It seems incredible that war criminal, war profiteer, and draft dodger Dick Cheney should be making his latest plea-for-war exhortation on the anniversary to-the-day of his nefarious let’s-get-our-war pitch thirteen years ago. And we know how that turned out.
The only reason this man has retained a shred of credibility is because of the “mainstream” media’s full court attempt to legitimize him. After years of lying to the American public, years of sowing catastrophe at home and abroad, while ensuring that his company profits from same, it nevertheless defies belief that he can be given a platform to pull out his old flask of lethal snake oil.
On September 8, 2002 I was driving to New Haven to do some research at the Beinecke library at Yale. I can still hear that scoundrel’s voice on the car radio. Let’s sit back a moment and think about all the Americans and Iraquis who were alive on that day and no longer are–because of this deplorable excuse for a leader.