Dick Cheney: A Land of Contrast

To listen to the verbal paean to Dick Cheney over at The Bulwark, you would barely know he had anything to do with the Iraq War.  His love of family, fly fishing, the Ford/Reagan primary fight, and his grumbling opposition to Trump were all given more airspace than his torture regime or his engineering the worst foreign policy debacle in modern American history based on lies.

Which shouldn't surprise anyone given that Bulwark's token "liberal", Jonathan Last, basically handed the mic over to the Iraq Debacle's greatest civilian cheerleader, Bloody Bill Kristol, adding occasional prompts that amounted to "Why was Cheney so awesome?

[I also learned that Liz Cheney was some kinda Super Secret Resistance Hero long before January 6th.  During all that time she was calling us baby-murdering scum and "the face of pure evil" she apparently was secretly only doing that so she could stay in good with Il Douche... so she could mitigate from the inside some of the monstrous damage Trump was doing during his first term.]

Here, for your reading pleasure, is the entirety of what Bloody Bill Kristol had to say about his Iraq War blood brother, Dick Cheney, on the subject of Cheney's eight years as Dubya's regent and the de facto president of the United States.  To give it a real Sensurround feeling, imagine Kristol sniffling and chuckling every five or seven words.

Um... so... but he was always respect... I mean the degree to which he was... the modern ... the view... if you, your age or a little younger and all younger I guess, and... and all you remember is the Bush years,  and the Dubya Bush years and the ...

Is he gonna say it?  Of course he's gonna say it!

... controversies about the war, 

Observe as Kristol flails around, trying to find a "t" word other than "torture.

... and... and... the... the treatment of the... uh, uh people in Guantanamo and... and the War on Terror and so forth...

I really considered titling this post "Guantanamo and the War on Terror and So Forth".

...uh, that's really misses what was so much of Cheney's life and legacy...

Sure there was some controversy going on up in the presidential box last what with, uh, uh Lincoln and Booth and so forth, but that really misses what an above-average performance of "Our American Cousin" was put on there last night.

Kristol continues:

I mean the degree to which he was respected by everyone and taken seriously by everyone and not thought to be a sort of self-promoter or going for cheap shots ...

Sorry to interrupt, but we have some late breaking news from The Before Time.  Specifically from Politico, April 23, 2010:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney says telling Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to go “fuck- yourself” was “the best thing I ever did.”

Again, management apologies for the interruption.   

Kristol continues:

... or all that sort of stuff.   That was really striking to me in the... in the... when I got to Washington in '85 for the next 15 years it got, uh, as I say, people really need to... should ...and I think that was... I think he always tried to behave that way, y'know.  He had very strong views about the War on Terror and people are entitled to disagree with him. 

Maybe now we are "entitled" but we terrorist-loving, Murrica-hating, surrender monkeys all sure as shit paid a heavy price back when it mattered.  Back when publicly taking on the Bush administration, and Conservative media, and the complicit legacy media meant making yourself a media pariah for life, thanks to a mob of fire-breathing, blood-drunk assholes led by Bill Kristol and his Weekly Standard.

Maybe they led him a bit awry at times, but... or astray at times, but... um... I mean, he was a public spirited public servant.

Perhaps I'll write something later about how the successful campaign to bulldoze the entire Bush administration down the Memory hole and let Bush and Cheney and all their henchmen like Kristol, and the rest of the Republican party, and the Conservative movement, and the legacy media off the hook led directly to the rise of Trump.

Or perhaps I'll just repost any of the dozens of posts I have already written on the subject.

Who knows?

 Until then...

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