Dick Cheney...deja vu?

1.0 out of 5 stars Read most of it then threw it in the garbage, September 1, 2011
By
Vince "music/ Secret Service/Steelers fanatic" (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir (Hardcover)
Dick Cheney is a liar and a killer. What's more, his commitment to the unfinanced Iraq war and his unswerving devotion to cutting taxes for the rich and deregulating America's financial and commercial institutions helped put us where we are now. One clear illustration of Mr. Cheney's character was his role in the drama of CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband, Joe Wilson. Heck, he even shoots his friend and gets away with it!

Cheney always presents himself as a solid, rugged Westerner, a son of Wyoming where the license plates have a cowboy on them. But when it came to fighting in the Vietnam War, for which he was a potential draftee, Mr. Cheney had "other priorities."

Then there was his role at war profiteer Halliburton. Need I say more?


In regard to rewriting history to suit his own purposes, Dick Cheney has alot in common with former JFK Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine of "The Kennedy Detail" infamy (who looks remarkably like Cheney these days), who, like Cheney's weopons-of-mass-destruction fraud, falsely claimed that President Kennedy ordered the agents off his limousine in Tampa, which had deep ramifications for the trip four days later to Dallas on 11/22/63, despite the fact that he himself denied that this was true to myself, joining many of his more senior colleagues on this score.

But, alas, Cheney (and Blaine) had history to rewrite and money to make. Avoid this book. I am ashamed of myself for lining his pockets.



Dick Cheney: despised by the Secret Service, September 1, 2011
By
Vince Palamara "SECRET SERVICE/JFK/STEELERS/M... (South Park/Bethel Park, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir (Hardcover)
As someone who has interviewed many former secret Service agents, I am amazed at the large number who wax on about how much they liked President Bush's humor and, easy, down-to-Earth manner, yet, on the condition of anonymity, show utter contempt for his Vice President. What do they know that we don't?

In regard to rewriting history to suit his own purposes, Dick Cheney has alot in common with former JFK Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine of "The Kennedy Detail" infamy (who looks remarkably like Cheney these days), who, like Cheney's weopons-of-mass-destruction fraud, falsely claimed that President Kennedy ordered the agents off his limousine in Tampa, which had deep ramifications for the trip four days later to Dallas on 11/22/63, despite the fact that he himself denied that this was true to myself, joining many of his more senior colleagues on this score.

But, alas, Cheney (and Blaine) had history to rewrite and money to make.