Lawrence Wilkerson: The Truth About Richard Bruce Cheney

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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
The Truth About Richard Bruce Cheney ...by Lawrence Wilkerson

Washington Note


Last night I was on Rachel Maddow's show on MSNBC at the top of the hour. But before I came on, through the earpiece I listened to the five minutes that Rachel sketched as a lead-in. Most of it was videotape from the last few days of former Vice President Dick Cheney extolling the virtues of harsh interrogation, torture, and his leadership. I had heard some of it earlier of course but not all of it and not in such a tightly-packed package.

Let's just say that five minutes of the Sith Lord was stunningly inaccurate.

So, when I got home last night, I thought long and hard about what I knew at this point in my investigations with respect to the former VP's office. Here it is.

First, more Americans were killed by terrorists on Cheney's watch than on any other leader's watch in US history. So his constant claim that no Americans were killed in the "seven and a half years" after 9/11 of his vice presidency takes on a new texture when one considers that fact. And it is a fact.

There was absolutely no policy priority attributed to al-Qa'ida by the Cheney-Bush administration in the months before 9/11. Counterterrorism czar Dick Clarke's position was downgraded, al-Qa'ida was put in the background so as to emphasize Iraq, and the policy priorities were lowering taxes, abrogating the ABM Treaty and building ballistic missile defenses. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=1179

When will someone of stature tell Dick Cheney that enough is enough? Go home. Spend your 70 million. Luxuriate in your Eastern Shore mansion. Shoot quail with your friends--and your friends.
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Wilkerson has a sense of humor.

Just off the top of my head, Sami al Haj went on a hunger strike for three Gitmo prisoners that died under suspicious circumstances in 2006.

(Sorry, marmar. Don't mean to rain on your OP.)

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Wilkerson...who used to work for Colin Powell...hits upon a keystone in the unraveling of 8 years of war crimes...the cooking of intel to justify a war for profit and to absolve the boooosh regime of being lax about 9/11.

To listen to the GOOPers, the WTC attacks happened on Clinton's watch, not on boooshie...or that the Clenis caused it. The corporate media has all but written the background music for this script. They gladly passed along the lies that Iraq was tied to Al Queda and all were responsible for 9/11...never bothering to do the legwork to see the intel was cooked. It's not as though there wasn't evidence to prove it, the cables were hellbent on a war for ratings and their own profit.

What's is a shame is that it took a five minute piece produced by Rachel to get Wilkerson to "really start to think"...as though it never dawned on him how corrupt things were? This just shows how painful this process will be on many who want to believe that black in white, up is down and somehow the war for profit in Iraq was justified.

Also, Wilkerson was privvy to the the inside baseball here as a member of Powell's staff. Methinks part of his "coming out" is in response to cheney trying to throw his boss under the bus. Stay tuned, the blame game is just starting...