Dear Dick Cheney,

As a concerned citizen, I want you to know that I 
appreciate your long involvement in politics and 
dedication
to America. I want to preface this letter saying: who 
cares that you were arrested twice for drunk driving.

1) Once in November of 1962 
2) Then again in 1963

You were excercising your freedoms as an American 
citizen. And even if you were endangering the lives
of others in the process, you were doing your duty to 
America. I know that you were a strong support of the
Star Wars Missile Defense Sytem and that even Ronald 
Reagan loved you. I know you voted against the
Clean Water Act and were a strong supporter of keeping 
corporations quiet about the toxins they were flooding
into communities. That was very American of you.

Remember when Cliton became president and you decided 
to leave politics for industry? We wept when you
left Washington to become CEO of Halliburton in 1995, 
and we won't talk about your "tweaking" of Halliburton
accounting practices in 1998 when you "imrpoved" 
revenues by $234 million... because that can be our 
little secret.
You were showing American igenuity! Then remember when 
you quit Halliburton to become vice president and your 
company offered you a $20 million retirement package? 
Maybe it was ridiculous of us to say that Halliburton 
was 
buying access to the White House and it was so selfless 
of you to only accept $13.6 million. 


Then, remember when Al Queda attacked the Pentagon and 
the World Trade Center on September 11th and you had
that heart attack? I mean, even though a lot of people 
don't talk about it, you sure were doing your service
to your country by lying flat on a hospital bed as they 
cut open your heart and American ran around frantic and
frightened. Because, hey, when a physically unstable 
vice president who had more heart attacks than the 
president
had left the country before entering the office, it was 
important that you took those moments for yourself. 
Sure
you can tell them that you were trying to hide out to 
make sure you were safe in case another terrorist
attack had happened because the heart attack thing is 
embarassing, and Cheney, I see where you're coming 
from.

Once you were vertical, however, you had every right to 
be angry and show America how much you loved it by
destroying any credibility or integrity we had left 
with the world. Maybe it was logical to invate Iraq 
with
a complete lack of evidence that Hussein had anything 
to do with September 11th or Al Queda. You were doing 
your
duty to the country. And Cheney? It was just a 
coincidence that Halliburton for up to $7 billion for 
Iraqi oil
field reconstruction, right? Other companies surely had 
no right to participate in the usual government bidding
process, because, that wasn't American.

Signed,

A Concerned Citizen