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In the end, the shame of Vice President Dick Cheney was total: unmitigated by any notion of a graceful departure, let alone the slightest obligation of honest accounting.
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slate.com - 12/23/2008
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In an ever-escalating game of chicken between the executive...
branch and the rest of the world, Vice President Dick Cheney wants you to understand that he has done nothing wrong over the past eight years. ...
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Robert Scheer: Cheney's Legacy of Deception
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... from the economic problems at home. As I asked in a column on June 26, 2002: "Has the war on terrorism become the modern equivalent of the Roman circus, drawing the people's attention away from the failures of those who rule them? Corporate America is a shambles because deregulation, the mantra of our president and his party, has proved to be a license to steal."
That is the true legacy of Dick Cheney and the president he ill-served.
Robert Scheer is the editor of Truthdig, where this article originally appeared.
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Cheney’s Legacy of Deception
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... In the end, the shame of Vice President Dick Cheney was total: unmitigated by any notion of a graceful departure, let alone the slightest obligation of honest accounting.? READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries ...
Putting a stake through the "Cheney legacy"
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From Robert Scheer: In the end, the shame of Vice President Dick Cheney was total: unmitigated by any notion of a graceful departure, let alone the slightest obligation of honest accounting. Although firmly ensconced, even in the popular imagination, as an example of evil incarnate—nearly a quarter of those polled in this week’s CNN poll rated him the worst vice president in U.S. history, and 41 percent as “poor”—Cheney exudes the confidence of one fully convinced that he will get away with it all.... The Bush administration, with Cheney in the lead, did not so ...
Saying Goodbye to 2008
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... Arianna Huffington# (from AlterNet,) who says, "The Right-wing Economics That Got Us Into This Mess Should Go the Way of Soviet Communism." CNBC's Biased Reporting on the PPT# [Plunge Protection Team]: (from Funny Money Report) -- Did the government manipulate the financial market? Say Goodbye to corporate greed, lawlessness and ineptitude, facilitated by Vice-President Dick Cheney. (see also -- "Cheney's Legacy of Deception*" from 12/23/08 - TruthDig. "The 10 Worst ...
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Cheney: Water-boarding was appropriate
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Vice President Dick Cheney says he supported interrogation tactics that were used against the terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- including that which has been described as "water-boarding.''
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Cheney’s Highest Moment in the Last 8 Years? 9/11.
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Dick Cheney, author
washingtonmonthly.com 1/13/2009 — DICK CHENEY, AUTHOR.... Dick Cheney will be leaving public life fairly soon -- 170 hours, but who's counting -- but once he has some time away from his "duties," the notorious Vice President plans to write a book. ...Cheney, the...
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politico.com 11/2/2008 —
McCain's campaign and the RNC have done everything possible to keep Bush and Cheney hidden from view, but Obama is jumping on any glimpse of the unpopular duo.
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Exclusive: Cheney Holds Hard-Line Stance
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