Seems this also missed Cheney's 'service' to Tricky Dick, as the man
responsible for cleaning up Watergate. He and Rummy never let Ford do a
dammed thing, if Ford was for something and C&R was against it, Ford had
to go along with them.
It was Cheney that stated 'The Freedom of Information Act has set us
back decades and I will not rest till it is destroyed'
He and Rummy led that charge without doing anything to it during Regen
tenure, but during GHWB and GWB he got it dismantled to the point that
they can black out 50 pages and release that as being acceptable, and
Obama wouldn't have been 1/10th as effective in prosecuting whistle
blowers while protecting Government Criminals, if he hadn't had
Cheney's, his cousins handiwork, to get him through.
Every president since Jefferson, except Tyler, has been related to King
John.... as well as Cheney and half a dozen 'other memorable men' who
were proficient at making bankable profits out of bloodshed. Those who
set up the financial situations that caused the American revolution, and
the pirates and Insurance companies and the West Indies Trade Company,
were also related to King John......one of the reasons they could get
away with the crap they pulled when in the power situations they had
'risen' to.
What I want to know is who/what was going on to keep him and Obama and
their ilk for the last 200 years, out of trouble and primed to run the
country 30-50 years before they got into office. Who is it that is being
primed for the next 50?
Every President except Tyler, since Jefferson has supported the
International mega businesses and bankers, and none without major force
has ever backed up anything that was to support we the people. We've
gotten to where we are today due to a 200 year assault on out
Constitution and what the basic principals of this country was, and the
co-opted Koch Billionaire Funded Tea Party be dammed, they're simply
supporting the agitating corporate faction against the one in power now.
If those SOB's worked together more often, we'd have been history turned
into a bank account long ago.
Scott
The Chapter That Went Missing From Dick Cheney's Book
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RUFF/message/74408;_ylc=X3oDMTJzbjRhNG1rBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzEwNDk0NjQxBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA4Mzc2NARtc2dJZAM3NDQwOARzZWMDZG1zZwRzbGsDdm1zZwRzdGltZQMxMzE0NzAzOTEy>
> Dick Cheney's hyper-hyped autobiography is short on revelations (it turns
> out that the "secret undisclosed location" was his house) but long, very
> long, on excuse making when it comes to the wars of whim into which he
> steered the United States. The former vice president is still sure there
> were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, dismissing any talk of
apologizing
> for his own weapons of mass deception pontificating in the run-up to the
> Iraq War. In fact, Cheney remains enthusiastic about every aspect of the
> wars of whim he steered the country into as Ronald Reagan's chief
> congressional ally during the Iran-Contra scandal, George H.W. Bush's
> hapless secretary of defense and George W. Bush's neoconman prince
regent,
> But where's the chapter on Cheney's heroic service in Vietnam? Of, that's
> right, he had "other priorities" than responding to draft notices.
>
> Try as readers may to find the tale of Cheney's Vietnam service or, to be
> more precise, his meticulous avoidance of service, they just won't
find that
> *In My Time*
<http://www.npr.org/2011/08/26/139977274/a-look-at-dick-cheneys-unapologetic-memoir
<http://www.npr.org/2011/08/26/139977274/a-look-at-dick-cheneys-unapologetic-memoir>>
offers much in the way of revelation about Cheney's times.
>
> Cheney has always positioned himself as an arch militarist. But when
he had
> a chance to get on the front lines, he instead got deferments. A lot
of them
>
> Richard Bruce Cheney was "of age" for service during the Vietnam
conflict.
> Faced with the chance to engage on the battlefield or the home front,
> however, he dodged out -- not for moral reasons but selfish ones.
Pulitzer
> Prize-winning author David Maraniss, who interviewed Cheney for his
book *They
> Marched Into Sunlight*
<http://www.amazon.com/They-Marched-Into-Sunlight-Vietnam/dp/0743217802
<http://www.amazon.com/They-Marched-Into-Sunlight-Vietnam/dp/0743217802>>,
> says the vice president just couldn't be bothered. "I think he's
emblematic
> of a certain type. He wasn't against the war, just didn't want
anything to
> do with it," explains Maraniss. "He wanted to get on with his life
and not
> let the world get in the way."
