Saturday, March 21, 2009

What's Behind Cheney's New Attacks?

Bobby Ghosh at Time via Yahoo!News

Several observers think Cheney may be starting to feel the heat from Democrats' efforts to investigate the Bush Administration's counterterrorism policies - policies Cheney advocated, and for which his proteges allegedly provided the legal basis. But if he was trying to deflect attention from Bush-era policies, Cheney's aggression will likely have the opposite effect. "If his goal was to tamp down talk of a truth commission, he has probably exacerbated the problem," a veteran Republican told TIME.

Keep talkin'. Dick.

Update:

Juan Cole on what The Dick 'accomplished' in Iraq:

Cheney avoids mentioning all the human suffering he has caused, on a cosmic scale, and focuses on procedural matters like elections (which he confuses with democracy-- given 2000 in this country, you can understand why). Or he lies, as when he says that Iran's influence in Iraq has been blocked. Another lie is that there was that the US was fighting "al-Qaeda" in Iraq as opposed to just Iraqis. He and Bush even claim that they made Iraqi womens' lives better.

The real question is whether anyone will have the gumption to put Cheney on trial for treason and crimes against humanity.

Perhaps The Dick will see that the end is near and do the right thing for the first time in his life: poison himself in der Dickebunker and have his minions burn his corpse in the courtyard. If he'll do that, I can live with being cheated out of revenge justice.

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