closure last hearing of House Select Committee January 6, Jr. Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, delivered powerful indictment of Abuses of Donald Trump of his followers. “He hunts on their patriotism,” she said, turning their love of country into arms. In a moment she added: “We must remember that we cannot refuse truth as well as remain free nation.”
She is right. And Cheney deserves the glory she receives for courageously fighting the authoritarianism that has taken over over Republican Party. That’s why she lost party leadership position and on Tuesday is likely to lose primary training to a Trump aide.
There is a bitter irony in The fall of Cheney: she dies by the very politics her father defended. A weapon of patriotism? Rejection truth? Vice President Dick Cheney was a pioneer.
In my new The Destructionists: A Twenty-Five Year Crisis. of Republican Party, I traced the actions of Republican Party Leaders who essentially created the Trump era by removing the fences of our political system. Dick Cheney was one such a leader.
Liz Cheney is right of championship of truth is free people. But her father abandoned in truth in the deepest way the beginning of the war on the foundation of lies. Liz Cheney condemns evil of hunt on patriotism. But her father was key figure in The White House, which politicized the 9/11 attacks and portrayed opponents like traitors.
There was an extraordinary national unity after the 2001 attacks. But the strategists of George W. Bush argued that the Republicans should “to go to the village” on in issue of terrorism and focus on war” in elections of 2002 and 2004, proving that the Democrats threaten the safety of Americans. On the campaign trail, Dick Cheney warned that if people made ” wrong choice” and voted Democratic, “then danger what will we get hit again what will we be hit in a way it will be devastating.” As Bush said, Democrats are “not interested in in security of The American peopleCheney said that the election of the Republicans was “vital.” for “Defending our Motherland”.
That same year, Republicans close to the administration ran the infamous ad featuring of Senator Max Cleland (D-GA), triple amputee from service. in Vietnam, with Pictures of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Two years later a group with ties to Bush did the same to Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry, with trumped-up accusations that he lied about his service in Vietnam and betrayed his comrades.
Cheney was also home force for misrepresenting intelligence about Iraq to make a deal for war. He falsely claimed in 2001 that it was “sufficiently confirmed” that the mastermind behind 9/11 met with Iraqi intelligence. He falsely named evidence of the connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda is “irresistible”, and said that Hussein had “long-standing ties with Al Qaeda.” He falsely called Iraq “the geographic base of of terrorists who have had us under attack… on 11 September”.
Cheney said in 2002 that he is “convinced that Saddam acquire nuclear weapons are fair soon”; US intelligence reported that this was almost a decade away. In the end, Cheney frankly – and falsely – said that Iraq “in fact refurbished nuclear weapons.
In a scandal over leaving the White House of CIA operative after her husband questioned the administration’s nuclear statements, chief Cheney of employee, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, was convicted of perjury. Former White House Press secretary Scott McClellan later complained that Libby “and perhaps Vice President Cheney allowed me, even encouraged me, to repeat lies”.
Cheney stated that “we will, in fact welcome as liberators” in Iraq; intelligence (accurately) warned that the situation could “deteriorate rapidly”. Cheney later erroneously claimed that Iraq had “become a cornerthat the insurgency was “in in last torment.”
These infections are using disinformation and patriotism as a political weapon – spread through the Republican Party and completely swallowed it with Trump triumph. Too late, Liz Cheney got up bravely against both on facet of political link. Currently, in in final act, Dick Cheney is back shooting commercials for his daughter.
“In our country 246-year history has never been a man who poses a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.” elder Cheney said. “He is a coward. BUT real a man would not lie to his supporters.”
No, he wouldn’t. All our Greek tragedy needs now is a catharsis: a flicker of self-awareness from Dick Cheney about his role in causing it.
