolution, when the war was going badly and ragtag rebels were ready to go home until George Washington rallied them. "They stayed in the fight, and America won the war," he said. "From that day to this, our country has always counted on the bravest among us to answer the call of duty."

There is so much wrong about this sentence. First of all, how dare he compare the American Revolution, when the people leaving on this side of the Atlantic were fed up of having their lives sucked up by the Crown of Britain and decided to fight back, with the war in Iraq, which was started because of a desire for vengeance or a thirst for oil, or both.

Second, is he comparing our men and women currently fighting in Iraq to ragtag rebels? Because that's what he said. Mr. Vice President, our military is supposed and believed to be the best trained and organized in the world. How can you call them ragtag rebels?!

Third, is he trying to compare George W. Bush (who should be impeached and removed from office for sending this country to war based on lies and for attacking a sovereign country that had not attacked us instead of going after the harder to fight but real enemy that was, and alas still is, Osama bin Laden,) to George Washington?!!? So Reagan and Lincoln are not enough anymore, now we're going directly to the guy at the top of the list?

Preposterous. Bush is not even worthy of admiring a portrait of George Washington. Not that he'd recognize one if he saw it...

Finally, when he talks about the "bravest among us to answer the call of duty," does he realize that neither he nor Bush are among them, since they never served?