Dick Cheney: Full of shit in the seventies about the war in Vietnam, full of shit in the eighties with his wildly overestimated categorization of Soviet power and their ability to project that power worldwide, full of shit in the nineties with his Project for a New American Century, and finally, full of shit in the 21st century with his over-stated clarion calls about the abilities, will, and WMDs of a tinpot middle-east dictator in an oil-rich country.

When, oh when is someone going to indict this man for having a clear conflict of interest in the Iraq war, and the larger war on terrorism? When Cheney first took office, Halliburton stock was hovering somewhere around nine dollars a share for taking a beating in the Dresser asbestos lawsuits. Halliburton's stock is currently in the neighborhood of sixty dollars a share. Dick Cheney has four hundred thousand stock options, 400,000, just so you can see it in numerical terms. If he exercises his options at this point in time, buying for nine dollars a share, and selling for sixty dollars a share. He he will then spend 3.6 million dollars to buy shares which he can then sell for 24 million dollars, a profit of over 20 million dollars, and all because of Halliburton's no-bid war contracts pumping up their stock price over the last three years.

After reading this article, I have come to the following conclusion, Dick Cheney isn't Darth Vader, he's Senator Palpatine, and George W. Bush is still Luke Skywalker, which means the real Darth Vader was George H.W. Bush. Cheney has powerful aspirations, and let's just hope he never gets the chance to reveal the Emperor, or we as Americans are going to be in truly deep shit.

Great article. I would add that Cheney learned, from Watergate, that control of the media message was paramount.

What the rest of us learned from Watergate was the ramifications of the failures of leadership. What Cheney and Rumsfeld learned was that if they controlled the message they could get away with anything.