Dick Cheney Should be in Jail

[xchrom]

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/dick-cheney-should-be-jail

Just when you thought Republicans couldn't sink any lower, they ask Dick Cheney, the guy who screwed up Iraq, for advice on how to fix Iraq.

Seriously, I'm not kidding.

On Tuesday afternoon, the former Vice President spoke to House Republicans at a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill, where he urged them to take a hard line in the fight against ISIS.

The meeting was basically the GOP's version of a pep rally, and Cheney spent most of the time bashing "isolationists" and talking about how the Bush administration put the U.S. in a position to "win" in Iraq.

Naturally, of course, he said nothing about how everything that's going wrong in the Middle East right now can be tied back to the Bush administration.

[merrily]

1. Absolutely! But not all by himself.

Not only does misery love company, but, in the case of US foreign policy, misery (and the miserable) also deserves company. Lots and lots of company.

[Uncle Joe]

2. I couldn't agree more and as the previous poster stated he should have plenty of company.

Thanks for the thread, xchrom.

[xchrom]

3. ...

[Enthusiast]

4. K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations!

Seriously. Cheney should be in jail.

[cali]

5. If only. But it will never happen. It can't be said too often that he's a war criminal

but because it will never happen, I don't spend much time dwelling on it. NOTHING we do will change that Cheney and bushco will spend the rest of their lives in comfort and lauded by many.

[Eagle_Eye]

6. Take a hard line and make big war

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(Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman all approved Dick's message)

[BrotherIvan]

7. He was a scared patriot

Quit being so sanctimonius.

[Shrike47]

11. I don't agree he was scared. I think he was greedy and saw an opportunity for Haliburton.

Of course, I think all Conservatives are scared, to a degree. That's a big reason they behave the way they do. If they could just control everybody else's behavior, they would feel safer. In his case, however, I think there was a big over layer of greed through which he filtered any information received.

[BrotherIvan]

16. My post was a reference to the President's recent speech

I don't think Cheney was motivated by anything beyond greed and the lust for power. I think he's actually beyond that, and we may need to invent a new word for that kind of ghoulishness.

[hobbit709]

8. Jail is too good for him.

[TBF]

9. No kidding. K&R nt

[A Simple Game]

10. So Mr. Cheney, what do you think the odds of ISIS succeeding in Iraq

would be if Saddam was still in power?

[maindawg]

12. The y are working hard

to re-write history ,insisting that we 'won; Iraq. Its a lie.

[grahamhgreen]

15. Oh, they've done it. Iraq was a success, Obama fucked it up, then they helped him fix it again.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. In their bubble....

Cheney and Rummy won the war in Iraq and Obama and us Libruls undid EVERYTHING and it all fell apart.

........just like they said it would.

[grahamhgreen]

14. As should those that protect him, perhaps.

[niyad]

17. jail would be too good for him.

[99Forever]

18. Some of us having been saying that for years. (Cheney IS a war criminal)

Unfortunately, the only people would could actually have done something to make that happen, made a conscious choice not to. Anyone that is surprised that this monster has been emboldened and is still a force in public, isn't dealing with reality. This is precisely what we said would happen, and yet again, we will be ignored and ridiculed.

We were right then and we are right now.

[Orsino]

19. The kind of nation that could convict him wouldn't have let him commit those crimes. n/t