Axios Praises Architect of War, Omits Million Dollar Conflicts
Mainstream media bids farewell to Dick Cheney, fondly calling him a 'polarizing force' who 'expanded the reach of his office' and 'helped drive the costly, unpopular Iraq War built on faulty intelligence.' (No kidding, Axios. Faulty intelligence that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and destabilized a region.) What they gloss over, with the subtlety of a Halliburton stock surge, are the
tangible benefits Cheney reaped from his 'impact.' Before becoming Vice President, Cheney was CEO of Halliburton, a company whose subsidiaries received billions in no-bid contracts during the very wars he championed. One might wonder if 'courage, honor, love, kindness'—as his family claims—also includes orchestrating conflicts from which your former company, and by extension your own investments,
profited immensely. This retrospective frames Cheney as merely an 'outspoken MAGA opponent,' side-stepping the uncomfortable fact that both his 'legacy' and his corporate connections laid the groundwork for today's military-industrial complex's endless buffet line. They show photos, but skip the profit reports. How very 'balanced' of them.