Stink of blood money in the air - must be Deadeye (Dick Cheney)

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Stink of blood money in the air - must be Deadeye

Mike Carlton
February 17, 2007

Chickenhawk-in-Chief is coming.
We are to be visited next week by Deadeye Dick Cheney, the most odious individual to hold the office of US Vice-President since the criminal Spiro Agnew resigned in disgrace from the Nixon administration
A little history to begin with: first the chicken. Asked in 1989 by The Washington Post why he had dodged the draft for the Vietnam War, Cheney notoriously replied that "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service".

Now the hawk. In recent years, his enthusiasm for military service - other people's military service, that is - has multiplied like anthrax. No man, not even George Bush, has done more to drive the American disaster in Iraq.
Cheney was the first to trumpet the delusion that the September 11, 2001 terrorist atrocity was linked to Saddam Hussein. Fixated on a punitive war in Iraq, he connived with his old buddy Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon to set up a personal intelligence network that would bypass the professional Washington spy agencies and construct the casus belli he needed. Cherry-picking the evidence, often relying on scheming Iraqi exiles with an axe to grind and money to make, Cheney vigorously pushed the fabrication that the Iraq dictator intended to attack the United States.

"We discovered … the allegation that one of the lead hijackers, Mohamed Atta, had, in fact, met with Iraqi intelligence in Prague," he announced in March 2002.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/stink-of-blood-money-in-the-air--must-be-deadeye/2007/02/16/1171405438865.html

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