Gravelbourg & District Tribune

Recently one of America’s mass murderers died. He is Dick Cheney, the former Vice President of the US from 2001 – 2009.

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Cheney represents what I consider the most vile, corrupt and misguided image of the US hegemonic empire. He was a warmonger and murderer who truly believed that the US had some god given right to do regime changes and finance death squads where ever and when ever. The US has been involved in over 70 regime changes and Cheney’s war in Iraq is one of the most brutal. (Source Jeffery Sachs of Columbia University American economist, public policy analyst). He may not equal the likes of Henry Kissinger but he's running a strong second place.

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The war in Iraq killed over one million people and laid waste huge tracks of land. We all know it was based on a lie. A clear and deliberate lie that was disproved before and during the illegal invasion. Cheney simply did not care. He pushed and promoted the ‘war on terror’ as a moral obligation and destroying Iraq was just another day of global U.S. hegemony.

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Torture, in his calculus, was acceptable. Accountability was optional. Humanity, irrelevant.

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His family said, “We are grateful beyond measure for all Dick Cheney did for our country. And we are blessed beyond measure to have loved and been loved by this noble giant of a man.”

 

If I had a father or family member who bragged about killing millions of people I would have a difficult time calling him a “noble giant of a man”.

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If there is a place after death for people like him then he’ll be in good company. You would find Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, and Stalin etc. as well as most of the religious nut cases; and on and on.

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I have three words for Cheney and they aren’t ‘rest in peace’.