Dick Cheney, 'Architect of War,' Gets BBC Obit — No War Crimes Mentioned
BBC World hails Dick Cheney as the 'Washington insider' whose 'vast experience' led the 'war on terror.' What they politely omit is his equally vast experience in Halliburton's executive suites, raking in billions from the very wars he championed. The man who orchestrated the invasion of Iraq—a war based on fabricated WMD intelligence, a fact later thoroughly debunked by the intelligence
community—somehow bypasses any critical assessment of its human cost. Instead, we get a sanitized narrative of 'leadership' and 'influence.' One might wonder if the BBC's editorial board considered referencing the 2005 Plame affair, where Cheney's office was implicated in outing a covert CIA officer to discredit a critic of the Iraq War. Or perhaps Rumsfeld's famous 'known knowns' speech, drafted
under Cheney's watch, which rationalized ignoring inconvenient truths. This isn't journalism; it's a posthumous PR campaign for a historical figure whose policies led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and destabilized an entire region. Apparently, helping to lead a 'war on terror' means you never have to say you're sorry for the 'terror' you inflicted.