Cheney wants us to stop asking questions ( Papantonio | Pensacola News Journal)

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Mike Papantonio • May 27, 2009

... You've probably noticed that Cheney has come out of his secluded bunker after hiding for eight years. Think back to the number of times when the media was asking "Where is Cheney?" Like the time he hid in his private bunker after 9/11. Or the times no one could find him after Hurricane Katrina, and after he accidentally shot his friend in the head during a bird hunt ...

Cheney wants us to quit asking questions. Not just questions about Gitmo. He wants us to stop wondering about his role in domestic spying on journalists, peace activists and political opponents. The once reclusive Cheney is urging us to stop asking those pesky questions about how he rigged the intelligence process to gin up an unnecessary war in Iraq. According to Cheney, it is inappropriate for Americans to ask about how many billions of dollars disappeared in Halliburton contract fraud.

In the last few weeks, Ventura has been in attack mode, telling Americans just the opposite. Ventura's philosophy is that Americans need to kick over the rotting logs left behind by Cheney. According to Ventura, we need to prosecute the creatures that have been hiding there.

Ventura's advice is good. Unless we continue to dig deeper, we will never know how much damage our democracy sustained. We won't be in a position to make repairs unless we fully explore the wreckage that Cheney created.

http://www.pnj.com/article/20090527/OPINION/905270330/1161/NEWS01

[Lasher]

1. Of course he does.

Let him talk, he's just digging his hole deeper.

[opihimoimoi]

2. If a crime...and from what I see, its a WAR CRIME....we have no choice but to eventually address

this issue...

GET a SPECIAL PROSECUTOR

[Lasher]

3. Reagan/Poppy Bush should have been prosecuted for Iran/Contra too.

And yet we gave them and their entire administrations a pass. Clinton didn't want to dwell on the past. Let bygones be bygones, ya know.

[Raster]

4. Clinton was "told" not to dwell on the past.

[tavalon]

5. Tough shit Darth Cheney, we are going to talk about it until

you're brought up on charges and then we'll talk about it some more until you are behind bars. Many of us will spit on your grave when you die and make sure to tell our children what you were like, you evil son of a bitch.