Liz Cheney advocates mass murder on Fox News

Flipping channels I stumbled upon a familiar face, Liz Cheney, daughter of Iraq war architect Dick Cheney, given free reign on Fox News to advocate massive bombing in Iraq and Syria. The irony was lost on Ms. Cheney, and her uncritical questioner, that Cheney proposes killing many Sunnis in Iraq, to prevent those insurgents from regaining power from their Shi'ite oppressors in Baghdad, while proposing killing many Shi'ites in Syria to allow Sunni insurgents to overthrow the Shi'ite government. I'm not sure what is more disturbing: Liz Cheney advocating mass murder to salvage an unattainable victory for her father's murderous and criminal Iraq war, or a major news organization allowing her to appear before millions advocating such sociopathy and validating her madness with the incessant nodding of a bobble head interviewer.

US should acknowledge criminality of Iraq war

Eleven years and three months since we illegally and immorally invaded Iraq, it's time the US confessed the criminality of this atrocity which has created endless death and destruction to that pitiful land. Such action would spur a number of benefits. It would begin to restore America's moral compass fractured when our response to terrorist attacks was launching our own terrorist attacks against a hated, but non-belligerent state. It would begin the process of holding those responsible for our war crimes accountable in court, that of public opinion if not the court of international law. It would bring a measure of justice to the millions killed, injured or displaced by our criminal war, which continues the destruction of Iraq today and into the endless future two and a half years after we officially ended it. 

But the most important reason for admitting our criminality is that it will prevent the US from going back into Iraq militarily to prevent it's partitioning into a Kurdish, Sunni and Shi'ite sector. That is occurring right before our eyes as the Shi'ite puppet Maliki we installed in 2006, never planned to share his new found power and oil wealth with either the Kurds or the Sunnis. His totalitarian tilt is what gives the Sunni rebels legitimacy in the Sunni areas they are gobbling up. The sending of 275 GI's sent to protect our Xanadu of an embassy, the 300 military 'advisors' to coach an uncoachable Iraqi army, and the president's pronouncements we may start bombing again do not bode well for America staying out of the fight. That would be a colossal mistake. Admit our culpability for the unfolding bloody partitioning of Iraq and we can devote our energies to diplomacy with Iraq's neighbors, including Iran. Admit our culpability and the only political leaders and analysts allowed to weigh in on the solution would be those untainted by their lust for criminal war back in 2003. Instead, war criminals like Dick Cheney and war mongers like Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham, get the most airtime to browbeat and goad the president into blasting thousands more to smithereens. That is reprehensible and amounts to their being encouraged to foment more criminal war.  

 

After WWII the war criminals in Japan and Germany were either executed or imprisoned. The unindicted war mongers were told to shut up. We didn't hear folks in either country bragging about their war crimes like their US counterparts do and incredibly, demanding more of the same. Why can't the US follow their example?    

Two Mississippi ironies

Yesterday I watched the wonderful Public Television special 'Freedom Summer' about the 700 mostly white students who went to Mississippi 50 years ago to engage Mississippi's disenfranchised blacks to begin the dangerous process of registering to vote. How dangerous? Yesterday was three days past a half century since the June 21, 1964, murders of two of them, along with local black James Cheney, horrified the nation and reinvigorated the volunteers and Mississippi blacks to proceed with their electoral entitlement quest. While marginally involved in the civil rights movement my freshman year at University of Chicago preceding Freedom Summer, I had no stomach to test fate in that barbaric relic of the post Reconstruction South. I greatly admired one of my classmates who did. 

A postscript to the special mentioned that Mississippi now has the most elected black officeholders in the country. And it was a fitting irony that as I watched that astonishing summer play out, enough Mississippi blacks, virtually all Democrats since most white racists switched to the Republican Party, crossed over to vote in the GOP runoff election for Senator to deny a likely victory to a Tea Partier promising to be even more regressive than the three term incumbent. A bitter irony is that as we celebrate what transpired 50 years ago, the very right to vote by minorities and the marginalized is being threatened anew, not by poll taxes and violence, but by Tea Party sponsored Voter ID laws whose sole purpose is to suppress the black and brown vote. Alas, working to improve the human condition is one venture in which retirement is not an option

Cheney neocons terrified by war truth teller Paul

The American neocons lead by from former Vice President Dick Cheney are flummoxed and furious that the leading GOP presidential contender Rand Paul has put the blame for the civil war in Iraq in the very neocons Cheney still champions. Paul has come out swinging against the Cheney neocons saying the current partitioning in Iraq by the Sunni ...insurgent group ISIS resulted from their catastrophic war of choice in Iraq, not Obama's 2011 withdrawal from that pitiful country. Cheney, whose new heart has given him life but not a conscience or a soul, can only sputter that Rand is an isolationist. Nothing can be further from reality. Paul is simply a truth teller when he says he couldn't send his son to help Iraq retake Mosul when our fabulously funded and trained Iraqi army stripped off their American bought uniforms and fled to Baghdad. Cheney, who used five deferments to avoid the Vietnam War, would willingly add to the 4,489 GI's killed in his made up, criminal war of 2003, to salvage a shred of his bloodstained legacy.

George W. Bush may have been the puppet who announced the war as President in name, but it was Cheney, as the Bush puppet master, and his neocon conspirators, who sent hundreds of thousands to an early death. Bush, to his credit, is out of politics and warmongering. He appears to have realized his mistake and figures he killed enough. Cheney still hasn't come to terms with either.

The American neocons lead by from former Vice President Dick Cheney are flummoxed and furious that the leading GOP presidential contender Rand Paul has put the blame for the civil war in Iraq on the very neocons Cheney still champions. Paul has come out swinging against the Cheney neocons saying the current partitioning in Iraq by the Sunni insurgent group ISIS resulted from their catastrophic war of choice in Iraq, not Obama's 2011 withdrawal from that pitiful country. Cheney, whose new heart has given him life but not a conscience or a soul, can only sputter that Rand is an isolationist. Nothing can be further from reality. Paul is simply a truth teller when he says he couldn't send his son to help Iraq retake Mosul when our fabulously funded and trained Iraqi army stripped off their American bought uniforms and fled to Baghdad. Cheney, who used five deferments to avoid the Vietnam War, would willingly add to the 4,489 GI's killed in his made up, criminal war of 2003, to salvage a shred of his bloodstained legacy.

George W. Bush may have been the puppet who announced the war as President in name, but it was Cheney, as the Bush puppet master, and his neocon conspirators, who sent hundreds of thousands to an early death. Bush, to his credit, is out of politics and warmongering. He appears to have  realized his mistake and figures he killed enough. Cheney still hasn't come to terms with either.