Cheney's "Staff 2001" cap at Auschwitz - what the hell was he thinking?

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Cheney's "Staff 2001" cap at Auschwitz - what the hell was he thinking?

What the Hell was he thinking?????
Dick Cheney as America's Representative at Auschwitz - 2005
by Dan Brown

"This should be a potent enough signal to the "base" that we don't take this sort of thing seriously, without riling up the neutered Democrats too much so they make a big deal out of it," thinks Dick Cheney, war profiteer, as he dresses up for the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of "Arbeitslager" Auschwitz.

Cheney, consummate politician, doesn't do anything accidentally. Therefore the question for me is why did he purposefully make those disrespectful clothing choices.

Recall 2003, when the only question Bush was heard to ask during his Auschwitz tour actually dealt with Holocaust revisionism: "Do people challenge the accuracy of what you present?" he asked his guide, the New York Times reported. This might seem a rather bizarre question at first glance – but then, Bush has a personal stake in the cultivation of historical amnesia. His own family fortune was built in part by a long and profitable collusion with the Nazis – an ugly story raked up again by Newsweek Poland during the presidential visit.

Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, and Prescott's father-in-law, George Herbert Walker, helped finance the rise of the Nazi Party through their intimate entanglements with Nazi industrial, shipping and banking interests. This long (and well-documented) collaboration continued even after America was at war with Nazi Germany. It seems the blood money was just too good to pass up – even if it had to be dug out of the corpses of young American soldiers and innocent civilians throughout Europe and North Africa. The Walker-Bush cabal's Nazi partners also helped finance – then profited from – the Auschwitz camp.

Finally, in 1942, the U.S. government seized the Walker-Bush Nazi assets under the Trading With the Enemy Act (the cash value was returned to Prescott in the 1950s, helping to fund his Senatorial race, and going into a trust fund that helped G.H.W. Bush in his political bids, including his runs for President, as well).

Today, the Walker-Bush tradition of war profiteering carries on under the Bush-Cheney heading. The Financial Times has documented that Bush-connected "reconstruction" firms Halliburton and Bechtel, now nominally in control of Iraq's oil fields, want to raise massive bank loans using future oil profits as collateral. In other words, the bloody war pirates will pocket billions in free money that will have to be paid back later by the Iraqi people, if and when their oil fields are returned, not unlike the cost extracted from the Poles in Silesian slave labor going into the pockets of Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker, and in building Auschwitz.

Cheney's Halliburton, and Bechtel already made millions with Saddam during the dictator's murderous heyday: Bechtel helped build Saddam's mustard-gas plants, while Halliburton, under Cheney, pocketed $73 million working with Saddam's UN-sanctioned regime after the first Gulf War. Halliburton still pays Cheney a tidy annual sum, but no one is apparently willing to confront this conflict of interest between business and government (Benito Mussolini had a name for this overt enmeshment of governmental power and business greed - fascism).

That's the way of the war profiteers, these men of "honor and integrity" who build their family fortunes, their corporate treasuries and their political dynasties on bone-ash.

In that light then, the the "Staff 2001" Wollmütze appears at once moistly nostalgic and ironically aspirational on Cheney's (and in his role as representative, the Bush Administration's and America's) part.

Thanks for laying it out for us, Dick.

Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota