OK, so it appears that Dick Cheney is letting it be known rather publicly that he thought George Bush ended up going soft on him in the second term – Bush bitched out and sold out, and all the rest.
But consider this: By the time Cheney grew disenchanted with his protege, Bush had already started two wars against the dirty Moslem horde, deployed a mercenary army with a twisted religious sadism, authorized widespread torture, sanctioned indefinite detention and kidnapping, implemented a program for illegal wiretaps/surveillance of US citizens, signed-off on illegal settlement expansion in the occupied lands, endorsed an Israeli invasion of Lebanon, supported Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia, stoked a bloody (if unsuccessful) coup to topple Hamas in Gaza, and numerous other atrocities to warm the defective heart of Dick Cheney.
So the question is what, exactly, did Bush refuse to do that led to this increasingly messy divorce?
If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say the denizens of Tehran don’t know how close they came to being just another horrific panorama of death brought to you by Bush/Cheney productions. I mean, the only thing standing between them and a rampaging, trigger happy sociopath was a dry drunk’s ability to say no.
And for denying him the opportunity to create yet another mountainous pile of corpses, Cheney aims to make him pay. At least, that’s my guess.
August 13, 2009 at 11:19 am
Seems reasonable. Your guess, I mean; whatever Cheney couldn’t get Shrub to do had to have been something he really, really wanted.
Perhaps he needs a constant supply of newly-spilt blood to keep that bioengineered so-called heart of his going, and for him it is dusky people blood that provides best thrill.
August 13, 2009 at 11:52 am
But consider this: By the time Cheney grew disenchanted with his protege, Bush had already started two wars against the dirty Moslem horde, deployed a mercenary army with a twisted religious sadism, authorized widespread torture, sanctioned indefinite detention and kidnapping, implemented a program for illegal wiretaps/surveillance of US citizens, signed-off on illegal settlement expansion in the occupied lands, endorsed an Israeli invasion of Lebanon, supported Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia, stoked a bloody (if unsuccessful) coup to topple Hamas in Gaza, and numerous other atrocities to warm the defective heart of Dick Cheney.
You say that like they’re bad things.
Actually it was that Boosh pussed out on a complete pardon of Scooter for taking the heat for Dick.
August 13, 2009 at 11:54 am
I feel you mis-characterize Darth Cheny. He’s not in it for the bloodshed; that’s just a bonus. He’s in it for the money, the money that flows from government accounts into defense contractor’s coffers.
August 13, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I think you have hit the nail on the noggin.
That was the big one. The one the oilmen were really itching for.
Well done. You’ve earned yourself some porn time. Enjoy!
August 13, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Yay, porn time!
August 13, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Hey, it’s on me. Send me the bill. Enjoy, kiddo. (Just no kiddies or crips.)
August 13, 2009 at 12:47 pm
A turd in the hand are worth two Dicks in a Bush but if ever return our Keyboards Kommando, I should thrill to see them work the theme of the post -administrative battles of Bush with Dick and Dick with Bush.
I think Dick is pissed that Bush won’t let him hunt grouse at Crawford. Or dress up as Mussolini and ride Bush’s wonderhorse, Neil.
Dick Cheney, the guy who put the Off! in “You kids get offa my lawn or get offed!”
It’s terrible when the ass, whose bung held your turducken marioneteer head in good faith, ejects you with insufficient gratitude for all the benevolently parasitic cleaning you provided for his wimpy little guts.
August 13, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Seriously: skip the snarl and check out his eyes. There’s a guy who misses the good old days of virgin blood sacrifice and a bit of long pig at the round table.
August 13, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Meatloaf forever.
August 13, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Well, not invading or at least bombing Iran is a big sore point for Cheney. But there are others, I’m sure. Ol’ Dick undoubtedly wanted stronger measures against citizens who were not patriotic enough (as in, worshipful enough of himself and Bush). The evident glee in Cheney’s eyes as the Secret Service hauled away the guy in Louisiana who told Dick to fuck himself shows his delight in shutting up the citizenry.
And Dick’s other pet project of dispatching assassination squads was no doubt seriously impeded by Bush refusing to authorize their work within the U.S.
And, finally, there was Bush’s refusal or inability to intervene in all sorts of matters from Scooter’s prosecution to the Inspector General reports on just how shitty and corrupt Haliburton was (and is).
August 13, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Cheney didn’t get to deploy a nuke. He built some but Bush deprived him of the joy to see it lit up.
Unforgivable
August 13, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Ehhhhh – I can’t help but see this as a part of the “rehabilitation of W” propaganda effort. They’d like to paint Bush as a marvel of restraint and humanity, the principled cowpoke whose stubborn will and basic goodness kept the excesses of his own administration from becoming too great. See, for another example, the Yoo memos, which will also be presented as Bush bravely putting the kibosh on neocon zealotry.
And Cheney, cynical rat that he is, will chuckle gamely and play right along, mugging on talk shows for all he’s worth. Because at the end of the day, the neocons are still making money off the Middle East, and we’re still torturing people, and if Bush’s legacy gets redeemed, none of that changes.
August 13, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Agreed
It seems we can never be cynical enough with this fuckers
August 13, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Fuck Cheney. Space is the place.
August 13, 2009 at 4:43 pm
In space, nobody is going to euthanize you when you’re old.
August 13, 2009 at 10:15 pm
As with so many right-wing schemes, there’s no single object, but, rather, a multiplicity of them.
Of course, getting and keeping power to make all the rest work, is primary, and that just might be one of Cheney’s complaints, thinly disguised–”Bush went soft on me and we’re out of power because of that.” Far be it for Cheney to admit that his exercise of that power–often only for the sake of exercising it, his need to prove to all the Villagers that he did, indeed, have the biggest dick of them all–is the reason for them being on the outs.
Cheney is simply behaving like every other Republican in modern history. He simply can’t admit that he pretty much fucked up on a global scale. Republican tradition requires him to blame his mistakes on someone else, and Bush is a good target–everyone already hates the miserable little prick.
August 14, 2009 at 6:20 am
Oh. I think Bush really DID keep Cheney in check. Compared to Cheney, Bush IS a marvel of restraint. No grand scheme. Just the facts.
Bush is a uniquely unqualified former president. Cheney is a lifelong extremist.
August 14, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Um, we believe a single word Dick Cheney ever said because why now?
August 15, 2009 at 9:11 am
Define “believe.”
Do I believe he’s not pleased with Bush? Plausible enough.
Do I believe he will be entirely honest as to the reasons? Hell no.
Do I believe that Cheney was more fucked up than Bush in terms of his preferred policies? Actually, yes. And if you read any of the decent insider accounts – from Ron Suskind, Bart Gellman, Jane Mayer, etc – that supposition is confirmed over and over again.
So what, exactly, is it that Dick Cheney is saying that I’m not supposed to be believing in the current context where the one take away is that he’s not happy with the way Bush didn’t go far enough along Cheney’s preferred path?
August 15, 2009 at 5:15 pm
“So the question is what, exactly, did Bush refuse to do that led to this increasingly messy divorce? ”
The rusty trombone.