Bush crew’s deplorable return: How their reemergence sends a deadly message

[DonViejo]

Enough with puff pieces about painting, and platforms for their self-defense. It only damns us to repeat the past

ELIAS ISQUITH

It’s been more than five years since Dick Cheney left the White House and nearly eight years since Donald Rumsfeld was booted from the Pentagon. With the obvious exception of George W. Bush himself, no two men were more responsible for the United States’ disastrous and criminal invasion of Iraq, as well as its embrace of a counter-terrorism model built on the twin barbarities of indefinite detention and systematic torture. In the years that have passed since their departure from public office, both men have released best-selling memoirs, made countless media appearances and no doubt added substantially to their already considerable wealth.

In fact, to get a real sense of just how little these men have had to pay for their sins, consider three recent examples.

One is a recent comment from Dick Cheney, delivered in public — not in private, not on background, not via unknown insiders with intimate knowledge of the former vice president’s thinking, but in public — about whether he still supports waterboarding (or torture, as most people besides Cheney tend to call it): “If I had to do it all over again,” Cheney said, “I would.”

The second is the new documentary, “The Unknown Known,” by Errol Morris and about Donald Rumsfeld. Estimations of the film’s quality vary, but all reviewers are unanimous in at least one regard: Rumsfeld, as he comes off in the film, truly has no regrets. Asked by Morris if invading Iraq for the second time, causing hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths and turning millions more into refugees, was worth it, Rumsfeld shrugs off the question and settles for a fittingly cold and glib answer: “Time will tell.”

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[chervilant]

1. These sociopathic parasites

played the game of Risk on a global scale. They likely threw in a few rounds of Battleship. (I wager they both cheat...)

[TwilightGardener]

2. The Bushies are suddenly everywhere, giving out "advice" and

generally being assholes--Cheney, Junior, Dumsfeld, Condi. Desperate attempt at image rehab and trying to regain credibility, I guess. I've never seen such gall. Every one of them deserves to be running from pitchforks and tar.

[dhill926]

3. I sometimes wonder...

if they are subtly setting the stage for the re-emergence of Jeb….

[TwilightGardener]

5. Probably. Take the sting out of the Bush name with fluff interviews between

Junior the Painter and his daughter on morning TV. Nauseating.

[Dawson Leery]

8. Agreed.

[ellie50]

4. And the Republican party controls the media that serves the low information voter

Until that changes, there will be no change.

[santamargarita]

6. There is another coup coming!

[lunatica]

7. Actually it's just the next phase of the last coup

It slumps and creeps along but it still makes progress.

[Doctor_J]

9. don't forget to thank Pelosi and the president for turning the page

The 2008 voters wanted the Bushies prosecuted.