WHY CHENEY SHOULD GO TO JAIL
That is coming up, after first we share light, breezes, color and relief for those of you in places like Minnesota, Indiana, New York, and wherever else winter continues to assault you.
SPRING IN BLOOM
A SALAD IN SPRING TRAINING
DEDICATED TO DICK CHENEY
A LOT OF BULL
AND BULL DEBRIS
We made our periodic visit to a grazing land to collect cow chips that we use in our compost. I was thinking a lot about Dick Cheney.
I was fuming a bit about the arrogance of man I consider a criminal, on several counts. Last night I watched the RJ Cutler documentary The World According to Dick Cheney airing on Showtime. The reviews are mixed though this LA Times piece by Mary McNamara hits on one point with precision. Her father warned her to beware of a man with no regrets. Cheney says he has no regrets.
Cutler zeros in on and documents two of the reasons Cheney should be tried. One is the absolute lies, totally fabricated falsehoods he told Dick Armey to swing him around to approve an authorization to invade Iraq. Remember those WMD's, suitcase bombs, etc, etc. Cheney is a liar. The other instance was when he told President Bush to ignore Justice Department rulings that domestic spying Cheney had ordered was illegal. Cheney had intentionally kept W, who was already way over his head, in the dark about the building firestorm in the Justice Department and FBI about the illegality and irregularity of what he had done. Even the FBI director was threatening to quit if Bush did not change the guidelines.
I have said Bush was an idiot and I think I can prove it. Cheney knew he had an intellectual light weight for a boss and he abused him, abused power and abused the American public. Cutler's documentary is not at all a hatchet job, in fact it even lends a tacit credibility to a man who went from being a drunk to being drunk with power. Yet he does expose how even W, slow as he was, learned of his machinations and finally told aids not to take Cheney's calls and not to schedule meetings with him-this while they were both presiding over the needless deaths of American kids in a war that Cheney wanted, got and that his buddies at Halliburton and subsidiaries profited from.
This is only the beginning. As historians continue to examine and study the disastrous years of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, his puppet master, Cheney's already low ratings will decline and his villainy will be further exposed.
I hope the criminal lives long enough to be indicted.
THE FACES OF 13
See you down the trail.
But isn't it the 'American way' to forgive criminals and even eventually put them on a pedestal? Reagan, Grant, Ollie North, etc.
ReplyDeleteAnd occasionally even to turn heroes into liars/villains?: John Kerry. Even Lincoln.
And what about that enigma, R M Nixon?, a Shakespearean character if ever one lived.
Hey, I've got an idea. Let's do another Mt. Rushmore thing, only this time put it in Death Valley. Start with "W" and Cheney. Then Reagan, then by popular vote add one or two more of the same "ilk" (a favorite hyper-conservative descriptor).
Dick Cheney is a very very sick man. Maybe he will have a change of heart now that he has a new heart. Just how long will this S O B live?
ReplyDeleteFirst, thanks for the spring photos. I actually recognize most of those plants, which is the only proof I have that spring actually still exists. Parking restrictions due to snow in the streets are still in force here in Minneapolis.
ReplyDeleteSecond, I couldn't agree more about Cheney. There were many, many evil trolls in that administration, and Dick was principal among them. I will have to catch this piece for myself.
I liked him better when he didn't have a heart beat.
ReplyDeleteBut I thought you Californios were supposed to be mellow and cool. You seem maddened and hot.
You mentioned Cheney's drinking, many years ago when he was the congressman from Wyoming a great friend of mine was named Wyoming's Young Man of the Year I went to the celebration. Cheney was at the banquet in Cheyenne, he was so damned drunk he could barely talk,he left and drove home to Casper. An arrogant and nasty "Dick" drunk or sober.
ReplyDeleteWatching a video of him is like watching the devil, on camera.He radiates "Evil" vibes. I don't care what he says. He is an "evil" S.O.B.
ReplyDeleteHe was one of the most corrupt men to ever take up residence in the White House. Great blog!!
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