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George Bush, Appeaser?

Barton Gellman reports that Dick Cheney is getting ready to say what he really thinks about George Bush.  Namely that Bush went soft on him:

The two men maintain respectful ties, speaking on the telephone now and then, though aides to both said they were never quite friends. But there is a sting in Cheney's critique, because he views concessions to public sentiment as moral weakness. After years of praising Bush as a man of resolve, Cheney now intimates that the former president turned out to be more like an ordinary politician in the end.

....The former vice president remains convinced of mortal dangers that few other leaders, in his view, face squarely. That fixed belief does much to explain the conduct that so many critics find baffling. He gives no weight, close associates said, to his low approval ratings, to the tradition of statesmanlike White House exits or to the grumbling of Republicans about his effect on the party brand.

John Hannah, Cheney's former national security advisor, says Cheney is still obsessed with the idea of terrorists getting hold of a nuke, but:

What is new, Hannah said, is Cheney's readiness to acknowledge "doubts about the main channels of American policy during the last few years," a period encompassing most of Bush's second term. "These are not small issues," Hannah said. "They cut to the very core of who Cheney is," and "he really feels he has an obligation" to save the country from danger.

I don't especially blame Cheney for being worried about terrorists getting their hands on a nuke, but it's too bad he was never willing to seriously think about what kind of foreign policy might make that least likely.  Judging from Gellman's piece, he never will.

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SCANDALS!

SPEAKING OF GEORGE W. BUSH:

SCANDALS! SCANDALS! SCANDALS!

DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!

GEORGE W. BUSH IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CRIMINAL STALKER AND SERIAL KILLER!

“In her suit, Margie Schoedinger states that George W. Bush committed sexual crimes against her, organized harassment and moral pressure on her, her family members and close relatives and friends. As Schoedinger said, she was strongly recommended to keep her mouth shut. . . . Furthermore, she alleges that George Bush ordered to show pressure on her to the point, when she commits suicide” (go to Google, type “blog of drizzten Margie Schoedinger,” and hit “Enter”).

“George [Bush is personally complicit] in the death (murder to be precise) of my friend Margie Schoedinger in September of 2003. Determining the exact whereabouts and contacts of . . . George Bush on September 21 thru 22, 2003, should be entirely lacking in difficulty” (Leola McConnell—Nevada Progressive Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010).

McConnell is correct: Bush applying pressure (continuously criminally stalking Margie Schoedinger) purposefully to force Schoedinger to commit suicide does in fact constitute murder where it culminated in her death.

Bush’s method of murdering Schoedinger cannot exist in a vacuum: he must have murdered other people in the same way.

During Bush’s presidency, of course Bush would have desired to kill people whom he hated or get them out of his way. Insofar as Bush was clearly capable of murdering Schoedinger—even in “broad daylight”—and is clearly capable of getting away with it, in consideration of common sense and the laws of human nature, Bush of course murdered numerous people in the disgusting way he murdered Schoedinger. One can examine public information; in various situations where people who sought to oppose or disadvantage Bush ever so frighteningly ended up “committing suicide”—specifically—Bush murdered them just like he murdered Schoedinger. For example, Bush murdered James Howard Hatfield by continuously criminally stalking Hatfield to the point that Hatfield could not get away from it—purposefully to force Hatfield to commit suicide—and Hatfield committed suicide in desperation to escape. However, the vast majority of such scandalous cases will never come out (the grisly details are typically hard to substantiate). A prosecutor really can lawfully charge a former president with murdering one or more people in the disgusting way Bush murdered Schoedinger. The American people unfortunately live in a world where evil presidents can murder any number of people—figuratively—with a wave of a magic wand and get away with it.

(There are thousands of copies of the information above on the Internet. Please feel free to go to any major search engine, type “GEORGE W. BUSH IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CRIMINAL STALKER AND SERIAL KILLER” or “George W. Bush continuously criminally stalked Margie Schoedinger to the point that she could not get away from it, and she committed suicide in desperation to escape: he murdered her” or “George W. Bush applying pressure (continuously criminally stalking Margie Schoedinger) purposefully to force Schoedinger to commit suicide does in fact constitute murder where it culminated in her death” or “George W. Bush murdered James Howard Hatfield by continuously criminally stalking Hatfield to the point that Hatfield could not get away from it—purposefully to force Hatfield to commit suicide—and Hatfield committed suicide in desperation to escape,” hit “Enter,” and readily find hundreds of copies.)

