American Political Crime Families

Representative Elizabeth Cheney is having a difficult time of it these days with the Republicans attempting to remove her as the third ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. It is impossible to sympathize with her as she shares the views of her father Dick Cheney. If there is anything that can be learned from Greece, it is that political dynasties bring harm to a country. Current Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is an exception considering how well he is running the country.

Donald Trump has managed to maintain a high degree of influence within the Republican Party. That in itself is good. The problem however is he is still promoting conspiracy theories about winning the election which is not the case. In order to build a movement, the former President needs to abandon this immature behavior and begin building a program at the intellectual level.

Despite some misgivings about Trump at the present time, it is delightful to see Elizabeth Cheney squirm. Yes, Donald Trump acted badly in January when he failed to discourage the worst elements in his camp from attacking the capital. The fact is however, that Dick Cheney did much worse than that crowd at the capital.

Dick Cheney brought the neocons into the Bush administration. Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and others were his guys. The team that conceived the Iraq war was put together by Cheney. It helped that President Bush was a profoundly ignorant man totally unqualified for the Presidency.

The war on Iraq brought havoc and destruction. It brought about a civil war between Sunnis and Shi’ites. It opened the door for “Al Qaida in Mesopotamia” which was the forerunner to the Islamic State. It was this organization that conceived the horrors of beheading innocent people. The rise of the Islamic State proceeded with the practice of genocide against Shi’ites, Christians, and Yazidis.

Syria was the sequel to the Iraq war and is the sole responsibility of President Barack Obama. However, without the destabilization of Iraq there may never have been conflict in Syria and so everything that has come to pass in the Middle East is on Bush and Cheney. It was also Cheney’s neocons who conceived of the torture and abuse at the prison of Abu Ghraib.

The sadistic torture and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners was a moral disgrace and indicative of the psychopathic tendencies of the Bush-Cheney foreign policy team. In addition to the horrors of Abu Ghraib, the subsequent refugee crises (Iraqi and Syrian) that has flooded Europe is the responsibility of the Bush-Cheney administration.

It was under the Bush-Cheney administration that the roots of the conflict with Russia can be laid. The Russians were initially invited to participate in the invasion of Iraq. They declined to do so and were never forgiven by the Bush administration. The Bush-Cheney administration cynically invited other countries to participate in the Iraq invasions. They had no inclination to assign any other country real responsibilities.

The Bush-Cheney administration wanted to pretend that the Iraq war was an international coalition and could deny responsibility if things went badly as they did. The Bush family has no business seeking political power considering the legacy it left in Iraq. The Cheney family needs to be gone as well.

It is irrelevant if Elizabeth Cheney is right or wrong in voting to impeach Trump. What matters more is that she shared her father’s deranged foreign policy views. Granted, the attack on the capital in January was ugly, stupid, and an expression of barbarism. It was criminal activity that is being investigated and the participants will be prosecuted (rightfully so).

The destruction that Dick Cheney left in Iraq and throughout the Middle East and Europe that happened as a result of the 2003 invasion was much more hideous and evil than what took place at the capital. The last thing America needs is a reemergence of the neocons. For this reason, the Cheney crime family needs to be dislodged like the Bush crime family.

The Clinton crime family appears to be gone having been vanquished by Donald Trump in 2016. Donald Trump crushed the Clintons after he had crushed Jeb Bush in the Republican primaries earlier that year. Not too bad as Trump eliminated two crime families. Now it appears the Cheney crime family is being taken care of.

Only the Biden crime family has emerged unscathed. Fortunately, this appears to be a one term Presidency and the Bidens will have no political prospects when this one term is complete. The hypocrisy of the Democrats can be seen by the fact that they never tried to impeach Bush for the invasion of Iraq which was far worse than anything the Trump administration did. They also tried to impeach Trump nearly a year before the events at the capital last January.

If the Democrats were consistent they would be investigating Hunter Biden for his scandals. Consistency does not exist in politics. What distinguishes Donald Trump from the Bush, Cheney, Clinton, and Biden crime families is that he was and remains an outsider that was never part of the establishment.

Despite his flaws and mistakes, Donald Trump remains an alternative to the Democrats and the old Republican establishment. The recent tensions between the Biden administration and Russia indicates why Trump remains preferable to either the Democrats or the old Republicans. Elizabeth Cheney is a remnant of the war party in the Republican Party. Depriving her of any influence in the future of the party is a welcome development.