>
> Unfortunately, the world had a tendency to get in the way of young
men who,
> like Cheney, were of draft age when the US troop presence in Vietnam
began
> to rise in the mid-1960s. As a result, there was one sense in which
Cheney
> mirrored the actions, if not the politics, of his fellow students. Dick
> Cheney was definitely opposed to the draft, at least as far as it
affected
> him. Indeed, unlike George W. Bush, who performed some sort of service --
> ill-defined and unrecorded as it may have been -- in the Texas Air
National
> Guard, Cheney reacted to the prospect of wearing his country's
uniform like
> a man with a deadly allergy to olive drab.
>
> Between 1963 and 1965, Cheney used his student status at Casper
College and
> the University of Wyoming to apply for and receive four 2-S draft
> deferments. As the war in Vietnam heated up, Cheney fought to defend and
> expand his deferments. Twenty-two days after Congress approved the
Gulf of
> Tonkin resolution in August 1964, raising the prospect of a rapid
expansion
> of the draft, he "coincidentally" -- in the words of a *Washington
> Post*profile -- married longtime girlfriend Lynne Vincent. The>
advantage was that
> even if his student deferment was lifted, his married status might carry
> some weight with his draft board.
>
> But the Vietnamese were not cooperating with Cheney's schemes. The
war kept
> demanding more and more young American men, and the range of those
who were
> eligible for the draft expanded rapidly. On May 19, 1965, Cheney was
> reclassified with the most dangerous draft status: 1-A, "available for
> military service." Soon afterward, Lyndon Johnson announced that draft
> call-ups would double, and on October 26, Selective Service
constraints on
> the drafting of childless married men were lifted. Danang was
calling. And
> it didn't look like Dick had any excuses left.
>
> But there was one way for ambitious young men to avoid serving their
country
> while maintaining their political viability. If Cheney had a child,
he'd be
> reclassified 3-A, removing him from the pool of those likely to be
drafted.
> Cheney needed a kid -- quick. And he got one. Precisely nine months
and two
> days after the Selective Service eliminated special protections for
> childless married men, Cheney was no longer childless. His daughter
> Elizabeth was born on July 28, 1966. Convenient? Coincidence? That's not
> Cheney's style. Writer Timothy Noah did the math and suggested that the
> timing of Elizabeth's arrival "would seem to indicate that the Cheneys,
> though doubtless planning to have children sometime, were seized with an
> untamable passion the moment Dick Cheney became vulnerable to the Vietnam
> draft. And acted on it. Carpe diem! Who says government policy can't
affect
> human behavior?"
>
> Cheney applied for 3-A status immediately, receiving it on January
l9, 1966,
> when Lynne was still in the first trimester of her pregnancy.
>
> Twenty-three years later, when Cheney appeared before the Senate to plead
> the case for his confirmation as George Herbert Walker Bush's defense
> secretary, he was questioned about his failure to serve. Cheney responded
> that he "would have obviously been happy to serve had I been called."
In a
> more truthful moment that same year, Cheney admitted to a reporter,
"I had
> other priorities in the '60s than military service." Cheney's lie to the
> Senate has never caused much concern, but that "other priorities"
line has
> dogged him. After he selected himself to serve on the 2000 Republican
> ticket, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jesse Brown, a Vietnam
veteran
> disabled by a gunshot wound to his right arm, said, "As a former
Marine who
> was wounded and nearly lost his life, I personally resent that comment. I
> resent that he had 'other priorities,' when 58,000 people died and over
> 300,000 returned wounded and disabled. In my mind there is no doubt that
> because he had 'other priorities' someone died or was injured in his
place."
>
> That may sound like a harsh assessment, but the fact is that at least a
> dozen men aged 19 to 47 from Cheney's adopted hometown of Casper,
Wyoming,
> died in Vietnam during the period when Cheney might have served. Because
> local draft boards had to fill quotas when a man who was eligible got a
> deferment, someone else had to fill the slot. The vagaries of draft
quotas,
> military service and the war itself make it impossible to say whether
Leroy
> Robert Cardenas or Walter Elmer Handy or Douglas Tyrone Patrick or any of
> the other sons of Casper who perished in Southeast Asia might have
survived
> the war years and gone on to explore their "other priorities" if
Cheney had
> responded to his country's call. But that doesn't stop some of those who
> served from asking, "Who died in your place, Dick Cheney?"
>
> When Cheney served as vice president, Vietnam veteran Dennis Mansker
raised
> that question on a website, where he maintained a list of the dead from
> Casper. Maybe Cheney did have other priorities, Mansker argues, but
"so did
> these guys."
>
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