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From: Elizabethtown, KY News
June 29, 2007
by Steve Atcher
It seems Vice-President Dick Cheney has lost his slight grip on reality and slipped completely into the delusional world of the megalomaniac.
This week Cheney claimed that as the Vice-President, he is not part of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government.
Alrighty, then. What more proof do we need that the veep has lost it? Oh, you want more proof. Okay.
The following are just a few incidents selected from an article from Harper's Magazine, 104 Events concerning Dick Cheney from the year 2000 to 2007. The article is a must read.
*24 July 2001--Vice President Dick Cheney thought it would be a good idea for the Navy to pay his $186,000 home electric bill.
*22 January 2002--Vice President Cheney, citing executive privilege, was still refusing to turn over records of his meetings with Enron officials, with whom he met five times to discuss energy policy.
*13 August 2002--Vice President Dick Cheney told Iraqi opposition leaders that the United States was committed to overthrowing Saddam Hussein and installing a democratic replacement, who would then be treated as a major ally. [Note: The United States invaded Iraq in March of 2003.]
*27 June 2003--Douglas Feith, an undersecretary at the Pentagon, said he didn't "know anybody in any government of any intelligence agency who suggested that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons"; it was immediately pointed out that Vice President Dick Cheney made precisely that claim in March.
*28 February 2004--Powerful Republicans were said to be urging President Bush to get rid of Dick Cheney, who continued to insist, contrary to all evidence, that stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction will be found in Iraq, and that Saddam Hussein was allied with Al Qaeda.
*10 March 2004--CIA director George Tenet revealed that he has privately corrected Dick Cheney several times after the vice president publicly "misconstrued" intelligence.
*17 April 2004--Bob Woodward reported in a new book, that among other things, Colin Powell "also let it be known that Dick Cheney was the powerful, steamrolling force behind the decision to invade."
*25 June 2004--Cheney said he felt much better after he told Senator Patrick Leahy, who has been critical of Halliburton's war profiteering in Iraq, to go f**k himself.
*7 October 2004--Cheney claimed that he had never before met Senator Edwards; newspapers then published a photograph of the two men smiling and speaking together at a prayer breakfast.
*12 February 2006--U.S. President Dick Cheney shot and severely injured a fellow hunter while hunting quail at a friend's 50,000-acre Texas ranch.
*22 June 2006--Vice President Dick Cheney discussed his similarities to Darth Vader, and said that reporters offend him.
And now, Vice-President Dick Cheney makes the historically and constitutionally inaccurate claim that the vice-president's office is not part of the Executive Branch of government.
Megalomania is a psycho-pathological condition characterized, in part, by delusional fantasies of power, or omnipotence; and an obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions.
Vice President Dick Cheney appears to suffer from this condition.
His actions and his statements bespeak of a man who believes he has ultimate power to decide the fate of this nation, and ultimate power to ignore its form of government and its constitution.
His obsession with that power has led him to push this country into an unjust and unnecessary war; to violate the constitution's dictates concerning American civil rights to privacy through illegal and unwarranted wiretapping; to violate international law concerning the treatment of prisoners; and now--to fantasize that the office of the vice-president is not part of the Executive Branch of government in an attempt to stymie efforts to examine the records of his office.
The country has suffered too much from this man. It is time to take him away in a straitjacket for the good of this country, and indeed, the world.
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