Darth Cheney

Afutilestan (VII): The Great Game Revisted

by Propagandee December 5, 2009

President Obama demonstrating the logic of his Afghanistan policy Geography is destiny, Napoleon is reported to have said. I began to appreciate that political truism early on, thanks to marathon games of  Risk I  played as a kid.  According to Wikipedia, Risk was originally released in France in 1957, as La Conquête du Monde—The Conquest [...]

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Godzilla From Wasilla Meets The Texas Outlaw

by Propagandee July 7, 2009

More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of “narcissistic personality disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—“a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for [...]

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Neo-Decepticons At It Again

by Propagandee June 29, 2009

Transforming the Middle East, one neocon deception at a time No, this isn’t a review of the new film sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (worldwide 5 day gross $381 million), in which a race of evil alien robots known as the Decepticons return to earth in an attempt to redeem their former glory. Rather, [...]

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Judgment Day

by Propagandee May 17, 2009

I warned you;  now I have to use “Harsh Interrogation Methods.” It’s time to excise the cancer for the American body politic known as Bush-Cheney Administration. When both Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and former Grand Inquisitor Darth Cheney agree that critical documents be declassified about how torture was used during the previous eight [...]

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Torture In Context: Update 3 3/4

by Propagandee May 14, 2009

A typical waterboarding session on Darth Cheney’s day off Since my April 22 post, Torture In Context, I’ve noticed a number of people pursuing the same logical conclusion from slightly different angles: The reverse engineered SERE torture resistance training used on various al Qaeda captives was not designed to produce actionable intelligence but to elicit [...]

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Torture In Context: Update 2

by Propagandee May 9, 2009

Darth Cheney’s ancestor getting the story Last month, I wrote: 3. The “brainwashing” techniques from which the Bush Administration’s torture regime was derived was specifically DESIGNED TO PRODUCE FALSE CONFESSIONS FOR PROPAGANDA PURPOSES. HuLO-OH… (I still recall grainy black and white film of harried looking POWs from the Korean War, denouncing America; dozens of videos [...]

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Torture In Context

by Propagandee April 22, 2009

Demonstrating an “enhanced interrogation technique” In 1999, Bush‘s family biographer, Mickey Herskowitz, reports that W. told him he was intent on invading Iraq, saying that his status as a war time president would give him enough political capital to push through his conservative domestic agenda. (That would include the privatization of social security whose blood [...]

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Wingnut Woodstock

by Propagandee February 27, 2009

A Ditto Head eagerly awaiting his marching orders Attendees at this weekend’s Wingnut Woodstock (aka the Conservative Political Action Committee) began spilling out of their school buses today, a white smocked Christopher Lloyd checking their names off his clipboard. The Dream Team of speakers include the usual suspects: Bill “The Gambler” Bennett, Ann Coultergeist, Rick [...]

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Palin Targets Polar Bears

by Propagandee August 30, 2008

That Great White Hunter, Vice President Darth Cheney, is famous for shooting near-captive birds and genteel lawyers in the face. Now his would-be successor, Sarah Palin, an avowed hunter and NRA pinup gal, whom MSNBC analyst Pat Buchanan called “McCain’s new girl,” is picking up where Cheney left off. In an op-ed to the NY [...]

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Was Georgia’s Aggression An August Surprise? Update

by Propagandee August 28, 2008

Russian Prime Minister Vladamir Putin Implicates McSame Two week ago, in my post titled Was Georgia’s Aggression An August Surprise? , I noted speculation from the likes of Randi Rhodes, Greg Sargent at TPM and Daily Kos’s Hunter that Georgia‘s aggression against South Ossetia seemed to bear a “Made in the USA” label, designed to [...]

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Urantian Sojourn Magazine

by Terry June 19, 2008

Pursuing The Right: Inside this Week’s Urantian Sojourn Magazine Oooh you’re so jaded! Not the neocon “right,” you silly jelly beans, but the real “Right,” as in the Right Stuff.~ This week’s headliners tell the story of real love between the Obamas, the kind of love that we all search for; real love, given freely, [...]

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Another Darth Cheney Lie Exposed

by Propagandee June 14, 2008

McClatchy News Services reports: Cheney on Wednesday told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that “oil is being drilled right now 60 miles off the coast of Florida.” “We’re not doing it. The Chinese are in cooperation with the Cuban government.” ”Even the communists have figured out that a good answer to high prices is more [...]

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What Happened: The Culturing of Deception

by Propagandee May 31, 2008

Former Bush Administration Press Secretary Scott McClellan‘s new tell-all book, What Happened:Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, hasn’t even officially hit the bookshelves yet and there is already a ton of reviews and political analyses, thanks to advance copies provided to the well-connected. My local Borders is not among the elite, [...]

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