Cheney used insult Mussolini favored against UK

[kpete]

Source: Raw Story

Cheney used insult Mussolini favored against UK

Maybe those Antifa folks heard about this. It's news to me.

From a Seymour Hersh piece in the April 6 edition of The New Yorker:

As the Bush era wound down, U.S. allies were making their own openings to Syria. In mid-November, David Miliband, the British Foreign Secretary, distressed the White House by flying to Damascus for a meeting with Assad. They agreed that Britain and Syria would establish a high-level exchange of intelligence. Vice-President Dick Cheney viewed the move by Britain—“perfidious Albion,” as he put it—as “a stab in the back,” according to a former senior intelligence official.

Perfidious Albion? Perfidious Albion?!

I hate to sound like John McCain but ... My friends, that's a term most recently popularized by Italy's fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

more at:
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/03/cheney-used-fascist-mussolini-insult-against-uk/

Read more: http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/03/cheney-used-fascist-mussolini-insult-against-uk/

[peekaloo]

1. Yeah and those heart implants make his veins run on time, too.

[rusty fender]

3. LOL--excellent description! n/t

[pattmarty]

2. We all know here that he's a Fascist.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Mussolini was quoting an 18th-Century Frenchman

In the Middle Ages, some French leaders liked to refer to "perfidious England". In the 18th Century, a French politician came up with "perfidious Albion".

It seems entirely possible to me that Cheney was thinking of that, not of Mussolini.

[marasinghe]

9. buddhist here; i prefer the reincarnation hypothesis - of il duce that is.

imo: that would explain both facets of il dick - the fathead & the fascist.

[Aviation Pro]

5. This walking fucknut turd.....

...has read too many spy novels and is too steeped in the urban myths of the OSS. Hey, Shitstain Shoots-Guy-In-Face, bend over and tie your shoe and the wet boys will get the message.

Oh, and you will never be an honorary member of S&B, you third-tier, five deferment, wannabe poser.

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

6. Et tu, Brute? Figured I'd keep wih the theme....

[SOS]

7. Seems to be a popular term at the fascist AEI

"I shouldn't have paid so much attention to the British press (perfidious Albion!)."
- avowed fascist Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute

https://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen033103.asp

AEI (home to Cheney, Ledeen, Wolfowitz etc) grew out of the American Liberty League. The Liberty League was a wildly pro-Hitler, pro-Mussolini group.
They included Prescott Bush, the DuPonts and were funded by U.S. Steel, General Motors, General Foods, Standard Oil, Birdseye, Colgate, Heinz Foods, Chase National Bank, and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.
Only after Pearl Harbor did the American fascists disband their overt support for Hitler and Mussolini, but they continued to fund the Nazi war effort.
The AEI was founded in 1943, to continue the pro-fascist agenda in America under more genteel cover.

Seems that "perfidious Albion" is a popular term among the American fascist movement.

[New Dawn]

8. Not surprising: Neocons are fascists.