There is a new axis of evil in the United States, consisting of dozens of influential extremists of every shape and color. However, if I were to select three individuals to symbolize them, in place of the old Axis of Evil, they would be Dick Cheney, his daughter Liz, and William Kristol. Each has a measure of responsibility for the destruction that the Bush administration brought to the US and the world, and they still, as individuals and groups, continue to strive for even more destruction. The goals of the former vice president used to be and continue to be economic. The firm Halliburton, which he used to head, received contracts from the Bush-Cheney administration worth $27 billion, and these include no-bid tenders to re-operate Iraq's oil sector. Halliburton subsidiaries, we later found out, continued to work in Iran up to 2007, even though the country was a member of the old Axis of Evil. Today, in addition to “business” aspect of Cheney's work, there is a personal reason for his actions: many people consider him a war criminal and are calling for him to be tried for the killing of thousands of young Americans in the war on Iraq, the pretexts for which were deliberate falsified. Perhaps Cheney is encouraged to be even more insufferable because Barack Obama ordered, at the beginning of his term, to not prosecute the pillars of the former administration, and thus he does not fear a response from the president. Liz Cheney is a member of the new Axis of Evil for defending her father; she also is seeking a post. She nominated herself for a seat in the House or the Senate, but she will not succeed if it is proved that her father is a war criminal. She depends on the extreme right, or what remains of it, to support her aspirations. Dick Cheney never talked when he was vice president, and now he does not stop talking. Liz Cheney goes even further, with dozens of television interviews, and sometimes via the Wall Street Journal, whose opinion page is run by neoconservatives. One journalist did the figures: 12 television interviews on four networks in nine and a half days. Kristol is an old-time Zionist, who inherited evil from his father, Irving. All of his opinions and policies are a cover for full loyalty to Israel. He advocated a war against Iraq in the 1990s, and years before the terror of 11 September 2001. The terror furnished an excuse for an administration whose president was ignorant and stupid; the neoconservatives, along with Bush, carried out what they had been unable to do under the elder Bush, and, after him, Bill Clinton. Today, Liz Cheney and William Kristol have established something called “Keep America Safe,” and gone further with their shamelessness and vulgarity than the old neoconservatives; they attacked the Justice Department attorneys who defended Guantanamo inmates and dubbed them The Qaida Seven. They called the Justice Department the Department of Jihad, which prompted other neoconservatives to condemn their extremism after a counter-attack was launched on their exaggerations. They want to deprive the accused of the right to defend himself, even though the overwhelming majority of Guantanamo inmates were never charged with anything in the end, not to speak of being found guilty. Liz Cheney now depends on Randy Scheunemann to advise her on foreign policy; he is another Israeli apologize and neo-con. Everyone accuses Barack Obama of encouraging terror because he refuses the extremists' motto of “we are in a state of war” and is trying to get out of wars that were begun by the Bush administration. All were lost, especially the war on terror, as it increased terror around the world and create new enemies of the US. It made Europeans themselves say that America was a threat to world peace. Liz Cheney attacked Obama recently because of an agreement with Russia to reduce their nuclear weapons stockpiles. In the 1990s, William Kristol and Robert Kagan called for following “neo-Reaganite” policies, since Reagan was B-movie actor and a third-rate politician and the extreme right governed through him. Then came the opportunity with the stupid ignoramus Bush and the terror of 2001, to push the US toward a war against Iraq. The business motives of Dick Cheney coincided with the Israeli motives of the neoconservatives. If there is a common denominator in the climate of war cabal on the eve of the war on Iraq, and the conditions today, it is the political debauchery that we see today in the campaigns against Obama, because he rejects the “state of war,” and the US Department of Justice and attorneys. This reminds us of the exaggeration of intelligence information about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the cherry-picking of this information, as well as the rejection of varying or contradictory information; there was also the role of agents who were untrustworthy, like Ahmad Chalabi, who turned out to be a double, or triple agent. He dealt with Iran as he served the Americans, while they exploited him. The American commander in Iraq, Ray Odierno, said on the eve of the recent elections in Iraq that Chalabi “was an overt Iranian agent.” Thus, he tried, and is trying, to liquidate the Baath, as part of the Iranian agenda to prevent Iraq's Sunnis from playing an active role in political life. In this way, Iraq will not be an American colony, but an Iranian one. I think we are seeing a return to the scenario of the 1990s scenario from the enemies of the Arabs of Muslims, and the resulting catastrophes of the following decade. I am afraid that we have not learned any lessons and are doomed to repeat this scenario. [email protected]