(Please feel free to go to Google, type “GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY blog of Andrew Wang,” and hit “Enter.”)
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Andrew Wang
(a.k.a. “THE DISSEMINATING MACHINE”)
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

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One wonders if Cheney's

One wonders if Cheney's chronic health problems didn't make him mean?

http://www.authorama.com/essays-of-francis-bacon-10.html

Deformed persons, and eunuchs, and old men, and bastards, are envious. For he that cannot possibly mend his own case, will do what he can, to impair another’s; except these defects light upon a very brave, and heroical nature, which thinketh to make his natural wants part of his honor; in that it should be said, that an eunuch, or a lame man, did such great matters; affecting the honor of a miracle; as it was in Narses the eunuch, and Agesilaus and Tamberlanes, that were lame men.

The same is the case of men, that rise after calamities and misfortunes. For they are as men fallen out with the times; and think other men’s harms, a redemption of their own sufferings.

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Latest Birfer? Obama's Press Secretary! Suck on that libtards!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Briefing-by-White-House-Press-Secretary-Robert-Gibbs-8/12/09/

"I can't tell you why somebody believes, despite all preponderance of the evidence, that the President was born here and not somewhere else."

The truth will out!!! ZOMG!

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dick cheney is a thug, and a

dick cheney is a thug, and a not very bright one at that. he has been pretty much wrong on every substantive issue of the past 35 years, and during his time in corporate life, he was a sucky ceo.

but the most amazing part of this is that he is so narcissistic that he doesn't seem to entertain the possibility that he might be wrong about anything. that takes some degree of psychological dysfunction after his track record of error.

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Yes, It Is A Damn Shame

he let bin Laden and Al Zawahiri escape in 2001 with a half-assed military effort.

And it is a shame he let Af-Pak slide into chaos, with the Taliban nearly taking over both countries, while wasting resources on Iraq.

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The central question of the

The central question of the Bush presidency might be what kind of president he would have been without Cheney. Would Bush have done as much damage to the country if Cheney was not VP or would Bush have been mediocre but harmless like his father? Maybe a better way to phrase the question is whether Bush's fatal error was in surrounding himself with the wrong people.

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Dick Cheney was running a

Dick Cheney was running a failing business before he outsmarted George W. Bush and took over the 2000 coup as vice president.

Dick Cheney engineered events to enrich himself and select co-conspirators at the expense of the rest of the country and the world.

Dick Cheney left government disgraced but rich.

Dick Cheney still wants more.

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I would think that Cheney's

I would think that Cheney's mean and authoritarian outlook made him ill, not the other way around. By all accounts he was a healthy and sprightly youth. albeit a draft-dodger (obviously he was already dishonest and untrustworthy as a youth).

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Andrew Wang...

There is no doubt that George W Bush was the worst president in our history, but a murderer? Constant stalking? Um, I don't think so.

TLM

Show a little sympathy...

... for Cheney. He's a tortured man.

911 was the greatest national security failure in the history of the country, rivaled only by Pearl Harbor. Our leaders let us down and over 3000 Americans died. And who was in charge of domestic terrorism on 9/11? Dick Cheney. Bush gave Cheney two portfolios at the start of his administration, energy and terrorism. Cheney spent the months leading up to 9/11 meeting in secret with energy executives while ignoring terrorism. But all of his extreme efforts since then can't wipe out the fact he has the blood of thousands on his hands.

Trippp

If I was reading all this a

If I was reading all this a hundred years from now I'd actually have some pity for W.

Since I lived through his presidency, and I took flack from his lackeys, and I will be paying for this for a long time, I have no pity for W, even though his wife has left him, his posse are turning on him, and the only people left supporting him are fearful nuts.

Tripp

DICKERSON3870

"Pricky Dick" Cheney

"Pricky Dick" Cheney is living proof that there is no God. Intelligent design, my ass!

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cheney's mea culpa

cheney is a throwback to the big stick policy and in reality he destroyed the constitution,he must be indicted and prosecuted because he really is anti-human and a disgrace!!!

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Bush better than meets the eye

It is amazing, and horrifying, to realize that Bush was the sane
one in his administration.

That Bush was the one that stopped us from bombing Iran.

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Cheney!

[italic] he views concessions to public sentiment as moral weakness. [/italic]

The man just fundamentally does not believe in representative government. Public sentiment=your constituents, you bastard.

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