Re: LOST: Dick Cheney's Brain

Ho Lee Kow wrote:
A sad but true story from pp. 69-70 of "The End of Iraq" by Peter W. Galbraith:

"As Cheney put it in an interview he gave after leaving office in 1993, 'Now you can say, well, you should have gone to Baghdad and gotten Saddam, I don't think so. I think if we had done that we would have been bogged down there for a very long period of time with the real possibility we might not have succeeded'."

Dick, Dick, Dick---you were exactly right in your 1993 statement, almost psychic, as a matter of fact.

How did you manage to lose your brains between 1993 and 2003?

Looks like "Dead-Eye" Dick's memory isn't much better than his aim!

Too bad the Dickster isn't the only one with a bad memory.

Brown and Root had the contracts to build airfields, bases and hospitals in South Vietnam.

From "The Man Who Ran the Moon" (biography of James Webb, head of NASA), by Piers Bizony, p. 49:

"In August 1966 a certain young Republican senator from Illinois was outspokenly critical of this cronyism [with Brown and Root]. 'Why such a huge contract has not been, and is not now being, adequately audited is beyond me. The potential for waste and profiteering is substantial'. In 1967 the General Accounting Office identified massive financial improprieties, and disappearences of huge amounts of its war materiel. American GIs in Vietnam nicknamed the company Burn & Loot. By the dawn of the 21st century it [Brown & Root] had become part of the Halliburton group, and Donald Rumsfeld from Illinois was no longer so critical of its construction projects in theaters of war."

So, the Dickster AND Rummy both sold their souls to the Devil.
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