Sympathy for Dick Cheney

by David Swanson

See entire essay at: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/14277

EXCERPT: ...imagine if we were to hold impeachment hearings that
meticulously laid before the public the lead role Cheney played in
fabricating a false case for attacking Iraq. Americans admire a strong
work ethic, and Cheney worked very long hours for many months without a
break, relentlessly badgering the CIA, the Pentagon, Congress, and the
media. And we put him to all that trouble because of our predictable
failure to understand the need to attack Iraq for the reasons Cheney and
his friends had so straightforwardly presented in the papers of the
Project for a New American Century. If we had supported the real
reasons, Cheney would never have had to go to all that trouble to invent
fake ones. Now guilt may begin to set in, which will only add to the
sympathy we feel for Dick Cheney.

And, remember that when certain busybodies exposed some of Cheney's
laboriously constructed lies, he was forced to go to even more trouble
to destroy their careers or expose their wives as secret agents. Do you
think that was pleasant? Do you think Cheney enjoyed exposing a CIA
agent? This is the same man who is presently constructing a
multi-million dollar house in Virginia just a few minutes' walk from CIA
headquarters. Don't you think he'd prefer to get along with the
neighbors and not have been caused all that grief? Imagine the
sympathetic figure Dick Cheney might become if impeachment hearings
examined where he obtained his millions of dollars, profiting from a
company to which he directed no-bid contracts for the work of pretending
to reconstruct a country he had just destroyed.