Tag Archives: Dick Cheney

Another reason to vote against HRC

April 27, 2016 · by · in campaign 2016, election 2016, History, peace protesters, Protests, war crimes · Leave a comment

This meme has gotten a real workout over the past few weeks as a Hillary talking point. The implication is that if the Senate won’t confirm Obama’s pick for SCOTUS as a replacement for Antonin Scalia, we should all vote for HRC because she’ll put Obama in the position. *sigh* One of the problems I […]

Speaking Ill of the Dead

February 20, 2016 · by · in campaign 2016, History, Police and policing, Protests, tax policy for the 99%, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

SCOTUS judge Antonin Scalia passed away last week while on a vacation trip in Texas. His holiday was a freebie from a certain John Pointexter, who (not coincidentally) had business before the Supreme Court. It appears to be a canned quail hunting experience that brought Scalia to the resort. If memory serves, that’s the sort […]

You read it here first–W is a war criminal

January 26, 2015 · by · in peace protesters, Protests, war crimes · Leave a comment

http://George-W-Bush.jpg A group in Germany has crossed the Rubicon and formally filed a criminal complaint against the architects of the Bush Torture program: The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights has filed a criminal complaint against U.S. torture program architects and members of the Bush Administration.  The charges follow the long-delayed release of the Senate Report on […]

Back to the future in Iraq

June 14, 2014 · by · in History, Protests, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

The above clip is then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney explaining why we didn’t invade Iraq and depose Saddam after the Gulf War. The time is 1992 on the eve of the election that would sweep Poppy Bush from the White House. He also told the BBC in this interview: Once you got to Iraq and […]

Don’t know much about history: Waterboarding is torture

March 31, 2013 · by · in Don't know much about..., History, Protests · Leave a comment

My ire is piqued today by this report out of the Washington Post. In 2005, a woman working in a senior capacity for CIA Clandestine Operations took it upon herself to sign off on the destruction of videotape the agency had made of what critics have described as ‘torture’. It almost certainly includes waterboarding. That […]

Sh*t (some)Republicans believe (updated)

January 27, 2013 · by · in Don't know much about..., economics, History, Protests, war crimes · Leave a comment

This is an updated list. I originally put it up last September, just after the conventions, when the Presidential campaign began in earnest. I’ve updated it somewhat, but this seems to cover the subject pretty nicely. This list probably seems patently unfair to Republicans, and (to be fair) not all Republicans believe everything on this […]

It’s official–George W Bush is a War Criminal

October 24, 2012 · by · in Uncategorized · Leave a comment

In Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, George W Bush was convicted of war crimes in absentia last May. Funny it didn’t receive much official press, though some progressive websites reported it. I found out about it because CNN has a feature called “I report” and someone had posted it there. Perhaps the rest of the news media […]