Cheney should follow Bush's lead....and simpy disappear
Together, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are the two men most responsible for our criminal Iraq war. Even to this day, it's causing endless bloodshed and misery in Iraq, over a year since we mercifully ended our conquest of that pitiful land, and returned a shattered Iraq back to its people. I believe President Bush has an inkling about his monstrous criminality as he dropped off the public map on Day One of his ex-presidency and has resolutely stuck to that policy.
Sadly, Vice President Cheney has not followed Bush's decent example. Every time a big national security story breaks, the media trot out a remorseless, petulant Cheney to once again spew poison into our national discourse. This Sunday we were subjected to his rant about NSA spy program whistleblower Ed Snowden. Cheney called him a traitor, a likely spy, and in the corker, offered this bit of hilarious irony:
"I think he has committed crimes in effect by violating agreements given the position he had," he continued. "I think it's one of the worst occasions in my memory of somebody with access to classified information doing enormous damage to the national security interests of the United States."
In Psychological terms, Cheney is engaging in "transference", the projecting of one's own failings and flaws onto another. No one in my 60 years of following the American Story has violated agreements of his position more than Dick Cheney. His is truly one of the worst occasions of somebody with access to classified information doing enormous damage to US national security interests. In Cheney's case, he took classified information about Iraq and then twisted it into grotesque lies in order to conquer it in a murderous war of choice. He is not only a traitor, he is arguably a war criminal.
Since, the current President has ruled out his prosecution, in the interests of "looking forward, rather than backward", in violation of the Nuremburg war crime trial edicts, the least our media should do is deny him the opportunity spread his venom on the national stage.
Sadly, Vice President Cheney has not followed Bush's decent example. Every time a big national security story breaks, the media trot out a remorseless, petulant Cheney to once again spew poison into our national discourse. This Sunday we were subjected to his rant about NSA spy program whistleblower Ed Snowden. Cheney called him a traitor, a likely spy, and in the corker, offered this bit of hilarious irony:
"I think he has committed crimes in effect by violating agreements given the position he had," he continued. "I think it's one of the worst occasions in my memory of somebody with access to classified information doing enormous damage to the national security interests of the United States."
In Psychological terms, Cheney is engaging in "transference", the projecting of one's own failings and flaws onto another. No one in my 60 years of following the American Story has violated agreements of his position more than Dick Cheney. His is truly one of the worst occasions of somebody with access to classified information doing enormous damage to US national security interests. In Cheney's case, he took classified information about Iraq and then twisted it into grotesque lies in order to conquer it in a murderous war of choice. He is not only a traitor, he is arguably a war criminal.
Since, the current President has ruled out his prosecution, in the interests of "looking forward, rather than backward", in violation of the Nuremburg war crime trial edicts, the least our media should do is deny him the opportunity spread his venom on the national stage.
posted by Walt Zlotow at 3:51 PM
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