The most powerful Vice President in history
by digby
... is a right wing fanatic:
“I don’t think that Barack Obama believes that the U.S. is an exceptional nation,” Cheney complained on Fox and Friends. “Nobody cares much in the Middle East anymore what the U.S. thinks because we don’t keep our commitments.”
The former vice president moved to Iran and without mentioning any specific criticisms of the agreement, claimed it’s bad because of unrelated health care issues. “We don’t follow through and Iran we’ve got a very serious problem going forward and a deal now been cut,” he said. “The same people that brought us you can keep your insurance if you want are telling us they’ve got a great deal in Iran with respect to their nuclear program. I don’t believe it.
Keep in mind that this man is not just some talk radio gadfly. He spent 8 years at the highest level of government and was give free rein by the halfwit president who picked him, to do pretty much whatever he wanted. Recall that on 9/11 this man basically took over the government and ordered the shoot-down of commercial airplanes despite the fact that the president was in good health and fully accessible. Also keep in mind that the president refused to be interviewed alone by the members of the 9/11 commission and insisted that Cheney be at his side.
Dick Cheney had top level access to the entire US spying apparatus for nearly a decade, as did various loyal henchmen such as Scooter Libby and David Addington. What on earth makes people believe that someone like this could never abuse such access? In addition to his imperious assumption of authority on 9/11, his administration took office through a very dubious and undemocratic process, he was known for his visits to CIA headquarters where he made sure that information justifying an unjustifiable war was "stove-piped" and he was proved to be someone who would punish dissenters without compunction. And yet I still hear people pooh-poohing the Snowden revelations as if it's nothing that the government is collecting and hoarding extremely private, personal information on just about everyone because they just can't believe anyone in government could possibly have such ill-intent as to use it for the wrong reasons.
I sure wish I still believed in such fairy tales. Life would be so much simpler.
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