CHENEY COALITION IN SENATE FURIOUS THAT GENERALS REFUSE TO GO ALONG WITH MORE WHITE HOUSE LIES AND PROPAGANDA ABOUT TROOP MORALE

The Cheney Coalition, a block of the Senate's worst warmongers, led by Bush Regime dead-enders Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Jon Kyl and Lindsey Graham, is howling for blood (as usual). Today's Moonie Times, Washington's most reliable print mouthpiece for the Bush Regime, claims a closeted gay senator from South Carolina knows more about troop morale than the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, Marine General Peter Pace, or Bush's new Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

One of the deceptive tactics the Regime and their rubber stamp allies, like Mitch "My Bitch" McConnell, is trying to ingrain into the collective consciousness of Americans that if the war is debated, the troops get depressed. And that Osama bin-Laden puts on a party hat does a jig in his cave. No one has pushed this harder or more consistently than Cheney's senate team, Lieberman, McCain, Kyl and Graham. The Moonie Times claims that they "contradicted top Pentagon officials who say Congress would not injure troop morale by passing a nonbinding resolution critical of President Bush's Iraq war plan. Sen. Lindsey Graham said he was outraged that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Peter Pace and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates would say U.S. combat forces 'understand' politics back home and won't be disheartened by a symbolic no-confidence vote against the commander in chief."

Even with the Cheney extremists howling their hatred for the Military, the Senate confirmed General George Casey as the next Army Chief of Staff, a move that the radical right-wingers vehemently opposed. 83 senators voted to confirm and 14 voted against him. Among the 10 Republicans giving Casey the big thumbs down were McCain, who led the opposition, McCain's South Carolina sockpuppet, Lindsey Graham plus the other South Carolina wingnut, Jim DeMint, Georgia's Saxby Chamberpot, and the two Republican walking-dead senators who have virtually no chance of being re-elected because of their supine posture towards the Bush Regime and who are desperate to now oppose something as long as it doesn't get them in big trouble: John Sununu (R-NH) and Gordon Smith (R-OR).