Cheney's painful war for torture-Nothing short of a fullscale investigation can cauterize this wound

[BigBearJohn]

Having stampeded his ill-informed predecessor into a series of catastrophic blunders, it appears that Dick Cheney has declared open bureaucratic war — the only kind he’s ever known how to fight — upon President Barack Obama. After decades bullying the CIA and other intelligence agencies to affirm his crackpot worldviews, he’s trying to pull the same routine on the White House to redeem his own shattered reputation. Or is it something more sinister?

As the longtime leader of the Republican Party’s Chicken Little faction, Cheney’s career testifies to his skill at backstairs intrigue. Longtime allies have speculated that his health problems, followed by the 9/11 attacks, drove him around the bend. Gen. Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to two GOP presidents, told the New Yorker, “I don’t know him anymore.”

A less charitable view might be that maneuvering his way into the vice presidency finally gave Cheney the power to bend the CIA to his will. He’d been pestering the agency to report that the sky was falling since the 1970s, first as an acolyte of “Team B,” next the “Committee on the Present Danger” — well-financed efforts to depict the decrepit hulk of the Soviet Union as verging upon imminent world domination.

After the Berlin Wall’s collapse proved that the beleaguered CIA had actually dramatically overestimated Soviet might, Cheney, Rummy, Wolfie and the gang found a new obsession. Styling themselves the “Project for a New American Century,” they urged Bill Clinton to invade Iraq in 1999. Next would come Iran, and an American empire from the Mediterranean to the Himalayas.

This isn’t a fight Obama has wanted, but Cheney’s making it one he cannot avoid. Nothing short of a full-scale investigation can cauterize this wound.

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[NYC_SKP]

1. Your link requires registration. Here's a working one to same article: LINK

http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/articles/index.cfm?id=22619§ion=Opinion

And, great article.

And, yes, something far more sinister. Let's take it all the way.

Recommended.

[BigBearJohn]

3. Thanks! I updated the link.

[tularetom]

2. If he weren't such a total and utter asshole I'd almost have to admire him

Nobody played the Washington game any better.

He finagled himself onto the ticket in 2000 knowing he could wind the hapless and ignorant bush around his little finger and proceeded to do so for eight years much to the detriment of the country.

And if nobody intervenes I predict he will wind up throwing the sorry sumbitch to the wolves to save his own sick old ass. Bush will take the heat and the dick will walk away scot free.

The only political figure who is a match for him is Obama. And cheney will find out that he's in over his head with the prez. If Obama wants to make it happen, cheney will get what he deserves. You don't fuck with Obama, Ask Hillary and Bill Clinton. Ask John McCain.