Just when you thought Dick Cheney was gone for good, he’s back on television to promote his new book, In My Time. He predicted heads all around Washington would explode; if only his head would explode. Cheney is a bad man and I don’t mean bad as in good. How many Vice Presidents write scathing tell-all books about their time in office; not many. It was released this past Tuesday and it’s already causing a stir. Cheney is highly critical of former Secretary of Sate, Colin Powell accusing him of trying to undermine President Bush by privately expressing doubts about the Iraq war. Colin Powell paints a different picture saying on Face the Nation this past Sunday that while he may have expressed concerns about the war; he told the President to his face how he felt. Moreover, he was the one that went to the United Nations and stated the case for war pointing out the so-believed weapons of mass destruction. A move, by the way, that destroyed his credibility since no WMDs were ever found; ever. Cheney also didn’t like CIA Director, George Tenet nor Powell’s successor Condoleezza Rice; labeling one a quitter and the other a cry baby. Condi is having none of it saying she has no memory of “tearfully” admitting she had been wrong to push for Bush to apologize for inaccurately alleging that Iraq had attempted to obtain yellowcake uranium in Niger. All the while Darth Cheney is laughing and not apologizing…”I think we got it right,” referring to the policies of the Bush Administration. He does apologize, however, for getting kicked out of Yale; twice. Let me ask you this, America, how did one Richard Cheney’s Yale expulsion turn your world upside down? Cheney is delusional if he sees no wrong that was done in the eight years he served as vice president.
Cheney will go down as one of the more powerful presidents in recent history and it’s a well deserved title. Remember the Energy Task Force of which Bush made Cheney chair? The ten meetings held by the task force were never open to the public and the subsequent records remain secret after much legal wrangling. It’s believed that top oil company executives from Exxon-Mobil, Conoco as well as BP met with the task force while they were developing national energy policy. Who knows what kind of concessions they received on the backs of consumers.
Such secrecy was a hallmark of the Bush Administration and Cheney specifically who went so far as to have the vice presidential house censored on Google Maps. But Cheney isn’t holding back in his book; he still defends what he calls tough interrogations(torture) done by the administration and who knew he offered to resign several times as Bush prepared for re-election in 2004. Many critics say the book seems to be about settling scores and is basically a rehashing of events already known.
So far no heads have exploded but the tone of his memoir is not going make him popular; especially with his former counterparts. It’s sad that in his frail state he remains the same Darth Cheney.
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