Cheney's Legacy of Deception
Tuesday 23 December 2008
by: Robert Scheer, Truthdig
http://www.truthout.org/122508B
In the end, the shame of Vice President Dick Cheney was total:
unmitigated by any notion of a graceful departure, let alone the slightest
obligation of honest accounting. Although firmly ensconced, even in the
popular imagination, as an example of evil incarnate - nearly a quarter of
those polled in this week's CNN poll rated him the worst vice president in
U.S. history, and 41 percent as "poor" - Cheney exudes the confidence of
one fully convinced that he will get away with it all.
And why not? Nothing, not his suspect role in the Enron debacle, which
foretold the economic meltdown, or his office's fabrication of the false
reasons for invading Iraq, has ever been seriously investigated, because of
White House stonewalling. Nor will the new president, committed as he is to
nonpartisanship, be likely to open up Cheney's can of worms.
