BEHOLD Cheney & His "Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions" - By Robert Scheer

[kpete]

Deceit of Shakespearean Proportions

Posted on Aug 30, 2011



By Robert Scheer

Behold this unctuous knave, a disgrace to his nation as few before him, yet boasting unvarnished virtue. The deceit of Dick Cheney is indeed of Shakespearean proportions, as evidenced in his new memoir. For the former vice president, lying comes so easily that one must assume he takes the pursuit of truth to be nothing more than a reckless indulgence.

Here is a man who, more than anyone else in the Bush administration, trafficked in the campaign of deceit that caused tens of thousands to die, wasted trillions of dollars in resources and indelibly sullied the legacy of this nation through the practice of torture, which Cheney defends to this day. Still this villain claims that, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the horrid methods he endorsed were a necessary response to the threat of Osama bin Laden. How convenient to ignore that it was Barack Obama, a resolutely anti-torture president, who made good on the promise of Cheney and the previous administration to take down the al-Qaida leader.

MORE:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/deceit_of_shakespaerean_proportions_20110830/

[hifiguy]

1. The most evil man who has walked the earth

since Pol Pot. Maybe since Mao or Stalin.

[indepat]

2. Ranks right up there

:thumbsup:

[Stuart G]

3. k & r

[Major Hogwash]

4. You can't say "Cheney" without thinking of Hitler. The big lie theory still applies.

The bigger the lie, the faster it will be believed.
And then tell that same lie over and over and over and over and over again.

[Uncle Joe]

5. I believe the author sums it up well in the final paragraph.

It is not clear that Cheney is a true believer in military mayhem as much as he is an uncontrollable careerist who finds war talk a convenient tool for advancement. He seems to have no real sense of the cost of the Iraq War beyond what it might have done to hurt his own legacy. If his memoir has any enduring value, it is not as another offering of hollow excuses for an unjustifiable war but rather as a study in what the famed historian of European fascism, Hannah Arendt, termed the “banality of evil.”

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[treestar]

6. All about himself and his own power

How did we elect him to high office?

[Rex]

7. We didn't, stupid GOPers did.

Just like they want the idiot Perry in office...so he can do more damage to America. Makes ya wonder what planet they live on!

[young_at_heart]

8. That photo captures his real persona

He looks demented!