Intro: "Former Vice President Dick Cheney's memoir is filled with accounts about the great and wonderful people who agree with him - and the evil buffoons who don't. But the book offers some unintentional insights into how the American Republic got into today's mess, writes Robert Parry."
George Bush speaks to the media as Dick Cheney listens, at the White House in January 2007. (photo: Roger L. Wollenberg/Getty Images)
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"In normal circumstances, people who turn their backs on reality are soon set straight by the mockery and criticism of those around them, which makes them aware they have lost credibility. In the Third Reich there were no such correctives, especially for those who belonged to the upper stratum. On the contrary, every self-deception was multiplied as in a hall of distorting mirrors, becoming a repeatedly confirmed picture of a fantastical dream world, which no longer bore any relationship to the grim outside world. In those mirrors I could see nothing but my own face reproduced many times over."
DOJ? Supremes? Military Complex? Step up to the plate or America goes down - we're in free fall - YES from this "W"/"Cheney" regime.
If we fall (as it looks like we will with our dysfunctional Congress) there will be a revolt and I pray that (like Lybia, etc.) those young enough to "revolt" - take "W"/Cheney down too (and in public - just like they showed how they did with the monster Saddam)
My message to Boehner, Cantor, the Turtle from KY - start doing YOUR job or you will be the first (after "W"/Cheney) to hit the dust.
You should be aiming to help America mend from the damage done by the Bush's deregulations so the banks could (and still do) wreck our economy!
President Obama is not responsible for "fixing" the banks' dirty work when there are NO LAWS left to put those creeps in jail.
VOTE DEM in 2012 - register now and make don't forget you can turn in your mail-in ballots early
Giraffee, believe me when I say this; I CLEARLY feel your pain because, as I have said in earlier posts, these TREASONISTS, ALL of them , belong in that hellish prison built for TERRORISTS! Hmmmm....seems to me that THEY QUALIFY. The GOP favored (and federally appointed) judges will barely look at, much less take these cases.
In the face of economic trouble, Republicans in Congress keep asking Americans for "shared sacrifice," all the while continuing to give billions of dollars in subsidies to Big Oil companies. »
We're lining Big Oil's pockets, while Big Oil pays for Congress to vote in their best interest instead of ours.
While Congress tells us we need to sacrifice health care, social security and other vital services in 2011 alone Big Oil companies received at least $4 billion in tax breaks, all while reporting record profits.
Despite the big five oil companies making record profits this year, Congress keeps saying Big Oil is paying its "fair share."
One of the top CIA guys, not Tenet,
said that Cheney came over to the CIA at least 11 times. He was pushing, pushing, pushing them to say what he wanted to hear....and use. He didn't get it, which is why he was constantly bad mouthing CIA: That what happened was because they were incompetent.
When the official was asked, how often other Vice Presidents had come over to the CIA, .........THE ANSWER WAS IT HAD NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE/
Peter in CT
YOU BETCHA! See Proverbs 6:16-19 & Revelation 21:8; Perry, Bachmann, Romney, Cain, the teakluxklan, and the other phonies NEVER STUDY this part of the Holy Bible.
Do you really know who Hess was and what happened to him?
Do you really know what a so called "Nazi" was?
I do not blame you for not knowing however in the age of Internet and so on you are able to check out the "OTHER" side. NAZIS were simply people to belong to a party, same as Republicans or Democrats. This is not just me talking, one of the best American Generals, if not THE best, General Patton said exactly this after the end of the second world war and was assassinated by his own country because of it. this is NOT a conspires theory, it's a fact. And should you be brave enough to to check out facts you just might join the American Revolution to take back your once great country.
There is a reason sane U.S. citizens would give you a thumbs down on your comments. Oh, and let's not forget that Eisenhower was also involved in this little skirmish, along with McArthur.
You do have a point about political parties, though. However, Patton was not a part of what was great about America.
just fine...as it is.
Agreed genierae! Many people either don't know or were not born when the RETHUGS stacked the federal circuit courts & SCOTUS with their carefully
groomed hand-picked appointed justices. THIS is why the rethugs are so comfortable carrying out these atrocities. President Obama's efforts to prosecute them would be OBSTRUCTED at EVERY TURN! DEFEAT ALL REPUBLICANS!!! VOTE EARLY! VOTE ABSENTEE BALLOT! VOTE 2012!!!!
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