Reply #11: because they got tiger by the tail [View All]

[pitohui]

i don't understand all of them but i feel i understand dick cheney, never was a man in public life who so disliked being in the public eye

for him it was about the $$$ not about fame or "power"

so along came the bad decision to acquire dressler and then halliburton discovered they were going to be liable for all these asbestos claims and they were going to go BUSTO, which would mean no more $$$ for dick cheney, former CEO who expected to retire in wealth on all his wonderful stock options

to save halliburton he's got to get into public office, since he hates the public eye, best to get a stoopit puppet he can control while he plays the part of the harmless veep who hides in the hiding hole waiting to be back-up, a war of some sort had to be started to save halliburton and not so incidentally mr. cheney's stock options

then once his millionaire retirement was saved, another problem came to be

he likely thought he would live only a few months or years more w. the bad heart issues but the ticker keeps on ticking and he seems to have a decent life expectancy, so now it isn't just about the $$$, it's about the staying out of jail

they HAVE to maintain power because once they lose it, the crap is going to come out about all the crimes they committed and they're going to end up in jail

so cheney got a tiger by the tail and he can't let go, all he can do is grab more and more and more to sort of keep the momentum going