The Truth Comes Out — Cheney is a Monster

Story by Chamay0 — Chamay0 Bias Opinion, Tom — The Internet Post, and Guest Blogger:  Mike Davis

Well we’ve known all this time that the rhetoric Bush used to lead up to the Iraq war were lies. There is also Cheney, who we all knew, was the real orchestrator of the Iraq war.  But that knowledge pales in the face of the disinformation given by mainstream media; which has confused and grayed the truth on all fronts.  The media has made it harder for both  those who wanted to believe in this administration and those that knew the administration was lying.

Thankfully, there is Cheney, who in his complete arrogance believes he is justified in everything he has done.  Where the media has fell a sleep in performing their job, good old monster Cheney has made sure we were set straight.

Let’s take a moment to reflect on some of the information the media failed to report at least truthfully:

• The information given out over the media to scare us and help start the war was knowingly false as the following article proves and highlights how the media has been consistently a sleep in regards to the Iraq war.  In deed, the media continues to be a sleep in regard to Bush and his lack of governing during our current economic crisis.
  

A new congressional report is belatedly confirming what many have long known: that the White House and in particular then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, lied to Congress in 2004 when he told them the Bush administration was not repeatedly warned by the CIA not to make the claim that Saddam had tried to buy uranium ore from Niger.

What is astonishing about this report, which documents that the CIA at least four times tried to prevent Bush and other top officials from presenting that lie to Congress and the American public in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, is not that it documents what has long been known, but that Congress and the corporate media are still pretending that the claim itself was an acceptable justification for launching a war.

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Consider that what was being asserted was that Iraq had attempted (not even succeeded!) to buy 400 tons of uranium ore. This claim was used by President Bush, in his Jan. 20, 2003 State of the Union address, to argue that Iraq had a nuclear weapons program. But in the case of a country that does not have a nuclear weapon, a program is years away, perhaps a decade or more away, from the reality of having a usable weapon.

Yet Bush was claiming that there was an imminent threat to America posed by Saddam Hussein’s yellowcake purchase effort, and that an invasion had to be launched almost immediately. He used the term imminent because that is the legal requirement in the UN Charter, to which the US is a signatory and which is based upon the Nuremberg Charter established at the end of the Second World War. It states that no nation may invade another nation unless that nation poses an imminent threat to the would-be invader. [Read the full story here]

• Cheney’s involvement in the war was also played down by the media, as well as his dealing with Halliburton.  Amazingly, Cheney’s dealings  were either misreported, scale back or not reported.   To say dealings with Halliburton, by our current administration, should have been considered a conflict of interest is an understatement.
  

Vice President Dick Cheney arrives at George Washington University Hospital on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008, in Washington. Cheney’s fortunes really ballooned in the heat of the Iraq conflict in 2004 when his 433,333 Halliburton options soared in value from $US241,498 to more than $US8 million in 2005. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)Cheney had been chairman and CEO of the oil services and construction giant Halliburton from 1995 to August 2000 when he signed up with George W Bush’s election campaign. Halliburton stands to benefit every time an oil pipeline is blown up in Iraq or a meal is handed out to the troops, and Cheney still has stock options in the company. [Read the full story here]

• Yet the media found no such problem of not reporting Cheney’s duplicity.  It is public knowledge that prior to becoming the VP, Dick Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton.  It took Sen. Leahy for Cheney to let us know how he really feels.  He told Leahy to go f__k his self .

Cheney, who as president of the Senate was present for the picture day, turned to Leahy and scolded the senator over his recent criticism of the vice president for Halliburton’s alleged war profiteering.

Cheney is the former CEO of Halliburton, and Democrats have suggested that while serving in the Bush administration he helped win lucrative contracts for his former firm, including a no-bid contract to rebuild Iraq. [Read the full story here]

• There are those that say Cheney’s gives all his proceeds from Halliburton to charity. Please note such claims by Cheney’s defenders really defies common sense and logic.  It is public knowledge that corruption has been pervasive with Halliburton contracts.  Yet, the media, time and time again, failed to make any connections to Cheney, irregardless of his substantive financial gains.
  

A former colleague of the US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, has pleaded guilty to funnelling millions of dollars in bribes to win lucrative contracts in Nigeria for Halliburton, during the period in the Nineties when Mr Cheney ran the giant oil and gas services company.

Albert Stanley, who was appointed by Mr Cheney as chief executive of Halliburton’s subsidiary KBR, admitted using a north London lawyer to channel payments to Nigerian officials as part of a bribery scheme that landed some $6bn of work in the country over a decade. [Read the full story here]

• Valerie Plame’s outing was done on purpose by the Bush administration to get back at her husband Joe Wilson for telling the truth about the yellowcake story from Niger.

Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a still-highly confidential FBI report, admitted to federal investigators that he rewrote talking points for the press in July 2003 that made it much more likely that the role of then-covert CIA-officer Valerie Plame in sending her husband on a CIA-sponsored mission to Africa would come to light.

Cheney conceded during his interview with federal investigators that in drawing attention to Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s Africa trip reporters might also unmask her role as CIA officer.

Cheney denied to the investigators, however, that he had done anything on purpose that would lead to the outing of Plame as a covert CIA operative. But the investigators came away from their interview with Cheney believing that he had not given them a plausible explanation as to how he could focus attention on Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s trip without her CIA status also possibly publicly exposed.

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Cheney revised the talking points on July 8, 2003– the very same day that his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, met with New York Times reporter Judith Miller and told Miller that Plame was a CIA officer and that Plame had also played a central role in sending her husband on his CIA sponsored trip to the African nation of Niger. [Read the full story here]

So now that we have the admissions on record, when will mainstream media start telling us the truth?