Dick Cheney's Memoir the Saddest Story of Our Time

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This "review" sounds mostly like the drunk lefty at the end of the vodka and juice bar at 1:00 AM (Janeane Garofalo anyone). I have no idea want kind of boogie man the left would concoct if it couldn't use Cheney. When the yingyang who wrote this refers to Cheney as a "tribal leader" you know your going into insane rant land.

Conrad Shull of PA 2:23PM August 30, 2011

It must be nice to be able to go through life picking and chosing what to remember as the "truth"! Cheney was definitely no angel, but he wasn't the Devil In Disguise that the Left wants to portray him as being.

enzo of IN 12:40PM August 30, 2011

for cheney the penning of his book is little more than a futile attempt to burnish his tattered image at the expense of others.

bruce b of NV 12:21PM August 30, 2011

Cheney's book tries to justify the "unjustifiable." In short, Cheney tries to shovel away the dirt that has piled up on his legacy, and portray himself as a patriot. His book reminds me a famous quote from Al Capone: "My rackets are run on strictly American lines, and they are going to stay that way!"
With the anti-American hostility in the Muslim countries hovering around 94%; with European opinion against Bush-Cheney at the end of their tenure around 74%; with 69% of Americans considered Bush and Cheney "Good Riddance" at their last few months in office, and with the British newspaper The Mirror carrying the headline: "How can 56 million Americans Be So Stupid," [the 56 million Americans who voted to re-elect Bush-Cheney], the polls worldwide regard Cheney as dumpster material - not as a respected public official. And surely, Cheney was the one that publicly declared that "water-boarding" and other torture technics were "a no brainer," on quote!
Surely, Cheney, who lives with serious heart conditions that may send him to his maker at any moment, would rather not leave this world with a legacy that is akin to Al Capone - shoot and torture all your opponents. And his company, Haliburton, has hundreds of thousands of military contractors - according to a senator Harry Reid interview on National Public Radio- that have make him a billionaire! Now Cheney's children, grandchildren, and his generation as a whole would live like the Rockefellers at the spoils of Bush-Cheney wars.
Finally, the fact that Cheney tries to repair and salvage his bad public service record with his book - rather than brag about- is an indisputable fact that Cheney knows he is cursed by most people - both domestically and internationally. And former Secretary of State, Collin Powell, stopped just short of calling him a liar on the CBS "Face the Nation" last Sunday.
Cheney might have pulled a naive and inept George Bush by the nose, and caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, and millions of Iraqis to become refugees, but his book will stink and surely burned as devilish around the world. And if the U.S. weren't a superpower, he would have been hunted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for "crimes against humanity." But he is still free because the U.S. is an untouchable superpower, not a participating member of the (ICC), but controls it with it funding, and its heavy weight clout on Canada and Europe that control its voting power in the appointments of its judges and prosecutors.
Cheney has escaped prosecution for crimes against humanity, but history will pile dirt on his legacy - not laurels! Nikos Retsos, retired professor

Nikos Retsos of IL 10:19AM August 30, 2011

Dick Cheney is a small, sad, bitter, evil, dying man. This is his final chance to shoot his colleagues in the face and he knows it. The cold smirk says it all.
http://bit.ly/pgteDv

Parky Bill of MD 9:16AM August 30, 2011

Have no idea what you are complaining about. I can only see the wars. Guess what, Democrats saw wars coming:
If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
--President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
-Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
-- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
-- Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
-- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
http://www.davidstuff.com/political/wmdquotes.htm

Bill Hedges of MO 6:11AM August 30, 2011

That article was so brilliant! Couldn't have said it better myself. Read "Worse Than Watergate" about Cheney's secrecy. It got worse...
This man is sick. Sick in his heart; sick in his actions. He has ruined us. Along with Bush. Every major problem we have right now was brought to a dysfunctional head by the workings of Dick Cheney and Bush Administration. He is an archetype we must evolve past. He represents a sickness in our national soul. The need to win. The need to overpower. The need to create enemies by that overpowering; than kill them, in order to feel a bizarre sense of heroism. The need to feel powerful, at the expense of others. The need to fight and fight and fight and fight. The need to conquer. Something. To justify one's existence. To give value to ourselves through that conquering.
Yet, the people want to have feelings of good will. Also. To be at peace. To work to live, not live to work. To cooperate. To find creative and meaningful ways to get along. To be constructively creative. To go beyond the fight or flight paranoid reality. To transcend dog-eat-dog myth. To move toward a cooperative society. Sanity. Heartfulness. Generosity of spirit.
You, too, Cheney, will pass. You are a dinosaur, soon to be instinct. We cannot live in your land any longer. This world calls upon us to evolve. You have shown us our dark side. We need to integrate it, rechoose, and transcend.
I hope we will...

Sharon of CA 4:47AM August 30, 2011

the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event should be re-named describing Obama's entire POTUS tenure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Tertiary_extinction_event
...the saddest story in History!
(no kidding, folks!)

John Wayne of NM 4:26AM August 30, 2011

Rabbinical Student 1: My Rabbi is so powerful that, if he told that wall to fall down, IT WOULD!
Rabbinical Student 2: That's nothing! If My Reb told it NOT to fall down, IT WOULDN'T!
"The 9-11 terrorist attacks played out perfectly for Cheney, as a pretext for what he intended the administration to do anyway—invade Iraq."
Thank Goodness for 9/11! If not for 9/11 there would have been NO Iraq war. Or there WOULD have been an Iraq war even without 9/11!
Is that what you require us to believe? That the wall would NOT have fallen if Cheney had told it not to?
How perfect a rabbinical student you would be! To think that Dick Cheney could affect world events with a snap of his fingers, by telling the world what he wanted to do and expecting the world to hup-to!
That's power!
Of course it's the kind of power only deeply paranoid people, and you, credit; but we'll leave you to stew in your own excrement...

elixelx 3:12AM August 30, 2011

I read U.S. News from the late 1960's as a teenager. U.S. News was owned by shareholding staff and workers. I was proud when I discovered that I could cite U.S. News in research papers but could not cite either Time or Newsweek as authority.
What a difference a few decades and a change in ownership make. This rant against Dick Cheney is the work of a shameless muckraker. "I HATE CHENEY," rings loud and clear. But the only substance is the skeleton of hackneyed lies. The war against Iraq was authorized by the United Nations because Hussein did not cooperate with international monitoring of Iraqi weapons. The issue was there was no monitoring, not that Cheney or anyone else asserted there were wmd's. This rant is the stuff found on the walls of public rest rooms. Who allowed this to go to print?

James Hill of AK 2:55AM August 30, 2011