Dick Cheney’s dark legacy: It’s his world, we’re just living in it

[DonViejo]

Torture, secrecy, military adventurism. Dick Cheney, more than anyone else, set the course for America after 9/11

MARK DANNER, TOMDISPATCH.COM

This essay appears in the March 6th issue of the New York Review of Books. It was originally posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine. The film and two books under review in this piece are listed at the end of the essay.

If you’re a man of principle, compromise is a bit of a dirty word.
– Dick Cheney, 2013

1. “We Ought to Take It Out”

In early 2007, as Iraq seemed to be slipping inexorably into chaos and President George W. Bush into inescapable political purgatory, Meir Dagan, the head of the Israeli Mossad, flew to Washington, sat down in a sunlit office of the West Wing of the White House, and spread out on the coffee table before him a series of photographs showing a strange-looking building rising out of the sands in the desert of eastern Syria. Vice President Dick Cheney did not have to be told what it was. “They tried to hide it down a wadi, a gulley,” he recalls to filmmaker R.J. Cutler.

“There’s no population around it anyplace… You can’t say it’s to generate electricity, there’s no power line coming out of it. It’s just out there obviously for production of plutonium.”

The Syrians were secretly building a nuclear plant — with the help, it appeared, of the North Koreans. Though the United States was already embroiled in two difficult, unpopular, and seemingly endless wars, though its military was overstretched and its people impatient and angry, the vice president had no doubt what needed to be done: “Condi recommended taking it to the United Nations. I strongly recommended that we ought to take it out.”

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[truth2power]

1. If anyone now living on planet earth COULD be

one of those reptilian creatures David Icke talks about, it's Cheney.

Evil, sick SOB.