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Archives: Richard Bruce Cheney

Can’t get Fooled Again: Trump Appointees make him look like Bush 2.0

Via Otherwords.org By Peter Certo | (Otherwords.org) | - - The president once distanced himself from the Bush legacy. Now he's brought back the architects of its darkest moments. Political reporters have…

Trump declines to Sanction Russia, Spurring Speculation about Putin Hold

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Trump administration has refused to implement new sanctions on the Russian defense sector, as mandated by Congress's “Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions…

What if the US never fell for al-Qaeda’s trap & avoided ‘War on Terror’?

By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - “Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.” -- Thucydides You’ve heard the platitude that hindsight is 20/20. It’s true enough and,…

Giraldi Controversy: No, US wars in Mideast are not for Israel Lobby

By Ian Berman* | (Informed Comment) | - - CIA Veteran Philip Giraldi kicked off a firestorm with his article, “America’s Jews are Driving America’s Wars.” A man of considerable experience with…

Did David Brooks & the NeoCons pave the Way for Trump?

By Andrew J. Bacevich | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Apart from being a police officer, firefighter, or soldier engaged in one of this nation’s endless wars, writing a column for…

Top 4 Ways Bush even more Outrageously Dissed the Intelligence Community

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency counter-terrorist center and FBI National Security Branch, has been on CNN maintaining that…

Iraq: Bush DoD paid PR Firm millions to Plant fake I.S. Videos, False Stories

By Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith | ( The Bureau of Investigative Journalism ) | - - The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run…

The other Casualty of Iraq War: The Country’s Whole Health System

Ahmed Aber | (The Conversation) | - - Thirteen years ago, American and British troops launched Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Iraqis were promised freedom from tyranny, but the subsequent destruction of the…

Not al-Qaeda: Abu Zubayda as Bush’s Mengele Experiment

By Rebecca Gordon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Intro: Rebecca Gordon catches the nightmarish quality of those [Bush] years, now largely buried, in the grim case of a single mistreated human…

The Iraq War Never Ended: An Interview with Anand Gopal

By Charles Davis | ( TeleSur | - - The U.S. is at war with the same extremist group it claimed to have defeated five years ago, and it’s relying on sectarian…

One Reason the GOP Bigwigs hate Trump: He told the truth about Bush WMD Lies

By Brian Glyn Williams | (Informed Comment) | - - Recently Donald Trump broke with Republican convention and roiled the party base by boldly stating “You call it whatever you want. I…

How Bush-Cheneyism made Mideast in its Image: Wars, WOT, With us or Against Us

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Thirteen years after the illegal US invasion of Iraq, it is worth considering its full impact on this country and on the region.…

Bush Sr. Blames Neocons for Ruining W.’s Presidency: Is he Warning Jeb?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In interviews given for a new biography, George H. W. Bush, 91 lets loose against Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, whom he clearly…

With Ahmad Chalabi’s Death, Passing of an Age of Lies

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Ahmad Chalabi (1944-2015) died of a heart attack in Iraq on Tuesday. Clarence Darrow, the great trial lawyer and orator, said, "I’ve never…

Yes, George W. Bush bears some Responsibility for US Vulnerability on 9/11

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Donald Trump-Jeb Bush tiff over whether George W. Bush "kept us safe" is another example of how Donald Trump is better than…

How Bush/Cheney’s War Plans delayed an Iran Deal for a Decade

By Farhang Jahanpour | (Inter Press Service) | - - OXFORD (IPS) - When negotiations between Iran and the European “Troika” broke down, the reformist government of Mohammad Khatami was discredited in…

Why Dick Cheney is just as wrong about Iran as he was about Iraq

By William Beeman | (Informed Comment) | - - There are so many lies in Dick Cheney's address to the AEI that one hardly knows where to begin in refuting them. He…

Memo to Jeb Bush: It was W’s Surge that created ISIL, not Hillary

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Jeb Bush very unwisely went after Hillary Clinton last night on the grounds that her Iraq policies gave us Daesh (ISIS, ISIL). Bush…

2007: Progress Continues in Ramadi, Mullen Notes During Visit

Just to show Iraq's ups and downs, here is a celebratory article from the US Department of Defense about the apparent rollback in Ramadi of al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia (the parent organization of…

Did Jeb Bush just commit a War Crime in Justifying the Iraq War?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | -- Jeb Bush's people are trying to walk back his disastrous interview with Megyn Kelly in which he said that even if he knew then…