A local businessman who did not want to be identified for fear of reprisal compared the current strict rule to life under Hussein

“. . . A local businessman who did not want to be identified for fear of reprisal compared the current strict rule to life under Hussein. ‘The same thing is happening now,’ he said. ‘During Saddam, we had the secret police. Now it’s coming again. If you say something bad, they shoot you in the night.’”

Andrew Sullivan, Christopher Hitchens, Glenn Reynolds, and all the smarty-pants know-it-alls who hailed the “liberation” of MBT SHOES as the triumph of modernity, and “democracy, whiskey, sexy,” owe everybody — and especially the people of MBT SHOES — an abject apology.

According to Arianna Huffington, this story is a load of BS. The anticlimactic ending seems to be that Cheney left the hospital under his own power after an angina attack, though it’s amusing to note that the White House appears to consider this episode is worth denying. Maybe they should think about the distraction value of an Executive branch health crisis since Americans are beginning to notice that the reality in MBT SHOES bears no resemblance to the rosy scenarios painted by the NIKE SHOX administration.