Bottom Left Politics

Dick Cheney reminds me of Jason Voorhees…or Michael Myers, perhaps.  No matter how long he’s “dead” to the country – and, thanks to our pathetic mainstream media that keeps pandering to this murderous tyrant, that’s usually not very long – he just keeps coming back, more laughable than ever.  Just when you thought you’ve seen the last of Cheney, he’ll be plastered all over CNN the next day.

He only comes out of his lair, though, when we start talking about torture.  Could it be that he’s worried?  Nah, surely he knows that the Obama Administration has no intention of prosecuting him for his war crimes.  It makes me wonder why he keeps opening his mouth when, really, he should be cowering in a dark corner somewhere, hoping against hope that the law doesn’t catch up to him.  But, like I said, he must know that the Obama Administration isn’t going to pursue justice, so he feels more than free to taunt us on television and in released statements, daring us to do something about it.  This time, what got Cheney’s attention and took him away from his regular activity (mutilating puppies and eating their mangled remains raw) was the Monday release of the much-anticipated CIA Inspector-General report that outlines (gasp, horror) more torture and abuse perpetrated by the death machine otherwise known as the CIA, as well as the announcement that John Durham would be appointed to investigate the possibility (possibility?  Really?) of CIA wrongdoing.

Well, first of all, most of us – here in the universe of sanity and logic – understand that this is an important first step.  It’s nowhere close to what needs to be carried out, which is a full investigation and likely prosecution of crimes committed by upper-level Bush Administration officials (which Holder apparently does not want), but it’s a very important step in the right direction, and we’re certainly grateful for that.  While we’re investigating the CIA, perhaps we should also investigate the reality that the CIA is responsible for much worse than threatening to sexually assault a detainee’s mother or firing a gun in another room – like annihilating villages, slaughtering children, overthrowing legitimate governments, destabilizing currencies, and the list goes on and on until one is ready to vomit blood.  But, of course, that can never happen, at least not in this “democracy.”  So I’ll take what I can get.  But I’m not satisfied.  This investigation might result in some prosecutions (if we’re lucky), but the blood-soaked despots in the Bush Administration likely won’t be so much as sniffed around, much less investigated.

So what is Dick Cheney so uptight about?  Jeebus only knows.  He has released a statement (as if we all give so much of a shit over what he has to say that he feels compelled to release statements) saying that the recent series of events fuels “doubts about this administration’s ability to be responsible for our nation’s security.”  Son of a bitch.  But wait, there’s more:

The people involved deserve our gratitude.  They do not deserve to be the targets of political investigations or prosecutions.

That’s right.  The people involved – i.e., the animals who got off on torturing and killing detainees, many (probably most) of whom were completely innocent of any wrongdoing – deserve our gratitude.  Got that?  They do not deserve to be the targets of…here’s the kicker…political investigations or prosecutions.  Because, obviously, this has nothing to do with the fact that our own CIA committed war crimes on a gargantuan scale, murdered people, spat upon the rule of law, and denigrated the reputation (if it was possible) of the United States.  Obviously, this is a political witch hunt by the Marxist, Muslim Obama Administration that targets the God-fearing Bush Administration defenders of freedom and democracy.

And he went on to spout his usual bullshit about how the “intelligence” gathered from these harsh interrogation methods thwarted terrorists and saved lives.  You know the drill.

Dick Cheney has to be loving this.  He can defend war crimes, claim responsibility for those war crimes, and even insult the Obama Administration – the same administration that is sparing this filthy bastard from criminal prosecution.  And the Obama Administration won’t do a goddamned thing about it.  He’s got it made in the shade.  I have to wonder why.

The blogger, Kristofer Paul, can be reached at bottomleftpolitics@yahoo.com.