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SexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months ago

🦀🦀 War criminal Dick Cheney dies 🦀🦀

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🦀🦀 War criminal Dick Cheney dies 🦀🦀

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Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies | CNN Politics
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Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 84.

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Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney.

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  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Gotta say I’m livid about that article synopsis

    helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions

    Really, that’s what we’re calling that now? Just a little ‘oopsie’ where nobody was culpable, not even the monsters leading the charge and fabricating the evidence?

    • RustyVenture [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      citations-needed The Always Stumbling US Empire

    • CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      The Iraq War was a success for the US. It achieved its minimalist goals of destabilizing the region, which still pays dividends to this day. I don’t think Syria would have fallen if not for ISIS, which the US invasion of Iraq basically created.

      https://hexbear.net/comment/6401253

      But, for AmeriKKKan politicians and journalists to admit that would be to reveal how evil they are.

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    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      What’s a little powell-propaganda between new Pearl Harbors?

      The group, the Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, was founded in 1997. Among its supporters were three Republican former officials who were sitting out the Democratic presidency of Bill Clinton: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz.

      In open letters to Clinton and GOP congressional leaders the next year, the group called for “the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from power” and a shift toward a more assertive U.S. policy in the Middle East, including the use of force if necessary to unseat Saddam.

      And in a report just before the 2000 election that would bring Bush to power, the group predicted that the shift would come about slowly, unless there were “some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor.”

      That event came on Sept. 11, 2001. By that time, Cheney was vice president, Rumsfeld was secretary of defense, and Wolfowitz his deputy at the Pentagon.

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    Its not fedposting if they’re already dead 🥳🥳

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netM
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      💅

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    It’s a tragedy that he lived this long

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      deleted by creator

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    crab-party Damn, this is a good day, someone check on Kamala, she must be mortified that her good friend is gone cri

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    party-blob part-of-history party-blob

    the-democrat “That’s sick! He may have been evil incarnate, but he was still a family man; a man of conviction; a man you could work with. You all should be ashamed of celebrating his death!”

    Lastly, I don’t usually think too much about coincidences, but on Sunday I had a clear, out-of-the-blue, thought of “Huh, Dick Cheney is still alive right? That fuckin’ sucks…” and I’m extra happy that I never have to have that thought again bloomer

  • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    Dick Cheney now gets to meet his biggest fan, Satan

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      Can’t wait for that South Park episode.

      (Are they still airing…?)

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    Finally some good fucking news. I needed that.

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    🎉🎉🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🥳🥳🥳

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    Ugh, it sucks that there are probably about to be a whole bunch of articles coming out mourning him and claiming that it’s not ok to celebrate his way too late death.

    Other than that, crab-party

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    When I was depressed, I once told myself that if I just stay alive long enough I would get to see the day Dick Cheney died. stalin-feels-good

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    sicko-crab sicko-crab sicko-crab sicko-crab sicko-crab sicko-crab

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    Democrats are gonna hold a really solemn funeral for the guy- or at least push for it, aren’t they

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      #dickanda forever

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    Wasn’t gonna have a drink today, but…

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    i bet his heart is still pumping though

    (he hadnt had a pulse since 2010 or something?)

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      Considering his heart issues him making it to his 80s at all was a medical anomaly. Only the good die young.

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