This has been posted previously but it is something that should be re-cycled every six months or so due to its outstanding value. It shouldn’t really surprise anyone that Vice President Dick Cheney was one of the prime architects of the quagmire in Iraq–because he’s been a mastermind of failure throughout his entire life. Surely deserving of the nickname ‘Botchman,’ Cheney has been one consistently incompetent turkey (hey, it is Thanksgiving, after all) whether it be a political decision or private business concern. If you want to go down, call Dick Cheney, the nonpareil master of disaster. You’re NOT in good hands with Dick Cheney. Nobody is.
But don’t ask the D.C. press or many of those mainstream media people about this because they ‘apparently’ are blinded by the faux aura and hollow gravitas dispensed by Cheney. To them, he simply couldn’t be Dick the Deteriorator. He doesn’t ‘fit’ the image to them. So it just cannot be.
The Curse of Dick Cheney
The veep’s career has been marred by one disaster after another
T.D. ALLMAN
Rolling Stone
August 25, 2004
Should George W. Bush win this election, it will give him the distinction of being the first occupant of the White House to have survived naming Dick Cheney to a post in his administration. The Cheney jinx first manifested itself at the presidential level back in 1969, when Richard Nixon appointed him to his first job in the executive branch. It surfaced again in 1975, when Gerald Ford made Cheney his chief of staff and then — with Cheney’s help — lost the 1976 election. George H.W. Bush, having named Cheney secretary of defense, was defeated for re-election in 1992. The ever-canny Ronald Reagan was the only Republican president since Eisenhower who managed to serve two full terms. He is also the only one not to have appointed Dick Cheney to office.
This pattern of misplaced confidence in Cheney, followed by disastrous results, runs throughout his life — from his days as a dropout at Yale to the geopolitical chaos he has helped create in Baghdad. Once you get to know his history, the cycle becomes clear: First, Cheney impresses someone rich or powerful, who causes unearned wealth and power to be conferred on him. Then, when things go wrong, he blames others and moves on to a new situation even more advantageous to himself.
Read the rest of Cheney’s litany of destruction:
