Dick at the Heart of Darkness, NY Times (Dowd), Oct 26 2005

[Coastie for Truth]

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If W. wants to show people now where the White House has been dishonored in far more astounding and deadly ways, he'll have to haul them around every nook and cranny of his vice president's office, then go across the river for a walk of shame through the Rummy empire at the Pentagon.

The shocking thing about the trellis of revelations showing Dick Cheney, the self-styled Mr. Strong America, as the central figure in dark conspiracies to juice up a case for war and demonize those who tried to tell the public the truth is how unshocking it all is.

It's exactly what we thought was going on, but we never thought we'd actually hear the lurid details: Cheney and Rummy, the two old compadres from the Nixon and Ford days, in a cabal running the country and the world into the ground, driven by their poisonous obsession with Iraq, while Junior is out of the loop, playing in the gym or on his mountain bike.

Mr. Cheney has been so well protected by his Praetorian guard all these years that it's been hard for the public to see his dastardly deeds and petty schemes. But now, because of Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation and candid talk from Brent Scowcroft and Lawrence Wilkerson, he's been flushed out as the heart of darkness: all sulfurous strands lead back to the man W. aptly nicknamed Vice.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Thanks for this!

I refuse to pay for NY Times Select, but I was intrigued by the title of the op-ed this morning. So I'm glad you posted what you could.

[soleft]

2. If Cheney isn't indicted, I expect he'll step down due to health

reason within a few months

[electropop]

5. If he isn't indicted, the "Company" may find "health problems" for him.

You don't screw the "Company" and expect to get away with it.

[billbuckhead]

3. Dick Cheney in happier times

[MrBenchley]

6. Look at the tyrant's terror as he confronts armed Americans (snicker)

Hilariously, even though Cheney is one of the most gun-crazy fuckwits in public life (while in the House, he actually voted FOR plastic guns and FOR cop-killer bullets), while he was fondling his long hard musket in public last year, he made sure all his fellow NRA members were put through metal detectors...but then he knows first-hand how crazy and irresponsible gun loonies are.

[electropop]

4. Joseph Conrad never had such dark musings...

in his most despondent moments. The whole world has suffered at the hands of this evil cabal.

[Gasping4Truth]

7. Free link

http://cyphering.blogspot.com/

[Kota]

8. Thanks for the link.