THE MAJOR PREACHER OF DIVISIVENESS IN OUR COUNTRY!

Dick Cheney

It is tragic that many of the candidates for public office are too young to remember what it felt like to be united against a common enemy in time of war and be proud of our own country.  We lost that during the Viet Nam War and never regained it, only to lose it more acutely under the Bush-Cheney administration.  Apparently the man who as Vice-President, Cheney, has written a book, claiming that heads will explode in Washington when it is read.  Truth does not usually explode people's heads so I wonder just what he has written.  His narcissism seems present when he says his book makes no apologies for any of the illegal positions he took during his tenure in office.


He writes: In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir  Next to it on the Amazon page is:  Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President by Stephen F. Hayes.

John Nichols wrote: Dick: The Man Who is President (Dick Cheney.  There were many books about the controversial man acting as President though not elected to that office, simply because the elected President was too weak to stop him.  That inability to stop Cheney will forever be borne as a negative to the GW Bush presidential history.

In a recent NY Times article by Charlie Savage, he writes that Cheney had urged Bush to bomb Syria in 2007  Click here to read the article.  The article quotes: 

“I again made the case for U.S. military action against the reactor,” Mr. Cheney wrote about a meeting on the issue. “But I was a lone voice. After I finished, the president asked, ‘Does anyone here agree with the vice president?’ Not a single hand went up around the room.”

For one, I will not bother to read his book as it would be against my integrity to give the man money for the terrible things he did to this country.  I know that the media, both TV and print, will review it more than sufficiently for me to know and confirm my opinion that he should be prosecuted for what he did to damage the image of our country.  However, since he can't travel to Europe for fear of prosecution for his war crimes, I clearly do not stand alone in this opinion.