Dick Cheney is the most evil American political figure since Nixon.... and I won't pretend to care

[scheming daemons]

if he dies.


Some people leave this world a better place when they die.


Some people leave this world a better place BECAUSE they die.



Dick Cheney would be classified under the latter.

[Lifelong Protester]

1. Nobody wants the bad karma of agreeing with this post

but we're recommending it. Well, hell. I'll sign my name.

[hlthe2b]

2. I wouldn't hold your breath... I doubt he's going anywhere...

Countless hundreds of thousands will die from lack of health care access before that happens to this man, the recipient of the best health care money (our tax $$) can buy.

[abbeyco]

3. He's a man so evil

that his heart is rejecting him.

I hope he lives, a life full of pain & anxiety about how/when his past activities will finally catch up to him.

What a sorry bastard he is...

[RevCheesehead]

4. Maybe they can just remove that vestigial heart of his...

since it's giving him some "discomfort."
'tis a shame the same couldn't be said about a conscience.

[teamster633]

5. Nixon was a piker compared to Cheney.

I'll leave it at that.

[Greybnk48]

6. Cheney makes Nixon look like a bush leaguer!

He'd eat Nixon for breakfast. I'm 61 and I've never seen anything in this country like this totally arrogant, evil prick. You are witnessing someone who will be infamous in American history.

[trusty elf]

13. ....

[Lint Head]

7. If he died he would be nothing more than a shit stain on history.

Exactly what he deserves.

[Bitwit1234]

8. I don't think Nixon was evil I think his problem was jealousy

he was so jealous of the Kennedy's (even after JFK had died) he couldn't think straight trying to outdo things JFK had done. Nixon had a very very good foreign policy. His domestic stunk tho.

[ashling]

12. Nixon's dirty tricks and lies go back way before 1960

[Kyril Enko]

9. Compared to Cheney...

...Nixon was Abe Lincoln!

[TexasObserver]

10. He's worse than Nixon.

Cheney has no compunctions at all.

[malaise]

11. No they are both cut

from the same cloth

[mwb970]

14. Agreed.

Nixon was a two-bit pol. cheney is the full deal, totally satanic and evil. And a sociopath. There has never been a more vile, evil person in power in America's history. He is truly the very worst that America has to offer. I'll be so glad when he is finally gone!

[spanone]

15. cheney makes nixon look like a choir boy

[LeftishBrit]

16. I will be sorry if he dies...

I will be sorry that he escaped being brought to justice for his crimes!

[indepat]

19. Likewise: I had hoped Reagan would live to see the extent of the harm he had wrought, but

Alzheimer's robbed him and us. Ronnie might have cared but DC gives the impression of not caring a shit how much disaster he has wrought on America, Americans, and the world making him, IMHO, the essence of quintessential evil incarnate. :D

[onecent]

17. He will meet his maker soon...and he will get what he deserves, The man is VILE! n/t

[PVnRT]

18. To paraphrase Hunter Thompson:

"If there were any justice in this world, Dick Cheney's rotting carcass would be in the belly of a hammerhead shark somewhere around Easter Island."

Thompson hated Nixon, yet would have happily supported him over Bush/Cheney.

[backscatter712]

20. I miss Hunter S. Thompson.

I'd loved to have to seen him give Darth Cheney the same kind of sendoff he gave to Richard Nixon...

http://www.counterpunch.org/thompson02212005.html

[driver8]

26. I agree with Hunter Thompson.

I absolutely despise that fucker Cheney. I probably hate him more than I hated Dubya, and that is saying something.

I did an internship in Washington, DC in 1985 and Cheney once gave a speech to our group. Too bad I didn't realize I was looking at the devil...

[Arkana]

21. Nixon had nothing on Cheney.

Some unknown mental illness and extreme paranoia combined with an almost crippling shyness made Nixon the way he was.

Cheney is just an unfeeling bastard. I'm surprised the man has heart problems--I was under the impression he didn't have one.

[mod mom]

23. Nixon is nothing compared to 3 generations of Bushes as well

maybe Nixon's paranoia was based on fear of the wrath of Prescott, mad that HW was over looked for the VP slot. "Family of Secrets" by Russ Baker gives an excellent perspective on this.

[Arkana]

24. No, from what I've read of Nixon, his paranoia goes WAY deeper than that.

It goes back to his college days, in fact--it got so bad that he and some of his friends at Duke actually broke into a professor's office to check their grades because they were going stir crazy waiting.

[mod mom]

25. His paranoia may have gone way back but that doesn't negate his distrust of the CIA:

from a Rawstory article by Russ Baker:

Watergate and the Future: News for 2009
Russ Baker
Published: Monday December 22, 2008

-snip

Simply put, once Nixon attained the presidency, he struggled for his independence, and began doing things that displeased his former sponsors.

I explored in particular a little-known matter called the Townhouse Affair. It turns out to be an important precursor to Watergate. Townhouse and Watergate both had earmarks of involvement by CIA figures.

