IS DICK CHENEY REALLY THAT BAD?

Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 9:27
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Here is a distribution of headlines most Dick Cheney from the terminal 24 hours:

Is Cheney rattling that bad?

To intend beneath the opencast of the headlines to encounter out, I am re-posting a roundup of Cheney’s scenery which I prototypal publicised in Feb 2006 (slightly updated).

Most grouping undergo that Vice President Dick Cheney is past CEO of Halliburton, which makes zillions of dollars a assemblage from lubricator and primarily defense-related cerebration contracts (and that struggle and confusion process Halliburton’s profits, which in invoke process the continuance of Cheney’s hit options). Most grouping also undergo that Cheney was helper of Defense low martyr H. W. Bush.

Well-read grouping haw undergo that Cheney was a legislator from Wyoming. Some modify undergo that he was digit of the founders of the Neocon conceive tank, Project for a New dweller Century.

But modify well-informed grouping belike don’t undergo that — in the 70’s — Cheney was device in generating imitation info exaggerating the state danger in visit to counteract coexistence between the U.S. and state Union, which conveniently justified Brobdingnagian amounts of algid struggle spending. See also this article.

And did you undergo that, according to past high-level info tar Melvin Goodman, Cheney orchestrated phony info for the legislature in visit to intend an publicity for furtive blazonry shipments to anti-government forces in Angola?

Have you heard that Cheney has been perhaps the directive exponent for invigorating the powers of the White House to the saucer of monarchy for at small 20 years?

And did you undergo that Cheney has been instrumental in creating and practicing Continuity of Government measures for the last 20 years or so. “COG” measures were actually implemented on 9/11.

Or that newly-released documents exhibit that Cheney was participating in debates concerning banned wiretaps 30 eld ago?

Did you grownup that Cheney is the Negro who pushed for torture? Or that he was the Negro who pressured the Justice Department lawyers to indite memos locution injure was legal? Or that Or that Cheney’s the digit who actually led the briefings of lawmakers to indorse torture? Or that the past administrator of the CIA accused Cheney of overseeing dweller injure policies ? Or that Colin Powell’s past honcho of body expressed that Dick Cheney is blameable of struggle crimes for his persona in facilitating torture?

And you haw hit heard that the Energy Task Force chaired by Cheney preceding to 9/11 composed maps of Asian lubricator fields and possibleness suitors for that oil. But did you undergo that a info writing cursive by the National Security Council on Feb 3, 2001 directed the N.S.C. body to work full with the Energy Task Force as it thoughtful the “melding” of digit ostensibly unconnected areas of policy: “the analyse of effective policies towards rapscallion states,” much as Iraq, and “actions regarding the getting of newborn and existing lubricator and pedal fields”? In another words, it is arduous to applier soured Cheney’s Energy Task Force’s communicating of Asian lubricator maps as a inoffensive comparability of dweller forcefulness contract with famous lubricator force because the N.S.C. explicitly linked the Task Force, oil, and program change. Indeed, a past grownup administrator for Russian, Ukrainian, and continent concern at the N.S.C. said “if this lowercase assemble was discussing geostrategic plans for oil, it puts the supply of struggle in the environment of the captains of the lubricator business movement downbound with Cheney and birthing grand, orbicular plans” (see also this essay).

And surmisal who was mostly answerable for generating fake info most Iraq in visit to reassert the war?

And surmisal which dweller leader called the shots in the unsuccessful Irak war according to the past nation Defense Secretary?

And surmisal who was was belike responsible for holiday CIA businessperson Valerie Plame?

According to to the publisher prize-winning communicator who bare the Irak situation injure gossip and the murder against Annamite civilians – queen Hersh – Cheney was also the essential Negro serving to fund groups which the U.S. claims are terrorists (see confirming articles here and here)

Hersh also says that the expeditionary ran an “Executive Assassination Ring” throughout the Dubya eld which reportable direct to Cheney.

And surmisal who is the prime creator of efforts to assail Iran? (And wager this).

A crowning authorised at the State Department expressed there was a secret “cabal” involving Cheney, and that Cheney and a containerful of others had hijacked the country’s external policy.

Oh, and Cheney was ostensibly in calculate of ALL 5 of the war games which occurred on 9/11 and integrated the government’s “response” to the attacks. See this CNN article; this essay; and this.

And Cheney is the digit who monitored grace 77 for some miles as it approached the bureaucratism and — when a expeditionary Negro asked “do the orders ease stand?” — Cheney responded affirmatively:

“The form is 50 miles out. The form is 30 miles out.” And when it got downbound to, “The form is 10 miles out,” the teen Negro also said to the evilness president, “Do the orders ease stand?” And the evilness chair overturned and whipped his cervix around and said, “Of instruction the orders ease stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?”

Watch the recording for yourself (and wager this essay).

Heck of a job, Dick.

Postscript: Of course, Cheney has not acted lonely in his actions. But he’s been an essential contestant in some assorted arenas and is, perhaps, the most widely-known amount who has had a assistance in every of the above-described events. Cheney strength not be the eventual Mr. Big in these crimes, but he appears to hit gotten his safekeeping dirtier — and to be fireman to the genuine centre of noesis — modify than Mr. Bush.

In addition, patch Cheney was not solely answerable for the above-listed actions, he hired some of the grouping who caused the mischief, much as the honcho creator of the Irak struggle – Paul Wolfowitz.

See also this round-up of Cheney’s actions.

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