Erik Prince Quitting Blackwater
Sorry I mean Xe – Murdering 17 civilians in a market square requires a rebranding
I’m surprised that this story hasn’t got more play. The Right Wing Christian Fundamentalist is resigning his post as Crusader-in-chief of possibly the most unethical company to ever exist in the history of the universe.
Prince possesses the standard issue right wing sense of victimhood that seems to be a genetic requirement of extreme wingers everywhere:
I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.’s disposal for some very risky missions. … But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus. … I’m an easy target.
Absolutely incredible and a worthy rival to the currently ongoing Palin Pity Tour.
I really hope that this signifies the beginning of the end for contracting out government thuggery, farming out the catering is one thing but the shooting people and blowing things up thing? -Not so much.
Time for the Cheney Rumsfeld version of the industrial military complex to be disbanded completely and without exception.
Categories: politics Tags: army, Blacwater, Cheney, contractors, Eric Prince, Rumsfeld, xe
Jon Meacham; Cheney Should Run
I Guess Jon Meacham’s readership
must be tanking and someone told him to say something controversial. This is probably the silliest bit of opinion journalism that I’ve seen in the last week and, believe me the competition is stiff.
Here are the introductory paragraphs:
Gallup is not asking about him in its prospective polling, and his daughter Liz’s recent Fox News Sunday allusion to a presidential run provoked good-natured laughter, as though the suggestion were just a one-liner. Float the hypothetical in political conversation, and people roll their eyes dismissively.
But I think we should be taking the possibility of a Dick Cheney bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 more seriously, for a run would be good for the Republicans and good for the country. (The sound you just heard in the background was liberal readers spitting out their lattes.)
And this isn’t a clever setup where the author reveals the punchline later in the article, Meacham is playing it straight. He has no problem with reducing America’s choice to sane middle ground vs Neocon war criminal. That is really no choice and would produce a de facto one party state. Cheney could never win it is that simple, the numbers have never been there for him personally or politically.
Categories: politics Tags: Cheney, Cheney president, Greenwald, Jon Meacham, watercooler journalism
Liz Cheney lies
The alternative reality show that is the postscript to the Bush / Cheney presidency continues.
I cannot even begin to imagine how hard it must be to deal with a reality where your father is about to become arguably the most notorious war criminal in American history. One way would be to go on TV and lie through your teeth. Apparently that is how Liz Cheney has chosen to deal.
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