And I looked at something that has barely emerged in public, but which was discussed by Nixon and his advisers: his ongoing struggle with the CIA. Combined with other evidence I developed of Poppy Bush's longstanding involvement with the CIA (back to the 1950s), it becomes apparent that there was more to Watergate than Richard Nixon's paranoia. There is not space here for all the particulars I lay out in Family of Secrets. But a few highlights:

*Townhouse appears in retrospect to be an elaborate effort to frame Nixon for financial wrongdoing, by orchestrating a ridiculously shady-looking fundraising operation (and purported political blackmail scheme) headquartered in a basement office in a D.C. townhouse. The people who conjured up and ran Townhouse were tied to Poppy Bush.

*Wealthy independent oilmen who backed Bush felt anger and distrust toward Nixon, who proved to be less than entirely reliable on their key issues, such as a tax giveaway called the Oil Depletion Allowance.

*Many figures in Nixon's White House had CIA ties, and appear to have been keeping an eye on him, even as they worked for him. (The role of the security services raises suggestive questions as a new president prepares to take office – namely, how free is any president to pursue the agenda he promised the voters? The ghosts of the Bushes and what they represent will hang over a new President Obama in ways we have never imagined.)

*Poppy Bush had extensive secret ties to the intelligence apparatus before he became CIA director in 1976. This connection has not previously been reported, and it provides an answer to a question that puzzled observers at the time – namely, what had Poppy Bush ever done to prepare him to lead the nation's premier spy agency?

After being named Republican national chairman, Poppy Bush used that position to monitor and help shape the unfolding Watergate affair.

*John Dean was much more than a whistleblower. It appears that he was aware of or even a key figure in the White House covert activities that brought Nixon down, yet encouraged Nixon to take the blame for them.

*There is evidence suggesting a connection between Poppy Bush and Dean. Records show that Bush actually called the then-obscure Dean from his UN office in New York during the earliest days of these events. Why would the UN ambassador be speaking to a White House counsel?

*The rookie reporter Bob Woodward began working at the Washington Post, and on Watergate in particular, with job recommendations from high officials in the White House who knew him from his days in Naval intelligence work.

*A handful of famous Watergate tape excerpts were misconstrued – or in some cases, misleadingly edited – by some in academic, media, legislative and judicial arenas to convey a false impression of what Richard Nixon actually knew – and of how culpable he was.

*Watergate special prosecutor Leon Jaworski, a key figure in the ousting of Nixon, was a close Texas friend of Poppy Bush – and steered clear of evidence that pointed to Poppy's involvement.

*Even the notion of "Deep Throat," purportedly Woodward's main source (identified as the recently-deceased FBI man W. Mark Felt), may have been part of a CIA-style "psyops" scheme to create the impression of Nixon's culpability. Some key figures claim that there was in fact no "Deep Throat" at all.

*Nixon suspected the CIA of surrounding him and then setting him up. From his own days supervising covert operations as vice president, he recognized that the Watergate burglars and their bosses were seasoned CIA hardliners with ties to the Bay of Pigs invasion and events linked to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Nixon battled the CIA for files on what he called the "Bay of Pigs thing," but never could get access to them.

In sum, I found that the very people who created Nixon and used him to advance their own political interests ended up destroying him. Nixon's famous paranoia, in other words, had a basis in reality.

-snip

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Watergate_and_Future_News_for_2009_1222.html

[Zomby Woof]

22. Death is inevitable

People still buy into the death taboo. "Oh no! You mustn't speak ill of Cheney because he may be dying! Don't wish for his death! That makes you a BAD BAD person!" Why should death give someone a free pass? If they were evil in life, they are evil in death. Hasn't history taught any of you anything?

The death taboo is Unmitigated Bullshit. Rooting for evil to be rid from the planet is GOOD. He needs to die, and the sooner the better. As for his family, fuck them too. They should have offed him years ago, but they missed their chance, and must be held accountable as evil enablers.

[Yurovsky]

29. Exactly... like the old hypothetical "would you kill baby Hitler if you had the chance"

goddamn right I would, and I'll tap dance on Cheney's fucking casket when that evil piece of shit kicks the basket (preferably with big red clown shoes on ... and then maybe urinate all over the pine box before I hop off, saying "ttttthat's all folks!!!!!!!!")

I COMMAND YOUR HEART TO EXPLODE!!! DIE EVIL DICK! DIE!!!

[troubledamerican]

27. Hey Dick -- pick yourself up by your BOOTSTRAPS you lazy F

[lonestarnot]

28. All USA would be missing would be one huberistic torture promoter.

Nope I will not even flinch when that fucker kicks the bucket.

[Umbral]

30. Naw, he kicks Nixon's ass, he gives J. Edgar Hoover competition for the title. nt

[Stinky The Clown]

31. Cheney is orders of magnitude worse than Nixon.

To this day I think Nixon and Johnson were both good presidents who could have been great were it not for each one's singular failings.

I have NOTHING good to say about Cheney.

[donheld]

32. Is it just me or do others kinda wish Cheney would have to suffer a bit?