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grahamhgreen

(15,741 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 09:24 PM Jun 2014

"Dick Cheney Should be Rotting in The Hague, Not Writing Editorials"

...But Cheney’s hypocrisy on Iraq is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to all the reasons why he’s probably the worst person ever to listen to for advice on, well, everything. Remember, Cheney was the guy who almost bankrupted Halliburton by exposing it to asbestos liabilities and then used his position as Vice President of the United States to bail the company out with no-bid contracts during the Iraq War, all while owning millions in Halliburton stock options.

Remember, Cheney was the guy who played a key role in the Bush administration’s illegal torture program. You know - the illegal torture program that was based on tactics invented by Maoist China and turned our country into a pariah state. And remember, Cheney was the guy who was supposed be on the lookout for terrorist attacks in the summer of 2001, but was too busy plotting out ways to attack Iraq to listen to warning after warning about how Al Qaeda was about to kill thousands of Americans.

Cheney let 9/11 happen on his watch.

American history has had its share of villains - J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, and Richard Nixon come to mind as some of the worst - but there is no one in recent history who has disgraced our country quite like Dick Cheney has. He lied his way into an illegal war, profited off that war, and shredded the Constitution. He’s a war criminal and has the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people on his hands.

Dick Cheney should be rotting in a prison cell at The Hague, not writing editorials for the Wall Street Journal.


- See more at: http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2014/06/dick-cheney-should-be-rotting-hague-not-writing-editorials#sthash.n3Fow1og.dpuf










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"Dick Cheney Should be Rotting in The Hague, Not Writing Editorials" (Original Post) grahamhgreen Jun 2014 OP
I'm fine with him writing editorials... jimlup Jun 2014 #1
The WSJ has become a piece of shit rag FoxNewsSucks Jun 2014 #3
911 billhicks76 Jun 2014 #4
The links between Bin Laden, the Bush's, Cheney, and the Saudi's has always been very disturbing. grahamhgreen Jun 2014 #10
WSJ's news articles are still pretty good, but their editorial bent leaves a lot to be desired Hekate Jun 2014 #5
K&R! nt Mnemosyne Jun 2014 #2
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #6
He is an arrogant, petty, delusional sociopath. gvstn Jun 2014 #7
Thom always tells it like it is! Thanks for posting this, grahamgreen. freshwest Jun 2014 #8
Guys like Cheney seem to have no conscience at all. dawg Jun 2014 #9
We can thank that rancid sack of s**t posing as a human for the BP gulf spill too. bearssoapbox Jun 2014 #11
Hague? Close, but no Alex P Notkeaton Jun 2014 #12
lol grahamhgreen Jun 2014 #15
But subjected to waterboarding first! n/t FourScore Jun 2014 #13
preach it LOUDLY this time and DON'T STOP Skittles Jun 2014 #14
and not just him. Solly Mack Jun 2014 #16
Thanks, Nancy. Thanks Barack. FiveGoodMen Jun 2014 #17
There's a rule that once a politician says something it's okay to repeat it.... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2014 #18

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
1. I'm fine with him writing editorials...
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 10:03 PM
Jun 2014

from his cell in the Hague that is! But I would hope that no one would publish them. It is a shame that anyone does.

FoxNewsSucks

(10,375 posts)
3. The WSJ has become a piece of shit rag
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 10:37 PM
Jun 2014

since it was bought by the Fox "news" empire. No surprise they'd let the war criminal say whatever lie he want.

Hekate

(90,189 posts)
5. WSJ's news articles are still pretty good, but their editorial bent leaves a lot to be desired
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 11:30 PM
Jun 2014

My husband got a subscription through the college he retired from (educational discount to business division profs and students) so for this last little while we've had both the WSJ and the LA Times. Strangely enough, it's still quite good, despite its owner. However, we're not renewing our subscription.

LA Times has declined in quality and has gotten a lot thinner over the years, but at least it's still a major regional paper and we get California news.

gvstn

(2,805 posts)
7. He is an arrogant, petty, delusional sociopath.
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 12:06 AM
Jun 2014

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor but I have seen him multiple times on t.v.

bearssoapbox

(1,408 posts)
11. We can thank that rancid sack of s**t posing as a human for the BP gulf spill too.
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 02:43 AM
Jun 2014

"A common spin in the right wing coverage of BP's oil spill is a gleeful suggestion that the gulf blowout is Obama's Katrina.

In truth, culpability for the disaster can more accurately be laid at the Bush Administration's doorstep. For eight years, George Bush's presidency infected the oil industry's oversight agency, the Minerals Management Service, with a septic culture of corruption from which it has yet to recover. Oil patch alumnae in the White House encouraged agency personnel to engineer weakened safeguards that directly contributed to the gulf catastrophe.

The absence of an acoustical regulator -- a remotely triggered dead man's switch that might have closed off BP's gushing pipe at its sea floor wellhead when the manual switch failed (the fire and explosion on the drilling platform may have prevented the dying workers from pushing the button) -- was directly attributable to industry pandering by the Bush team. Acoustic switches are required by law for all offshore rigs off Brazil and in Norway's North Sea operations. BP uses the device voluntarily in Britain's North Sea and elsewhere in the world as do other big players like Holland's Shell and France's Total. In 2000, the Minerals Management Service while weighing a comprehensive rulemaking for drilling safety, deemed the acoustic mechanism "essential" and proposed to mandate the mechanism on all gulf rigs.

Then, between January and March of 2001, incoming Vice President Dick Cheney conducted secret meetings with over 100 oil industry officials allowing them to draft a wish list of industry demands to be implemented by the oil friendly administration. Cheney also used that time to re-staff the Minerals Management Service with oil industry toadies including a cabal of his Wyoming carbon cronies. In 2003, newly reconstituted Minerals Management Service genuflected to the oil cartel by recommending the removal of the proposed requirement for acoustic switches. The Minerals Management Service's 2003 study concluded that "acoustic systems are not recommended because they tend to be very costly."

The acoustic trigger costs about $500,000. Estimated costs of the oil spill to Gulf Coast residents are now upward of $14 billion to gulf state communities. Bush's 2005 energy bill officially dropped the requirement for the acoustic switch off devices explaining that the industry's existing practices are "failsafe."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/sex-lies-and-oil-spills_b_564163.html

How one man can be responsible for so much death and misery, under the guise of 'patriotism', in this country, and not be held accountable is almost beyond belief. Especially when so much of it seemed to be deliberately planned and thought out.

He shouldn't be in the Hague...

He should be underneath it.


Skittles

(152,964 posts)
14. preach it LOUDLY this time and DON'T STOP
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 04:34 AM
Jun 2014

CALL THAT WARMONGERING CHICKENHAWK BASTARD OUT FOR WHAT HE IS

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
18. There's a rule that once a politician says something it's okay to repeat it....
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 10:09 PM
Jun 2014

We all oughta thank the guy for now being able to use Cheney's own words to Cheney.

"Go fuck yourself".

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