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Cheney Starts New Cold War Over Oil
By Mark Ames, The eXile.
Posted June 1, 2006.

One of the oddest reactions to Vice President Cheney's now-infamous speech in Lithuania, the one which many Russians believe officially heralded the start of a new Cold War, came from the mainstream American media. What was so strange? They actually did their job.

Instead of simply parroting the Administration's latest pieties, they actually allowed themselves to smell a rat. And what a putrid, bloated, rotting-in-a-flooded-Manila-gutter rat odor it was! You'd have to have been literally brain dead not to have smelled it.

The rat of course was the insane hypocrisy of a foaming fascist like Dick Cheney suddenly getting all Amnesty International righteous over a bad regime that does bad things. The fact that Cheney flew straight to Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan right after squirting over Russia's human rights problems turned the rank hypocrisy into a bad black comedy routine, barely fit for even a Tom Green. Kazakhstan is a country where opposition politicians and media aren't merely jailed, exiled or cowed as they are in Russia, but are shot and dumped in forests, Miller's Crossing-style, on behalf of a despot whose family runs the country like its own fiefdom.

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When Putin reached out to Bush and gave him everything he asked for post-9/11, his base was furious. Particularly the Siloviki -- the Russian officials from the old Soviet intelligence and military services who came into power in the late Yeltsin and Putin years -- who saw it as yet another in a series of betrayals, a repeat of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, whom they believed had betrayed Russia's interests in order to earn a pat on the head from America. They argued that Putin was being naive and foolish just as his predecessors were; and that in the end, the Americans would fuck him like they fucked Gorby and Yeltsin. Russia would get nothing for helping, neither would Putin; nothing but problems, just like what happened in the '90s.

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Long article, but a pretty good read.

Evil, pure evil. :evilfrown:

first it's a little aside in a speech (hell, i remember the day the chimp uttered the name iraq after 9/11) then the rhetoric begins to escalate, the drumbeat gets louder, and bingo we're at war. russia is in a weakened state and is just ripe for the maniacs running our gov't.

please, tell me i'm wrong.

for offense - against Russia.

Maybe Dubya is going there as a bolt hole when the jig is finally up beyond all hopes of staying on the loose in America!

Cheney is feeling no pain. Like Scalia, he feels no qualms about flauting his hypocrisy in the press. He thinks he's invincible and invulnerable. Let's prove bot h Cheney and Scalia wrong, by prosecuting them to the full extent of US law, and then sending Cheney at least to the Hague. Scalia we can just jail for life....it would be a growth experience for him!

of the politics of Gerogia, pipelines and so on over the past few years.