Dick Cheney: A Life Pattern of Sabotaging the Security of the United States

[babylonsister]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/dick-cheney-a-life-patter_b_201948.html


Paul Abrams
Posted May 12, 2009 | 04:27 AM (EST)

Dick Cheney: A Life Pattern of Sabotaging the Security of the United States


As in the torture discussions, Dick Cheney has always tried mightily to portray himself as a staunch defender of the United States. For the most part, on that claim, the media has given him a pass. The MSM "discussions" of Cheney's aggressive statements focus on their (often highly questionable) veracity and their political impact.

But Cheney's argument that he was just trying to protect America does not wash. He has a scurrilous life pattern of providing aid-and-comfort to enemies of the United States. Here are 4 examples in reverse chronological order:


#4. Releasing the detainee memos. Following the declassification and publication of the Bush legal memos designed to provide cover for torture, Cheney decried their release as endangering the country and, almost in the same sentence, called for the release of other documents that he said would show the valuable information the torture produced.

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#3. Outing Valerie Plame. We know from the Libby trial that Cheney was the instigator. He may very well have been the person who conveyed Plame's name and position to Libby.

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#2. As CEO of Halliburton, carrying on (illegal) business with Iraq and Iran. Dick Cheney was Defense Secretary to George HW Bush. After the first Gulf War, Cheney defended not going to Baghdad and removing Saddam Hussein saying that US troops would be caught in house-to-house combat and that Saddam was not worth the lives of "not that damned many" Americans.

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#1. As Congressman, voted against banning plastic guns. Plastic guns would be undetectable by metal detectors and thus wreak havoc with our airport and building security system. Even the National Rifle Association could muster only 3 votes in the House of Representatives. If all Members voted, that would be 432-3.

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Dick Cheney portrays himself as passionate about national security. But, his real passion is Dick Cheney, even at the expense of the country. It is long past the time that Cheney should be given a free pass on his claims to be committed to the national security of the United States.

Earlier in his life, during Vietnam, when called upon to show his commitment to national security at its most basic level, risking the ultimate sacrifice in war, Dick Cheney's answer was "hell no, I won't go". He secured 5 deferments, explaining that he had "other priorities", i.e., Dick Cheney.

And, throughout his entire life, he has sabotaged the interests of the United States to achieve that "other priority".

[Psychic Consortium]

1. The diagnosis is quite clear by now: Cheney is a sadistic sociopath.

Our country was being led by people with serious mental illness.

[truth2power]

3. I have been saying this for a long time...

The extraordinary amount of sexual content in these torture methods leads me to believe that it's never been primarily about extracting information from people. Something else is going on.

I think Bush, Cheney, Rummy and others were making what amounts to snuff films, and more. If the truth ever comes out, and I think it will but we'll all probably be dead and gone by that time, it'll be known that our government was infested with pedophiles, sadists, voyeurs, and you name it.

The idea that worthwhile information was to be gained by acts of humiliation, i.e. naked human pyramids, is ludicrous on its face.

I have asked, repeatedly, for someone who is more knowledgeable about torture methods historically to weigh in here, but so far no one has stepped up. I'm open to hearing the other side. For example, the Japanese were said to drive bamboo splinters under fingernails of captives during WWII. Hideous in itself, but hardly sexual/sadistic.

In my view, GW is a classic psychopath. Read the work of Dr. Thomas Hare, the acknowledged expert on psychopathy today, who has built on the work done by Dr. Hervey Cleckly in the 1940's. You will see the indicators in his (Bush's) behavior, his speech patterns and his verbalizations. And what about the pedophile ring that was alleged to exist in the WH of Poppy Bush? Maybe too tinfoil for some, but who knows?

All of the worst of the worst regarding what happened at Abu Ghraib needs to come out, because apparently the American people haven't YET been provoked enough to action regarding the scum who acted IN OUR NAME.


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[Psychic Consortium]

4. There is a great deal of truth in what you are saying. nt

[katty]

5. excellent-yes, thanks for stating this-concur

[babylonsister]

6. I'd never considered that. Thanks for the enlightenment.

Nothing would surprise me.

[bdamomma]

2. Dick has some serious mental health issues, I would say.

this man needs to be incarcerated.

[Bennyboy]

7. This song was written about him (grateful dead content)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgHj4sFGGRc

Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
Dizzy with eternity.
Paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea
Call it home for you and me.
A peaceful place or so it looks from space
A closer look reveals the human race.
Full of hope, full of grace, is the human face.
But afraid, we may our home to waste.

Theres a fear down here we cant forget hasnt got a name just yet
Always awake, always around singing ashes to ashes all fall down.
Now watch as the ball revolves and the nighttime calls
And again the hunt begins and again the bloodwind calls
By and by again, the morning sun will rise
But the darkness never goes from some mens eyes.
It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets
Stalking turf, dividing up meat.
Nightmare spook, piece of heat, you and me, you and me.
Click, flashblade in ghetto night. rudies looking for a fight.
Rat cat alley roll them bones. need that cash to feed that jones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.

Commissars and pin-striped bosses role the dice
Any way they fall guess who gets to pay the price.
Money green or proletarian gray, selling guns instead of food today.
So the kids they dance, they shake their bones
While the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.

Heartless powers try to tell us what to think
If the spirits sleeping, then the flesh is ink.
Historys page, it is thusly carved in stone
The futures here, we are it, we are on our own.
If the game is lost then were all the same
No one left to place or take the blame.
We will leave this place an empty stone
Or this shinning ball of blue we can call our home
So the kids they dance, they shake their bones
While the politicians are throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.

Shipping powders back and forth
Singing black goes south while white comes north
And the whole world full of petty wars
Singing I got mine and you got yours.
And the current fashions set the pace.
Lose your step, fall out of grace.
And the radical he rant and rage, singing someone got to turn the page
And the rich man in his summer home,
Singing just leave well enough alone
But his pants are down, his covers blown
And the politicians are throwing stones
So the kids they dance they shake their bones
Cause its all too clear were on our own

Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
Its dizzying, the possibilities. ashes, ashes all fall down.

[Joanne98]

8. I have to rec just for the title.