Breaking the unwritten law.

There is a kind of unwritten law among civilized people. One is not supposed to wish bad things upon those you despise. You can think them all you like, but you are not to voice them. Because of this we say absurd things like, "I don't like him, but I hope he recovers from his cancer." Or really stupid things to an atheist like me, comments such as, "He'll get his punishment from God." No. he or she won't. If they don't get their retribution now then it's all over. Then there are those who superstitiously believe that if you wish bad things on someone, you will suffer the same of similar fate. Where did that come from? Anyway with this said, I can tell you I wish nothing but agonizing pain for Dick Cheney, the kind of death so many have suffered because of him. I would like to know he was trapped in a car alone on a cold rainy night and that rushing rainwater was falling suffocatingly on his face like the prisoners he had waterboarded. I could wish he had to have several limbs removed before dying, so that he would have some idea of how the amputees feel who lost their arms and legs because of his arrogance. This is a man whose ego has resulted in the deaths of thousands of American men and women, of countless men, women and children in Iraq. He is a liar, a cheat, a fraud and a coward. He is a bitter old man who was just as bitter when he was young. He is an amoral unemotional bully who has no regrets for the soldiers who are dead or maimed or blind or mentally incompetent. He is a man given every opportunity for good who chose instead to vent his endless anger on a country who did him no harm. He is a greedy egotist who, in addition to unleashing war on a country, turned his vendetta into a chance to enrich his corrupt cronies with no-bid contracts and mega-inflated costs. No, this is not a man who deserves to die in bed. Yet, since there is no god, no retribution, no karma, he probably will.