I’m convinced that Evil is inherent in some people no matter what situation they go through there is no epiphany, no “wow I’ve gone through some things and God has been good to me” or since some are loathe to acknowledge God , then maybe” wow I’ve been lucky, let me change some things about myself”.
Take Dick Cheney for instance. Here’s a guy many in other countries and indeed right here in America believe is a darn war criminal who should be tried in the Hague for war crimes.
Cheney created and nurtured intelligence to support war on a sovereign nation. Reports indicate Cheney manipulated the Intelligence Agencies to manufacture intelligence in support of the Political right’s illegitimate war with Iraq.
The Iraq war led to the death of Saddam Hussein and his sons . Hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis and the death and maiming of thousands of American soldiers. It resulted in the creation of the group which now calls itself ISIL. The fallout from the Iraq invasion has been consequential and so far reaching no sane person should keep quiet about its consequence on our world.
I must first say That I am personally offended that the likes of Dick Cheney and the White Fundamentalists fringe of the Political right assume to have authority over this planet everyone else.
What bothers me is that this piece of crap is functioning with a heart belonging to someone else that could easily have been given to someone more deserving.
As Salon.com Joan Walsh wrote :
In an interview given by Cheney to Larry King on CNN . Cheney said..
When I came out from under the anesthetic after the transplant, I was euphoric. I’d had – I’d been given the gift of additional lives, additional years of life. For the family of the donor, they’d just been [through] some terrible tragedy, they’d lost a family member. Can’t tell why, obviously, when you don’t know the details, but the way I think of it from a psychological standpoint is that it’s my new heart, not someone else’s old heart. And I always thank the donor, generically thank donors for the gift that I’ve been given, but I don’t spend time wondering who had it, what they’d done, what kind of person. “It’s my new heart, not someone else’s old heart.”
Walsh wrote:
Consider the complete self-centeredness of that statement, and the utter lack of empathy. I shouldn’t be surprised at that — war criminals and torture-promoters aren’t known for their empathy — but I was. Cheney’s so absorbed in his great good luck that he can’t help sharing: “My cardiologist told me at one point, ‘You know, Dick, the transplant is a spiritual experience, not just for the patient, but also for the team.’” What a generous guy, sharing that “spiritual experience” with his cardiology team! So: Cheney is happy to have a new heart, but doesn’t bother to “spend time wondering who had it, what they’d done, what kind of person.” And his statement that it wasn’t a “priority” to learn about his heart donor revealingly echoes his explanation for getting five deferments from the Vietnam War: The notorious war hawk famously told the Washington Post: “I had other priorities in the ’60s than military service.” Now he has other priorities than learning about his heart donor. It’s certainly not compulsory to find out about the person who died so that you could live – who gave what Cheney called “the gift of life itself.” There may be valid psychological reasons not to. I don’t judge that decision. But I can’t get over the coldness required to express complete indifference to knowing about that person, and their family’s suffering. Or could it be compassion? For a lot of people, the tragedy of a family member dying would be compounded, not lessened, by learning that their heart went to Cheney. Nah, there’s neither compassion nor self-awareness in the way Cheney talks about receiving “the gift of life,” from American taxpayers or from his mystery heart donor. See story here :http://www.salon.com/2013/11/14/dick_cheney_even_bigger_monster_than_you_thought/
The draft dodging war criminal Dick Cheney is back as he does every election cycle, like a perennial garden plant but a lot more sinister and dangerous donated heart and all. One would have thought that a and given a second chance at life would be far more retrospective and philosophical. But if he doesn’t care about where or whom he received the new heart from how can anyone expect this demon to have a change of heart[pun]?
As the Vice President to President George Bush who selected himself after he was given the task of searching for a possible vice presidential running mate for then candidate Bush Dick Cheney has not followed his Boss’s lead in staying out of the fray after eight years in office. Instead he has used every opportunity to attack President Obama’s leadership on everything from the Economy to Foreign Policy , both areas in which his and his boss’s leadership has created unmanageable consequences for America and the entire world.
Of all the things Dick Cheney said nothing bothered me more than this statement.….
President Barack Obama’s goal in the Iran nuclear deal appears to have been to make Iran the top power in the Middle East, former Vice President Dick Cheney told Newsmax TV. “The only way to interpret it and what his motives were was he really wanted to boost Iran’s position in that part of the world and make them the dominant force at the expense of our allies,”.
This is as far as Cheney will go and further in his incessant attack on President Obama. It hasn’t been the first time the war criminal Cheney has questioned the President’s motivations and loyalty.
Barack Obama has no intention of dragging America back into another war in the middle east as Bush Cheney and the neo-cons did which resulted in a fractured Iraq , and Syria and the creation of ISIL which is causing catastrophic refugee crises as we speak.
Notwithstanding the former vice president who made America a torture state is still pressing for war against Iran a much more powerful nation than Iraq , a war which would essentially mean the second world war because of the complex entanglements in the region .
Of course a war between America and Iranwould significantly benefit Halliburton and Cheney s the war between America and Iraq did. The website http://readersupportednews.org/ reported that after a decade of war The company was given $39.5 billion in Iraq-related contracts over the past decade, with many of the deals given without any bidding from competing firms, such as a $568-million contract renewal in 2010 to provide housing, meals, water and bathroom services to soldiers, a deal that led to a Justice Department lawsuit over alleged kickbacks, as reported by Bloomberg.WATCH: Rand Paul Says Dick Cheney Pushed for the Iraq War So Halliburton Would Profit Then senate candidate Rand Paul ®Kentucky speaking to students Republicans at Western Kentucky University
There’s a great YouTube of Dick Cheney in 1995 defending [President] Bush No. 1 [and the decision not to invade Baghdad in the first Gulf War], and he goes on for about five minutes. He’s being interviewed, I think, by the American Enterprise Institute, and he says it would be a disaster, it would be vastly expensive, it’d be civil war, we would have no exit strategy. He goes on and on for five minutes. Dick Cheney saying it would be a bad idea. And that’s why the first Bush didn’t go into Baghdad. Dick Cheney then goes to work for Halliburton. Makes hundreds of millions of dollars, their CEO. Next thing you know, he’s back in government and it’s a good idea to go into Iraq.
Paul continued:
The day after 9⁄11, [CIA chief] George Tenet is going in the [White] House and [Pentagon adviser] Richard Perle is coming out of the White House. And George Tenet should know more about intelligence than anybody in the world, and the first thing Richard Perle says to him on the way out is, “We’ve got it, now we can go into Iraq.” And George Tenet, who supposedly knows as much intelligence as anybody in the White House says, “Well, don’t we need to know that they have some connection to 9⁄11?” And, he [Perle] says, “It doesn’t matter.” It became an excuse. 9⁄11 became an excuse for a war they already wanted in Iraq.