CHENEY AND AIDA... PERHAPS A POST REGIME CAREER IF HE DOESN'T EVER HAVE TO PAY FOR HIS CRIMES?

Earlier today Ken did a post about Aida and mentioned that Verdi created an entire fictional Egypt for his opera. But sometimes art imitates life or life imitates art. In either case, Robert over at Left of Centrist has created a four and a half minute long animated masterpiece that helps tie Bush's Cheney to Verdi's Ramfis. Ken: "...the King and the high priest Ramfis (the two authority figures both cast with basses) preside over the sendoff of the army against the invading Ethiopians (if you wanted to see Ramfis as a sort of Cheney-like warmonger, you might look at the Egyptian intel on which the decision to go to war is based, the Messenger's breathless account of the invasion of 'the sacred soil of Egypt' by the 'Ethiopian barbarians,' laying waste to the fields and 'already marching on Thebes,' and wonder whether perhaps his testimony was coached)..."