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Former Massachusetts Governor and singer of praise for war criminals, Mitt Romney (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Mitt Romney – the undisputed king of flip flops who is regarded with a disturbingly delusional amount of legitimacy in the mainstream media – has announced that he would like a Vice President like infamous war criminal Dick Cheney, a man who strangely also recently claimed that Israel is planning a preemptive strike against Iran.
Personally, I didn’t think it was possible for Romney to delegitimize himself any further than he has already by changing his opinion on just about every single major issue he pretends to care about. Well it appears that I was completely wrong.
In what NBC called “a free-wheeling town hall that felt more like a rally” in Arizona, Romney revealed either a total lack of factual knowledge or a complete disregard for the sanctity of human life by praising the former Vice President Cheney as “a person of wisdom and judgment.”
Cheney might have “judgment” if you consider the approval of torture, mass murder and illegal war any kind of sound judgment.
The notion of Cheney having anything remotely resembling “wisdom” is, at best, laughable.
How can Romney make such overtures about the former Vice President knowing that he laughs when confronted on the fact that people are seeking to charge him as a war criminal?
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Romney would praise Cheney’s judgment, seeing as Romney can’t manage to judge anything, opting instead to go with whatever he thinks will make him popular at the time.
Currently, it is the whole hijacked “Tea Party” movement that Romney has attached himself to like a leech, attempting to suck as many votes from the ignorant and easily deceived as possible.
It is not even as though Cheney has endorsed Romney in 2012 and so we could explain it away by saying that Romney is simply returning the favor. In fact, Cheney has yet to endorse anyone in 2012 but I guess there are more pressing matters for a war criminal without a pulse.
For those who are not aware of some of the horrors Dick Cheney has supported, you might be interested in reading this International Criminal Court complaint filed against Cheney along with former President George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice and Alberto Gonzalez by a law professor at University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign found here.
Or you might remember that Cheney helped forge the concept of “enemy combatant” in the so-called “War on Terror” which Cheney and the Bush regime to flout the Geneva Conventions in order to torture and indefinitely detain countless individuals, many of which are innocent of any wrongdoing.
A related aspect of Cheney’s war crimes is the establishment of Guantanamo Bay, where unspeakable horrors occur to this day, all in our name and the fallacious defense of freedom.
I don’t know about you, but my freedom doesn’t require torturing Muslims to death or rounding up children and senile old men to be tortured and detained indefinitely.
Or how about the outing of former CIA agent Valerie Plame to Cheney’s former chief of staff Scooter Libby, who in turn leaked her identity to a New York Times reporter?
Plame’s husband, Joe Wilson, said it best when he called Libby and Cheney traitors on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” last year.
The most damning evidence against Cheney, however, is the invasion of Iraq. Even what I consider to be an illegitimate and unaccountable body, the United Nations, declared that the invasion of Iraq was illegal.
It was in direct violation of the Nuremberg Charter and Kofi Annan then called it “an illegal act that contravened the UN charter.”
If we accept the fact that the invasion of Iraq under completely false pretenses was indeed illegal, which I’ve never heard successfully refuted, then the countless Iraqis killed as a result were deliberate acts of murder carried out at the behest of Cheney and the joke of a president, George W. Bush.
Of course Obama would never go after Bush and Cheney because if he did it would set the precedent for his successor to prosecute him for war crimes in Libya and his egregious breach of the Constitution that he carried out in bombing the North African nation into oblivion.
Romney just showed his true colors, yet again, by praising a proud war criminal in a repulsively sycophantic manner to his tragically misled supporters.
I hope this will be just another nail in the coffin of Romney’s highly questionable credibility and even more importantly mark the end of his campaign for President in 2012. I won’t hold my breath, though, as the members of the GOP seem to be, yet again, choosing to latch on to incredibly ignorant and inconsistent candidates just as they did with George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004.
Unfortunately, these imbeciles are actually put into office so we have to take the threat of a man who openly supports war crimes quite seriously.
