Mainstream Media Remembers Cheney's 'Critics' After His Death
Newsweek, in what can only be described as an exercise in euphemistic framing, acknowledged that Dick Cheney, upon his hypothetical demise, would face some 'critics.' (One might call them 'war crime historians.') This carefully curated sentiment overlooks the actual substance of those criticisms: an architect of a war based on fabricated intelligence, leading to hundreds of thousands dead and
destabilized regions, and the enthusiastic proponent of torture. (Remember 'enhanced interrogation' and programs now widely condemned?) While Newsweek gently notes his 'critics' reacting with 'rest in hell,' they conveniently gloss over the 2002 National Security Strategy, the invasion of Iraq for non-existent WMDs, and the revelations from the Senate Intelligence Committee's 2014 report detailing
the horrors of the CIA's detention and interrogation program. It's not just 'critics'; it's the factual record of policies that led to immense suffering, leaving us to wonder at what point 'controversial figure' becomes 'accountable for crimes against humanity' in mainstream discourse.