{"id":1087,"date":"2007-08-23T11:25:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T11:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/why-rove-and-cheney-really-are-that-bad\/1087\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T11:25:32","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T11:25:32","slug":"why-rove-and-cheney-really-are-that-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/why-rove-and-cheney-really-are-that-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Rove and Cheney Really Are That Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Don Williams<\/a><\/p>\n

Remember Scott Ritter, the US arms inspector and military man accused of being a traitor and much worse for reporting there were no WMDs in Iraq before we bombed, invaded and occupied? He knows a thing or six about \u201cfacts\u201d and the media and exploitation and personal attacks. I don\u2019t believe Ritter\u2019s to the left most media, but he reads its performance the past 5 years the same as I do, and in some ways the same as Lee Iaccoca and many other patriotic Americans who can recognize when they\u2019ve being horn-swaggled.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Ritter\u2019s take on Rove and Cheney. We all should consider this POV, especially those who want with all their hearts to believe the war in Iraq is missionary work (and that global warming is simply cyclical, another story). We need to face reality for the good of the country and the world we love.<\/p>\n

Bro Don<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy Cheney Really Is That Bad\u201d<\/a>
\nBy Scott Ritter<\/p>\n

Karl Rove, interchangeably known as \u201cBoy Genius\u201d or \u201cTurd Blossom,\u201d<\/a> has left the White House. The press conference<\/a> announcing his decision to resign has been given front-page treatment by most major media outlets, but the fact of the matter is the buzz surrounding Rove\u2019s departure is much ado about nothing<\/em>, especially in terms of coming to grips with the remaining 16 months of the worst presidency in the history of the United States<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Rove is a domestic political marauder, the personification of a conservative movement which lacks a moral compass and has a complete disregard for facts\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cBush\u2019s Brain\u201d may claim that it was his careful manipulation of fiction over fact that carried the 2004 election, in which the term became synonymous with political character assassination<\/a>, but it was the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and the war in Iraq which sank the Democratic Party and its candidate for president, John Kerry. It is very difficult to unseat a president in a time of war, especially when so many Democrats voted in favor of the concept, first by buying into every post-9\/11 policy put forward by the Bush administration (find me one Democrat who actually read the Patriot Act<\/a> in its entirety before it was voted into law) and second by rubber-stamping the lies that led to Bush\u2019s decision to invade Iraq in March 2003.
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\nThe absolute worst of the rot that has infected America because of the policies and actions of the Bush administration has originated from the office of the vice president<\/em>. The nonsensical response to the terror attacks of 9\/11, seeking a \u201cglobal war\u201d versus defending the rule of law at home and abroad<\/em>, taking the lead in spreading the lies<\/em> that got us involved in Iraq, legitimizing torture<\/em> as a tool of American jurisprudence, advocating for warrantless wiretappings of U.S.-based communications<\/em> (regardless of what the Fourth Amendment says against illegal search and seizure), and pushing for an expansion of America\u2019s global conflict into Iran\u2013<\/em>all can be traced back to the person of Cheney as the point of origin.<\/p>\n

America today is very much engaged in a life-or-death struggle against the forces of evil.<\/p>\n

The enemy resides not abroad, however, but at home, vested in the highest offices of the land\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Read entire article here<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Don Williams Remember Scott Ritter, the US arms inspector and military man accused of being a traitor and much worse for reporting there were no WMDs in Iraq before we bombed, invaded and occupied? He knows a thing or six about \u201cfacts\u201d and the media and exploitation and personal attacks. I don\u2019t believe Ritter\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1616],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-1087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-usa-news","8":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}