In a cardioverter-defibrillator-monitored-and-maintained heartbeat.

Then I continued reading my usual newsblogs, and the Obama administration was continuing the same practices that we were so upset about with the Republicans.

So I took a vacation and started studying history in the same manner that EW et al have taken on current political events in the US. Pearl Harbor is similar to 9/11. The United States funded Hitler’s rise to power. World War I was staged to get a foothold in the Middle East. The Council of Nicea was the ultimate in political dirty tricks.

The amount of human torture that has been planned by others is staggering. The level of suffering that has been planned by others in order to enrich the few has caused me to desire to rise above American politics and look into the history of politics itself.

Politics feeds on manipulation through fear and human suffering. Hegel, the philosopher who posited that thesis v antithesis = synthesis (if you create two opposing sides and then bring them into conflict, you get a brand new force). It’s old school Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine.

Where did Bush, Cheney and Rove come from? Where did Rahm, Nancy and Barrack come from? And how much human suffering will it take for us to dig deeper and continue connecting the dots that EW and all of you work so hard at concerning Dick Cheney?

Who nurtured Dick Cheney?

Cheney had spent a decade preparing for nuclear holocaust. He participated in annual drills, hiding in a fortified undergroudn bunker, acting as the sole surviving government leader of an attack. After 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, Cheney’s paranoia and fears of additional attacks morphed into a complicated government takeover.

Bush/Cheney politicized the justice department to expand their executive powers, reinterpret the laws to establish enemy combatant status for prisoners, and to redefine, condone, carry out, and cover up torture. They approved the CIA’s rendition of detainees to black sights in foreign countries where they could be tortured to supply “proof” that would back up their plan to go to war. They created Guantanamo as an off-shore detention center that was outside the reach of law. They ordered the kidnapping and detention of people from around the world and held them for years without due process.

The CIA, DOD, Justice Department, and the executive branch ginned up fears of terrorism to promote their political agendas. In the name of “keeping America safe,” they staged a defacto takeover of the U.S. government, carried out illegal acts, circumvented our system of checks and balances, and protected themselves from prosecution with “golden shields” provided by the justice department. Whenever Cheney or Addington were challenged, they browbeat, ridiculed, dismissed, and destroyed the careers of those who dared to speak out(Powell, Plame, Goldsmith, Mora, Zelikow). Many had told Cheney and Addington that what they were doing was in fact torture, it was illegal, and warned them that “we may hang for this.” The Bush/Cheney administration hid the truth from Congressional investigation and 9/11 Commission inquiry behind the excuse of “national security” and shielded themselves with “executive immunity.”

Just as they lied about the Iran/Contra Affair, the CIA was caught lying to the 9/11 Commission about the existence of torture and interrogation videotapes, and then they destroyed them to avoid embarrassment and prosecution. It is not a stretch to believe that the CIA lied about torture to Nancy Pelosi. Panetta wasn’t there; Tenet and Hadley were, and they were involved in the conspiracy. With the help of his neo-con friend David Addington, Cheney ran the lead up to the war with Iraq, the war on terror, including the torture of detainees while ignorant go-alongs Bush and Gonzales followed in lock step.

Joe Wilson is right. All of this is connected. Those at the top who were involved should be required to testify under oath. No more excuses; no more distractions; no more denials. Americans need to understand exactly what Bush/Cheney did and how they got away with it. What they did to individuals to create excuses to go to war and how they ruined our standing in the world is no worse that what they did to destroy our system of government. And they did it right under our noses.

We know the truth,

this should be ”The Lie Commission”
…they’ll have a lot more stuff to find.

Let me count the ways. Lie by lie.

#1. WMD
#2. Saddam/Osama Link
#3. ”They’ll welcome us with open arms…”
(by ”arms” did they mean AK-47’s?)
#5. Ohio election fraud
#6. ”We Do Not Torture”
#7. ”The economy is strong.”
#8+. fill in the blank(s)

http://video.google.com/videop…..8768610598