Tag Archives: Cheney

Dubya : The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Image from SodaHead.Bush, Cheney and Halliburton:The making of a disaster By Ed Felien / The Rag Blog / May 21, 2010 He gave us the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, an economic collapse, tax cuts for the wealthy … Continue reading

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Juan Cole’s Tale of Two (Not So Regular) Joes

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Dick Cheney : Assassination Nation

Dick Cheney: More tales from the dark side Peter Berger, a security analyst at the American Enterprise Institute thinks that, judging from Congressional reaction, the program must have involved much more than killing some Al Qaeda people. By Sherman DeBrosse … Continue reading

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Juan Cole on Cheney’s Criminal Irrelevance – II

Truth Commission Needed to Examine Cheney, Assassination Squads, Cover-UpsBy Juan Cole / July 13, 2009 It turns out that the secret CIA program that Leon Panetta cancelled, and which former VP Richard Bruce Cheney ordered hidden from Congress, was in … Continue reading

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Darth Vader Redux : Cheney and the CIA’s ‘Executive Assassination Ring’

President George W. Bush and George J. Tenet, then director of the CIA, meet at the agency headquarters in 2001, the year the secret program began. Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP / Washington Post.Dick Cheney and the CIA:The … Continue reading

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‘Dollar Bill’ Jefferson and the Case of the Cold Cash

Government exhibit 20-45C. This photo was presented July 8, 2009, as court evidence in the trial of Rep. William Jefferson, D-La. It was provided by the U.S. Attorney’s office and shows an FBI agent holding contents seized on Aug. 3, … Continue reading

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Juan Cole on Dick Cheney’s Criminal Irrelevance

Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images.Cheney Worries about Wasting the Sacrifices made in Iraq on behalf of Big OilBy Juan Cole / July 2, 2009 Dick Cheney reacted to the cessation of unilateral US patrols of major cities in Iraq, saying that … Continue reading

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Dick Cheney and The Curse of the Pomegranate Seeds

Image by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog. No one is happier than Hades, chortling down in his dark homey hell while topside the earthly GOP, Guardians of Pomegranates, urged on by Hades’ emissary, Dark Dick, pass out the fruit’s … Continue reading

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Dick Cheney: The Dangerous Legacies Live On

The hidden hand of Dick CheneyBy Juan Cole / May 13, 2009 Out of office, he continues to push his tortured version of reality — and his vision of an imperial presidency — and there are signs he is succeeding. … Continue reading

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Life During Wartime : Stress We Can Believe In

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Dick Cheney : A Political Madness

Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog. (Thanks to Hieronymus Bosch for the look into Dick’s Dark Brain.) Dick Cheney is sadly childlike in his petulant public outbursts. There is a mad gleam in his eye as he insists … Continue reading

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Did Bush Administration Have ‘Executive Assassination Ring?’

Investigative reporter Sy Hersh dropped a bombshell at the University of Minnesota, March 11, 2009. The Bush administration held that, as commander in chief, the president could authorize almost anything. By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog / March 24, … Continue reading

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