Epstein Secrets

portant to understand how and what happen and most of all why America is becoming more and more a police state, which is the real lasting legacy of Dick Cheney. David Brooks wrote an interesting op-ed this week in the New York Times — The Brutality Cascade - using the metaphor of how the pervasive use of s

g in the World Dick Cheney Made - as it is a cautionary tale of unchecked zealotry in action and how deep conviction can also take down a democracy. Cheney at his height, had virtually unchecked power to rain destruction on other nations and who drove the creation of the military- diplomatic world in wh

h for accountability. Then, of course, there was Vice President Cheney: "We do know, with absolute certainty, that (Sad

ion. Clearly a triumph of forgetting. "It's really the decision of how to pay for it that has had such a negative effect on the U.S. economy," said Linda Bilmes, lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and co- author, along with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, of The Three Trillion D

h for accountability. Then, of course, there was Vice President Cheney: "We do know, with absolute certainty, that [Sad

as we approach March 20, the 10th anniversary of one of the biggest disasters in the history of the United States. That was the day George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and a team of others -- along with much of Washington and a very complicit mainstream media -- took the nation to war against Iraq. The devastating

ot happened: After Iraq, there has been a weird amnesty and amnesia about people's misjudgment on the most consequential decision of our times. ... Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bremer, Rice, McCain, Abrams, and others including the pro-war press claque are still offering their judgments unfazed. He co

on. Clearly a triumph of forgetting. "It's really the decision of how to pay for it that has had such a negative effect on the U.S. economy," said Linda Bilmes, lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and co-author, along with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, of The Three Trillion D

ational Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, Sen. Lieberman's loss means "defeat- ism and isolation are now Democratic Party orthodoxy" Vice President Dick Cheney even suggested that Sen. Liebt•rman's defeat might en- courage "Al-C./atria types." according to The New )irk Times. Al-Qaeda types? They've been

Iraq's breakdown: and a dispropor- tionate Israeli response to Hezbollah in Lebanon. The mujahedetin couldn't care less about Connecticut. But Mr. Cheney and his ilk con- tinue to beat the war drum because it worked before. In 2002, then-US. Rep. Saxby Chambliss. RCa.. defeated Sen. Max Cleland, 1)-

ec. 30, and continues to climb. Where do those higher numbers come from? Front a fascinating paper by Nobel Prize economist Jo- seph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes. who specializes in budget analysis. -The Economic Costs of the Iraq War" can be accessed at www.nberorg/ papers/w120S4 and is written in ordina