Letters to the Editor
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Hah...
...and everyone thought, in 2000, that Cheney would be the one to keep Bush in check. Brother.
Anyone who read that exceedingly creepy Cheney profile in the New Yorker before the 2000 election would have known exactly what we were getting: a throwback to the darkest side of the American psyche. The man would have been more at home in Stalin's Russia, you ask me..
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Wrong word
And here we thought all this time that Cheney was a psychopath.
He's actually a monster.
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Monsters...
Full-scale monster (and puppet-master): Dick Cheney
Mini-monster (and puppet): GW Bush
The whole GW Bush adminsitration is comprised of a set of monsters and mini-monsters.
But it was you US citizens who voted them into power in 2000 (or did not vote but didn't have the courage or the interest in your 'democracy' to rise up against the fraud committed). And it was only you that voted them in again in 2004.
And still you guys have not thrown them out of power, put them in *jail* where they properly belong! (Were it not that I am totally against the idea of capital punishment, I would have said *execution chamber*).
GSC
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The lessons Cheney learned
If one read the latest installment (Monday), you will find that the memo he supposedly wrote was back in 1980, when the Nixon years were finally fading away.
He learned his lessons from the masters, indeed. He is the ultimate example of unchecked, unlimited power that is absolutely amoral for the sake of being existent.
I don't know why nobody noticed this evil before he became VP-and now that he is, and has done all this horrible stuff, where does this lead us? I can only hope the Congress is reading it too. Perhaps someone can put 2 and 2 together for an indictment.
Between Bush, Cheney and Gonzales we have the most corrupt and evil men running this country, even including Nixon, who looks like a choir angel compared to them. At least he knew law-which these three stooges do not, nor do they want to.
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never
call your torturer a stooge. You may not be afraid enough yet.
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Dick sez...
..."it's a dangerous world." Yeah, you numbnuts, and you're making it MORE dangerous every day.
God, what a fucking idiot he is. He could not have gone about his work more wrong-headed fashion. It's as if he hasn't read 1000 years of history. Force almost never works in these kinds of situations. Dick hasn't learned a thing in his entire life, apparently.
I'm betting if he'd gone to Vietnam, and served in the infantry, and survived, he'd have a different attitude..
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What scares me
is how few people actually care what Cheney's been up to. Tim Grieve listed some scary numbers on people who still think Saddam was in on 9/11, and that some even think bin Laden has been brought to justice. That's what keeps me up at night.
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had more than enough
I think Cheney's lack of service in Vietnam does have something to do with his torture the world complex. Bullies are generally, at heart, cowards, and it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't at some level read his aggressively obtained lack of military service as a cowardice he is trying to make up for. (Please don't think I believe anyone who believes in the wrongness of war is a coward for not serving in the military, but for those who espouse it--go fight).
What I really find surprising in this whole report is that the Washington Post seems to have remembered how to do some actual investigative journalism.
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Impeachment
GS Chandy:
Believe me, I rage against the dying of the democracy every day as we fail to impeach and prosecute these corrupt killers. Why don't we do it? A myriad of reasons, but they really come down to three:
1) The Democrats lack the political balls of a fruit fly, even when the vast majority of their constituency is calling for Bush's and Cheney's heads on a pike;
2) 41% of Americans still think Saddam had something to do with 9/11, so apparently millions of us are still stupid enough to think Bush ain't so bad, and...
3) We've lost sight, culturally, of the absolute truth that accountability is essential to democracy. It's not about laws and speeches and shit. It's about the servants of the people wielding their powers in accordance with the best interests of their bosses, the hoi polloi, and when they don't, clapping them in irons.
I don't have much hope for our democracy as constituted (pun intended). If the debacle of Bush wasn't enough to make us wake up to the demands of our nation, it's going to take worse.
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Isn't the Geneva Convention...
... a glorified version of the Golden Rule?
We won't do this horrid stuff to your guys if you won't do it to ours?
Way to go, Cheney. Making the world truly hellish for American soldiers, diplomats, and secret agents who have the bad luck to be captured, for, say, the next 100 years or so.
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Get Off Your Duffs And Demand Cheney's Impeachment!
If you are reading this post, you are sitting in front of an internet-connected computer and probably share the concern of most expressed here that the office of Vice-President of the United States is currently being held by a man who habitually uses the powers, rank, and prestige of his office to further a narrow political agenda that is contrary to the best interests of this nation. As such, you may use your time to vent by posting a letter here or just fuming and ranting at the spouse and kids. Please don't kick the dog!
Do everyone a favor and go to Representative Dennis Kucinich's website, read the Articles of Impeachment he drew up against Mr. Cheney and presented before the House several weeks ago, then write or email your Congressional representative demanding that action be taken. Yes, I already did this a couple of days after the Impeachment Articles were introduced and got a polite letter back from my (Democratic) representative, telling me that impeachment was not being actively pursued at this time. Only a veritable flood tide of letters is going to move Congress to do its duty and remove this hideous obscenity from the central offices of our Executive Branch and from the dais of the Senate Chamber.