HE LED A LIFE OF EVIL and shares responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of men, Women and Children, the enslavement and oppression of many millions of others and a lifetime of self-seeking and personal enrichment. He can't take the loot he got with him but he can take the responsibility for what he did to get it. He helped to destroy the American republic in the first mainstream blow of the wrecking ball to it, the Bush v Gore suppression of the vote to install the boy-king, Bush II as he governed as unofficial regent, he exploited the attack that came about during the Bush II years, an warnings of which the team that Cheney-Bush II put into place incompetently and insouciently ignored (I still want to know how Condi Rice's little star turn recital with YoYo Ma figured in that nonfeasance) in order to lie us into the total disaster of the invasion of Iraq. I don't know what role he played in putting the worst Supreme Court chief "justice" in American history into place, the corrupt John Roberts or the equally corrupt Alito but I have every confidence he had a hand in that continuing and likely fatal attack on American democracy and even its existence as a republic. And there is no possible honest appraisal except that Roberts is the actual worst chief "justice" in U.S. history.
And that's only what he did in this century.
If anyone deserves to go to hell, it's Dick Cheney. Like the woman in the Irish joke who tells the priest she doesn't want her late husband out of purgatory but to spend a good long time there, I will admit that I hope Cheney is finally getting the corrective justice he earned. If that's determined by the seriousness and number of sins, he's got a hell of a hell to go through, yet.
I'll get back to you on this if Bush II dies before I do.
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