Dick Cheney Memoir Tries To Rewrite History, Critics Claim

TIME:

Early critics have argued that Dick Cheney’s forthcoming memoir, held under strict embargo until its official release on Aug. 30, is a predictable reprise of old arguments. Like most examples of the genre, In My Time has plenty of those.

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Comments

[thirdcloud]

12:13 PM on 09/03/2011

Most telling is that it was Dick Cheney, himself, whose advice led to Bush selecting Paul O'Neill as his Treasury Chief. Absent is Cheney taking any real acceptance of responsibility for the Bush Administration's self serving easy money policy that ignited and fueled the unnoticed credit mania which ultimately resulted in surging oil prices, the housing crisis and the five year recession that continues with little optimism or immediate promise of resolve.

http://www.chicagonow.com/sheffield-gazette-digital-fish-wrap/2011/09/a-memoir-of-machination/

[thirdcloud]

12:10 PM on 09/03/2011

Readers ask yourselves; do these video clip statements featuring Cheney leave you wondering if those battery-operated pumps that push blood through his body are, indeed, flowing through a heart? http://youtu.be/uaUXgbFumvM

http://www.chicagonow.com/sheffield-gazette-digital-fish-wrap/2011/09/making-a-killing-%e2%80%93-in-my-time/

[mandalay007]

05:06 PM on 08/31/2011

CHICKENHAWK, Lovely seeing you again--------you were underground a while------stay there.

[Cloudburst]

02:03 AM on 08/31/2011

Cheney has to be one of the worst Vice Presidents in history. A close family friend - a former ambassador under George Bush (and a political conservative) said to me the most difficult challenge he had to face was Dick Cheney's attempts to micro-manage foreign affairs. This ambassador would receive phone calls in Africa from Cheney trying to tell him how to do his job - even though Cheney had never visited, studied, or even knew the political leaders of this African country. According to the Ambassador, Cheney's attempts to micro-manage foreign affairs went behind the back of Condie Rice. The Ambassador says that Cheney viewed Rice as sort of window dressing or a fig leaf to cover Cheney's control of foreign policy. In fact, in several meetings with Cheney and Rice, this former Ambassador says Rice never talked - Cheney dominated the meeting, even if he didn't know what he was talking about.

[Dcked Antho]

11:23 PM on 08/30/2011

When a group os authors and artists heard that Cheney was telling his stories in a memoir, they organized to tell their own stories and created D*CKED: Dark Fiction Inspirwed by Dick Cheney. Check it out: http://dicked.wordpress.com/

[spkman]

10:52 PM on 08/30/2011

I remember this like yesterday...

"TIME’s Barton Gellman dug into Dick Cheney’s new memoir and has uncovered discrepancies in his telling of the infamous dramatic hospital room confrontation at Attorney General John Ashcroft’s bedside. At issue was the attorney general’s refusal to reauthorize the secret warrantless wiretapping operation known as the Terrorist Surveillance Program:"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/iraq-war-on-terror/dick-cheney-accused-of-rewriting-history/

On another note... I believe you can still go to PBS and pull up and view all the interviews
Bill Moyers did re-guarding this exact subject...History and facts are not to be underestimated
if we refuse to ignore them...

[Robert Gambee Sr]

12:12 PM on 08/30/2011

This war criminal needs a day in court, not profit at the bookstand.

[Cacey]

07:36 AM on 08/30/2011

Given the fact that his daughter Liz cowrote the book, the one good thing that may come out of this is her being discredited.

[OneVox]

11:45 AM on 08/30/2011

Yes, the "Daugher of Dracula" raises her head once again.

[OhMyBoehner]

11:02 PM on 08/29/2011

Isn't that a republican RIGHT to rewrite history?

[SitandStay]

10:05 PM on 08/29/2011

I resent Cheney and Bush as much for the deaths they caused as for the execution of every citizens morale and setting the precedent that evil trumps good. That administration was treasonous beyond whatever could possibly have been imagined.
I do not believe we have any hope as a nation unless every law is redacted that was written in under 43. Those same laws are what is prepetrating the criminal activity that continues today in the housing and banking industry. As long as those laws remain, we have no foundation as a nation.

[hellotiki]

08:34 PM on 08/29/2011

I'm going to edit Cheney's Wikipedia page right now. So if you have any historical revisions to add, please let me know.
Did you guys ever hear about the legendary pssng contest with Chuck Norris?

[Theatrixnyc]

08:28 PM on 08/29/2011

Too much, too long, to go unchecked by us all. No, there won't be FULL confessions and we'll never know what really happened until years from now, the Day Before, The Day Of, and Since 9/11. BUT, In order for healing to begin, someone needs to be accountable, for Torture, if that's ALL we've got. America has not figured out a way to say she's sorry, and we have not begun to acknowledge pain from the other side, that we have caused, nor have we even taken the time to process the loss of our own troops...not really..We've made lot's of mistakes, and we allowed one man to run roughshod over the rest of us. So use Cheney. Make his life worthwhile. Doesn't it sound like he's begging to be the Martyr? Why deny him? Otherwise, people will never be satisfied. (some never will be, who could blame them? ) This might help everyone in clearing the decks...and Cheney is much easier to toss under a bus than a Bush Dynasty. Isn't he? No love lost, between Bush and Cheney, never was. Otherwise, Republicans have to walk thru Cheney, everytime they run for office, and it will be 10 Years or more, anyway, before anyone takes them serious, especially if they continue on the path they are on, which seems very Rove-like.. That won't be easy,....hasn't been so far. Never Forget. Some words just stick.

[bielymedved]

07:45 PM on 08/29/2011

Well we know about his childhood days from "Lil Bush." Did anything ever change?

[ywcachieve]

07:37 PM on 08/29/2011

It's a shame that he and Bush are able to escape justice. There really is two justices in this country. One for the rich, and one for the non-rich.

[OhMyBoehner]

07:37 PM on 08/29/2011

Isn't that a republican RIGHT to rewrite history? They all do it!