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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
n less discussed than the ongoing costs of the war are the opportunity costs -- the many things we might have spent that money on instead. In 2010, Bilmes and Stiglitz wrote that not only was their $3 trillion estimate of the war's cost too low, but so was their estimation of the opportunity costs: The
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
n less discussed than the ongoing costs of the war are the opportunity costs -- the many things we might have spent that money on instead. In 2010, Bilmes and Stiglitz wrote that not only was their $3 trillion estimate of the war's cost too low, but so was their estimation of the opportunity costs: Th
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)-
ef executive safely can turn over to former campaign aides piunping up their resumes with govenunent jobs. If anyone shrank Mr Stigiitts and Ms. Bilmes 38-page paper to the president's attention span, he woukl notice a few things. The CI3O, using that 2015 date, estimated the full cost at $500 bi
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