Psycho Cheney

Unindicted war criminal and war profiteering Überfuhrer Dick Cheney apparently no longer feels it necessary to covert and compartmentalize his criminal abuses of power to manufacture wars for personal profit. Cheney has apparently abandoned any pretense of executive probity, these days just ordering officials to provide excuses for his criminal enterprises, according to a recent report by Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker.

Preparing the Battlefield [New Yorker]

Hersh describes a reportedly tense exchange between US Navy vessels and a squad of five small Iranian naval patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz in early January. The US naval commander for the region quickly discounted those reports as overblown - but it apparently served as an inspiration to Cheney, who no doubt has another big deal riding on war with Iran, in much the same way as he and his company, Halliburton and its subsidies, were able to cash in big time on dealing death in Iraq.

A few weeks after the incident and level-headed interpretation by the naval commander, Cheney, insanely set on inciting another profitable massacre in Iran, scheduled a meeting of defense officials specifically on the subject of fabricating a rationale for attacking Iran. The link above is for the sixth page of the piece, where it gets a passing mention.

Earlier this month, Hersh, at a journalism conference sponsored by The Nation magazine and Campus Progress revealed that he had a lot more details on a false flag attack that Cheney was entertaining but the sackless bag o’ shit editors at the Conde Nast New Yorker refused to publish them. ThinkProgress provided a transcript of Hersh’s chilling revelations with details of the theatrics Cheney is entertaining to trigger a new war, this time with Iran.

HERSH: There was a meeting. Among the items considered and rejected — which is why the New Yorker did not publish it, on grounds that it wasn’t accepted — one of the items was why not…

There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up. Might cost some lives.

And it was rejected because you can’t have Americans killing Americans. That’s the kind of — that’s the level of stuff we’re talking about. Provocation. But that was rejected.

So I can understand the argument for not writing something that was rejected — uh maybe. My attitude always towards editors is they’re mice training to be rats.

But the point is jejune, if you know what that means. Silly? Maybe. But potentially very lethal. Because one of the things they learned in the incident was the American public, if you get the right incident, the American public will support bang-bang-kiss-kiss. You know, we’re into it.

…What happened in the Gulf was, in the Straits, in early January, the President was just about to go to the Middle East for a visit. So that was one reason they wanted to gin it up. Get it going.

Look, is it high school? Yeah. Are we playing high school with you know 5,000 nuclear warheads in our arsenal? Yeah we are. We’re playing, you know, who’s the first guy to run off the highway with us and Iran.

Chilling shit - but Hersh is naive if he thinks the false flag proposal has been taken off the table.  Nothing is beyond these criminal fucks.