GOTTCHA DICK...The Chapter That Went Missing From Dick Cheney's Book

The Chapter That Went Missing From Dick Cheney's Book
John Nichols
August 27, 2011

Dick Cheney’s hyper-hyped autobiography is short on revelations (it turns out that the “secret undisclosed location” was his house) but long, very long, on excuse making when it comes to the wars of whim into which he steered the United States. The former vice president is still sure there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, dismissing any talk of apologizing for his own weapons of mass deception pontificating in the run-up to the Iraq War. In fact, Cheney remains enthusiastic about every aspect of the wars of whim he steered the country into as Ronald Reagan’s chief congressional ally during the Iran-Contra scandal, George H.W. Bush’s hapless secretary of defense and George W. Bush’s neoconman prince regent, But where’s the chapter on Cheney’s heroic service in Vietnam? Of, that’s right, he had “other priorities” than responding to draft notices.

Try as readers may to find the tale of Cheney’s Vietnam service or, to be more precise, his meticulous avoidance of service, they just won’t find that In My Times offers much in the way of revelation about Cheney’s times.

Cheney has always positioned himself as an arch militarist. But when he had a chance to get on the frontlines, he instead deferments. A lot of them

Richard Bruce Cheney was “of age” for service durng the Vietnam conflict. Faced with the chance to engage on the battlefield or the home front, however, he dodged out—not for moral reasons but selfish ones. Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Maraniss, who interviewed Cheney for his book They Marched Into Sunlight, says the vice president just couldn’t be bothered. “I think he’s emblematic of a certain type. He wasn’t against the war, just didn’t want anything to do with it,” explains Maraniss. “He wanted to get on with his life and not let the world get in the way.”

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/163010/chapter-went-missing-dick-cheneys-book

It used to be that a lack of heartbeat meant you were dead.

"Little people" do what they are told; "big people" laugh.

our gutless elected officials chose to look the other way

They showed how to dodge responsibility to America and come out the other end smirking. Republicons can think of nothing more 'glorious' than dodging responsibilities to America, shirking taxes, and sneaking off alone with their ill-gotten BOODLE of Republicon Socialist SWAG.

I mean, Republicons also worship the drug-addled draft dodger Rush Limbaugh, who shirked his responsibility to serve America by claiming his steenking Republicon Ass Pimple gave him 'special entitlement' to a military deferment.

No wonder Americans do not respect republicons.

Cheney's multi-million dollar revolving door.

Money. It's what counts.

Does anyone know?

By the way, weren't there supposed to be Air Force jets left to protect the White House, even back then?

Dick lives. :puke:

invites him to the WH and thanks him for his service.

Heartless chickenhawk war criminal

you wouldn't have taken military action to destroy them because if you had, you would have ignited them.

:boring:
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