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Cheneyâs mask of evil diverts attention from his devastating failure as a guardian of US interests on the world stage. Youâd think that this, in its obviousness, would have resonance across the political spectrum. Let us learn from the fact that it doesnât.
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For me the whole argument about torture always overlooks the question whether 9/11 would have even happened if The Bush Administration was not singularly obsessed with invading Iraq to the neglect of every other national security issue.
People like Richard Clark, who worked for the NSA where trying to warn them about Al Qaeda, but where ignored. He eventually got fired because he would not keep quite about it. It turned out he was right.
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The Bush administration was never, ever really focused on national security. Those people were solely and only interested in enriching themselves and abusing powerâthe power of office and the power to kill, maim and torture. Those were meat and drink to the Bushies.
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Now I wonder what THE DICK would say if terrorists kidnapped his daughter and tortured her the same way THE DICK tortured innocent people?
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Dick Cheneyâs Mind Is The âScariest F**king Place In The Universeâ
By proxy making Lynne Cheneyâs womb a portico extension of the Ninth Circle Of Hell (Treachery).
Which explains Liz.
jw1
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Cheney not only has had to borough into his dark cave of denial and create this unjustifiable world of justifiable equal evil, he has caused an entire political party to crawl in with him. As a group, the Republicans/neo-cons never admit fault even when caught with their hands in the cookie jar. They all know under the layers of hate and ugliness that Cheney and Bush were awful and would cry out for prosecutions if they werenât their leaders.
But freedom, liberty and justice are not near as important as never admitting a single mistake in the hive Republican mind. So they get the rotten Dicks of the world to pal around with.
Normal people know that Cheney is a sociopath, the other sociopaths think that he is normal. Therein lies the difference.
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âGeorge W. Bush, thank you for not dying in office,â Stewart concluded.
I never thought of that, but good grief. Heâs right!
Can you imagine Dick in the driverâs seat, instead of just sitting next to George and holding onto the steering wheel? At least George had some control, too.
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Good goddess did that bring a cold shiver up my spine.
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Best Republican ever.
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Worst American EVER
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Has anyone of these Sunday Gasbags ever thought to ask Mr. Cheney just what the fuck they were doing for the nine months before 9-11 ?
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Dick Cheney is the unfulfilled American Pol Pot. Heâs the stuff of Stalin, Lenin, Mao or Hitler, without having been allowed a death toll of millions. And heâs ours, America.
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What a different world this would be if SCOTUS hadnât put this sociopath and his minion dubya in power.
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How can Todd let Cheney get away with that âtorture is what they did to us on 9-11â horse shit? Even if it was torture, is Cheney saying: (1) that since the terrorists committed those atrocities, we can do to our prisoners whatever we please, or (2) that he has no objective standards for what does and does not constitute torture? Either way, thatâs a rather surreal position for the second highest-ranking member of the Executive Branch to take. Actually, itâs not surreal. Itâs criminal.
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âPatriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.â Samuel Johnson
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Probably something like: âWhat they did to my daughter, an AMERICAN CITIZEN, was torture. Nuking them and everyone that lives in a 3000 mile square radius was not torture.â
So Dick Cheney has said that torture was something that was very carefully avoided. And then his definition of torture is 9-11. So is he saying that the administration had to be very careful not to intentionally crash planes into buildings full of civilians? Gee, that makes sense Dick. But then if that is his standard, then his administration didnât really exercise such care. Because I would imagine the whole âshock and aweâ thing we did to be at least equivalent to ramming planes into buildings. I wonder how many innocent people were tortured by being left to make their last phone calls to loved ones just before or during our shock and awe, look how tough we are, bombfest⌠not to mention the several years of killing that followed?
Everyone knows that Obama could prosecute Cheney and the gang for war crimes right?
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