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Remember, Cheney was the guy who played a key role in the Bush administrations illegal torture program. You know - the illegal torture program that was based on tactics invented by Maoist China and turned our country into a pariah state. And remember, Cheney was the guy who was supposed be on the lookout for terrorist attacks in the summer of 2001, but was too busy plotting out ways to attack Iraq to listen to warning after warning about how Al Qaeda was about to kill thousands of Americans.
Cheney let 9/11 happen on his watch.
American history has had its share of villains - J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, and Richard Nixon come to mind as some of the worst - but there is no one in recent history who has disgraced our country quite like Dick Cheney has. He lied his way into an illegal war, profited off that war, and shredded the Constitution. Hes a war criminal and has the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people on his hands.
Dick Cheney should be rotting in a prison cell at The Hague, not writing editorials for the Wall Street Journal.
- See more at: http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2014/06/dick-cheney-should-be-rotting-hague-not-writing-editorials#sthash.n3Fow1og.dpuf

jimlup
(8,008 posts)from his cell in the Hague that is! But I would hope that no one would publish them. It is a shame that anyone does.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,924 posts)since it was bought by the Fox "news" empire. No surprise they'd let the war criminal say whatever lie he want.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)"Cheney let 911 happen on his watch". I think he did more than that...he made sure it happened.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)Hekate
(95,970 posts)My husband got a subscription through the college he retired from (educational discount to business division profs and students) so for this last little while we've had both the WSJ and the LA Times. Strangely enough, it's still quite good, despite its owner. However, we're not renewing our subscription.
LA Times has declined in quality and has gotten a lot thinner over the years, but at least it's still a major regional paper and we get California news.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Uncle Joe
(60,563 posts)Thanks for the thread, grahamhgreen.
gvstn
(2,805 posts)Disclaimer: I am not a doctor but I have seen him multiple times on t.v.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)dawg
(10,777 posts)I agree. He should be locked up in the Hague.
bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)"A common spin in the right wing coverage of BP's oil spill is a gleeful suggestion that the gulf blowout is Obama's Katrina.
In truth, culpability for the disaster can more accurately be laid at the Bush Administration's doorstep. For eight years, George Bush's presidency infected the oil industry's oversight agency, the Minerals Management Service, with a septic culture of corruption from which it has yet to recover. Oil patch alumnae in the White House encouraged agency personnel to engineer weakened safeguards that directly contributed to the gulf catastrophe.
The absence of an acoustical regulator -- a remotely triggered dead man's switch that might have closed off BP's gushing pipe at its sea floor wellhead when the manual switch failed (the fire and explosion on the drilling platform may have prevented the dying workers from pushing the button) -- was directly attributable to industry pandering by the Bush team. Acoustic switches are required by law for all offshore rigs off Brazil and in Norway's North Sea operations. BP uses the device voluntarily in Britain's North Sea and elsewhere in the world as do other big players like Holland's Shell and France's Total. In 2000, the Minerals Management Service while weighing a comprehensive rulemaking for drilling safety, deemed the acoustic mechanism "essential" and proposed to mandate the mechanism on all gulf rigs.
Then, between January and March of 2001, incoming Vice President Dick Cheney conducted secret meetings with over 100 oil industry officials allowing them to draft a wish list of industry demands to be implemented by the oil friendly administration. Cheney also used that time to re-staff the Minerals Management Service with oil industry toadies including a cabal of his Wyoming carbon cronies. In 2003, newly reconstituted Minerals Management Service genuflected to the oil cartel by recommending the removal of the proposed requirement for acoustic switches. The Minerals Management Service's 2003 study concluded that "acoustic systems are not recommended because they tend to be very costly."
The acoustic trigger costs about $500,000. Estimated costs of the oil spill to Gulf Coast residents are now upward of $14 billion to gulf state communities. Bush's 2005 energy bill officially dropped the requirement for the acoustic switch off devices explaining that the industry's existing practices are "failsafe."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/sex-lies-and-oil-spills_b_564163.html
How one man can be responsible for so much death and misery, under the guise of 'patriotism', in this country, and not be held accountable is almost beyond belief. Especially when so much of it seemed to be deliberately planned and thought out.
He shouldn't be in the Hague...
He should be underneath it.
Alex P Notkeaton
(309 posts)
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)FourScore
(9,704 posts)Skittles
(161,488 posts)CALL THAT WARMONGERING CHICKENHAWK BASTARD OUT FOR WHAT HE IS
Solly Mack
(93,709 posts)K&R
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)We all oughta thank the guy for now being able to use Cheney's own words to Cheney.
"Go fuck yourself".