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Deconstructing Dick Cheney

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Tue Nov 08, 2005 at 10:55:35 AM EST
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James Carroll does an excellent job of eviscerating Dick Cheney in today's Boston Globe.

At world-shaping moments across a generation, Cheney reacted with an instinctive, This is war! He helped turn the War on Poverty into a war on the poor. He helped keep the Cold War going longer than it had to, and when it ended (because of initiatives taken by the other side), Cheney refused to believe it. To keep the US war machine up and running, he found a new justification just in time. With Gulf War I, Cheney ignited Osama bin Laden's burning purpose. Responding to 9/11, Cheney fulfilled bin Laden's purpose by joining him in the war-of-civilizations. Iraq, therefore (including the prewar deceit for which Scooter Libby takes the fall), is simply the last link in the chain of disaster which is the public career of Richard Cheney.

[Via Atrios, who also points us to this excellent Digby post.]

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    • Deconstructing Dick Cheney | 7 comments (7 topical)
    Re: Deconstructing Dick Cheney (none / 0) (#1)
    by John Mann on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:50 PM EST
    Mr. Cheney is a sociopathic madman. He is responsible for death and destruction in his murderous career on a far grander scale than, say, Saddam Hussein. Osama bin Laden is a hapless rookie compared with Mr. Cheney.

    Re: Deconstructing Dick Cheney (none / 0) (#2)
    by desertswine on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:50 PM EST
    That little capsule of Cheney's hideous career make me retch lunch.

    Re: Deconstructing Dick Cheney (none / 0) (#3)
    by Dadler on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:50 PM EST
    Even Dr. Seuss's grinch found his heart (it grew four sizes, whatever). VP Grinch has a heart that only works with drugs, derfulators, and bacon. No fairy tale endings here.

    Re: Deconstructing Dick Cheney (none / 0) (#4)
    by Dadler on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:50 PM EST
    that should read "defibrillators". lazyfinger syndrome.

    Re: Deconstructing Dick Cheney (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:50 PM EST
    Wow - and I thought there was a "vast right wing conspiracy". After all there was only another "tricky Dick"...

    Re: Deconstructing Dick Cheney (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:51 PM EST
    derfulators - I like it.

    Re: Deconstructing Dick Cheney (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:51 PM EST
    "the last link in the chain of disaster which is the public career of Richard Cheney." There is a missing word. "...chain of disaster which is the PROFITABLE public career of Richard Cheney. The scapegoating of the individual traitors is a natural impulse. But the corporate profiteers who profit from their treason can't be allowed to escape criticism and punishment, if we ever recover. A trillion dollars into the secret government of corporations' slushfund. Zeus help us.

    Deconstructing Dick Cheney | 7 comments (7 topical)