Hasn't Dick Cheney made enough money off Criminal Policies

And, yes, policies can, indeed, be criminal.

Quite a few governments, around the world, in my life time have had their policies labeled as criminal by the United States as well as the U.N.

Just because we do it, does not make it legal, moral or even smart. Actually, given our former power, military as well as economic, Bush policies, which include the use of wars of aggression, based on deception and fear-mongering, and torture, just to name a couple of international crimes from the last administration, the crimes of the last administration are even more horrible than most.

Don't even get me started on the domestic crimes!

Contrary to popular belief, the president takes an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, not the people of America. Certainly any POTUS sees his or her mission as protecting the people when we are under attack, but that is not what a president is sworn to do. Our Constitution is far more important than any 1 or one hundred thousand Americans.

If certain Americans would not feel more protected with real time information about a threat to our nation, those Americans are obvious victims of the dumbing down of America.

How fearful have any of you really been?

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
by Christine Bowman

As Molly Ivins used to like to say, dripping with irony, "Isn't that nice?" Dick Cheney has found a publisher for his memoirs. Now all he needs is some #2 pencils and a good title.

A recent contest at BuzzFlash should certainly help with the latter. Our readers were brimming with creative ideas for titling Cheney's memoir., and the winning entries are.....

As a progresssive political watchdog site on the Internet, BuzzFlash has kept an eager watch on former Vice President Dick Cheney's retirement activities. And, honestly? There's been much less hunting and fishing than we had hoped. Instead, the Veep has settled into his residence in Virginia, evidently in close proximity to a Fox News studio. He could have headed for the Wyoming hills or helped out daughter Liz by babysitting the grandkids, but Cheney instead has focused on trashing the Democratic president publicly and 'splainin' anew his take on American foreign policy.

But once again, he has a real project to sink his teeth into. His pal and former employee Mary Matalin has agreed to pay Cheney millions (that's the speculation) to spill his guts.

Or, will Editor Matalin, who also signed Glenn Beck and Mark Levin to the CBS-owned Simon & Schuster Threshold imprint, make sure that he doesn't? After all, she, too, was one of the insiders in the 2002 lead-up to the Iraq War -- one of the White House Iraq Study Group (WHIG) gang who brainstormed the marketing of the war, eventually settling on the WMDs and mushroom cloud story.

(We hear that Vice is getting $2,000,000. Pardon me, but has my memory failed me? Didn't Hillary Clinton get a better advance than that, like $10,000,000? Looks like Mary had to dig for the cash her old pal and boss.)

"I’m persuaded there are a lot of interesting stories that ought to be told," Cheney told the AP this week. On that point, we would heartily agree. "I want my grandkids, 20 or 30 years from now, to be able to read it and understand what I did, and why I did it." It remains a mystery just how the reported $2 million contract will enhance Grandpa's ability to just tell the family his side of things.

(Yeah, why not simply leave them a letter from Grandpa? Hasn't Cheney made enough money off the policies of the last administration?)

Writers at The New York Times seem to have explained Cheney's motivations a bit more realistically when they reported back in May that he was shopping the upcoming memoir to publishers. They observed that his memoir ...

... would add to what is already an unusually dense collection of post-Bush-presidency memoirs that will offer a collective rebuttal to the many harshly critical works released while the writers were in office and beyond.

(We plan to boycott all of them, unless there is truth in them. Publishers should lose money if they knowingly publish lies, especially recycled lies, while not under oath).)

Yep. There are stories to be told, all right, and they should be told in perfect harmony:

Already working hard to meet publishers’ deadlines is an informal writers’ workshop of historic proportions: President George W. Bush; Laura Bush, the former first lady; former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; former Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.; former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld; and Karl Rove, the former presidential political mastermind.

(God, what a Rogues Gallery that is!)

Members of the Bush group are in regular contact as they seek to jog their memories, compare notes and trade stylistic tips in their new lives as authors, according to friends and current and former aides.

The coming crush of books reflects what former Bush officials describe as a desire to produce their own drafts of history ...

Mr. Cheney is writing out his thoughts longhand in an office above his garage in Virginia and is in frequent contact with the other newly minted Bush administration authors, right on up to Mr. Bush.

A report by U.S. News & World Report about a visit by Mr. Cheney to Mr. Rumsfeld’s Washington office in March prompted speculation that they were trying to match up their stories, which a Rumsfeld spokesman, Keith Urbahn, denied.

Dick Cheney and his eager assistant, daughter Liz, sure have their work cut out for them. But they had better get cracking if they want to shape the eventual tale and beat others to the book tour circuit. Whatever would they do if a Colin Powell, for instance, were to jump in and write their history first? And suppose Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson were to lend Powell a helping hand ...?

(Where in hell is Lynn? Has anyone heard anything from the former, mouthy second-lady since Dick shot the old guy in the face? The reason we ask is that it was revealed at the time, briefly, that one of the women in attendance at Dick's fake hunting trip (The birds are caged and released so they can be shot by any fool.) was hated by Lynn Cheney. Mrs. Cheney strikes me as a lady not easy to forgive public slights or embarrassments.

Unlike a Cheney memoir, that alternative, indeed, would soar to the top and become a bestseller for us at The BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace.

I won't hold my breath.

^{Washington Post Photo: "In a bunker under the White House on Sept. 11, 2001, Cheney speaks to administration officials, including from far left, Joshua B. Bolten, Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin (standing), Condoleezza Rice and I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby (behind Rice)"}

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