Dick Cheney Dubbed Lord of the Lies

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Dick Cheney Dubbed Lord of the Lies
by Bill Gallagher | May 15 2007


— from Niagara Falls Reporter (posted with permission)


DETROIT -- Vice President Dick Cheney, the lord of the lies, left his cave for a bad-will tour of the Middle East, repeating his mad mantra: The path to peace in the region is marked with bullying, violence and American military muscle.

Cheney visited the heavily fortified but increasingly dangerous Green Zone in Baghdad to lecture Iraqi leaders. Cheney -- who once claimed U.S. forces would be "greeted as liberators" and predicted two years ago that the insurgency was in its "last throes" -- ran for cover when a bomb went off, rattling the windows in the building where he was issuing orders to the Iraqi civilians.

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What really frosted Cheney was how a Bushian vacation would delay work on legislation that will spell out how oil money will be distributed among Iraq's ethnic and sectarian groups. That, in turn, will affect when and how much oil money American and British oil companies will be able to suck out of the Iraqi sand.

Companies like Halliburton and Bechtel are also ready to cash in on the Iraqi crude. Cheney and his corporate cronies can't wait to use modern exploration methods to tap into the treasure of the still-unknown reserves of high-quality Iraqi oil.

Meantime, oil in Iraq is disappearing as fast as the millions of dollars in cash Cheney stuffed into the pockets of Ahmed Chalabi, the crook he wanted to plant as Iraq's strong man.

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Cockburn knows the truth: "The U.S. occupation has destabilized Iraq and the Middle East. Stability will not return until the occupation has ended. The Iraqi government, penned into the Green Zone, has become tainted in the eyes of Iraqis by reliance on a foreign power. Even when it tries to be independent, it seldom escapes the culture of dependency in which its members live. Much of what has gone wrong has more to do with the U.S. than Iraq. Iraq has joined the list of small wars -- as France found in Algeria in the 1950s and the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s -- that inflict extraordinary damage on their occupiers."

It's time for Congress to exercise damage control.