https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz07zlr58vvo

  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    And that's just from his tenure as VP. He was also the republican whip while he was in congress, white house chief of staff, and secretary of defense. His entire career is the most heinous shit for the worst of republicans. He's one of the guys who benefitted from Iran-Contra, shock therapy in former soviet countries, and so on.

    The worst part is, this is only the stuff we know of. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he knew about 9/11 before it happened but decided it would be good for business to have a pretense for plundering Afghanistan.

    • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 months ago

      For sure. We know the CIA/FBI both had multiple warnings of terrorist attacks inside the US. We can be absolutely sure Cheney was aware. Bush probably too. Definitely Bush's father would be reading and getting reports from his CIA pals. The question is basically how much sitting on their hands hoping it would be a "bad one" worthy of exploitation to do endless wars vs incompetence on US' part vs competence on the part of bin Laden, et al.

      I'm 100% not joking or memeing when I say I would not be surprised in the least if we found out one day that Bush Sr and W worked with Cheney and bin Laden family (old Bush family acquaintances/friends. Not necessarily with Osama, but the family), Saudi Arabia for sure, maybe Israel, this massive collaborative effort to "oops! They blew up some towers! Gotta do war now!"

      The "coincidences" and ties between the bin Ladens/Bushes is too deep and too on the nose to ignore. The second richest family in Saudi Arabia, dealing directly with a former CIA director, 2x VP, 1x POTUS and his son a governor and then fresh president at the time. And their son just happens to be the one who orchestrated a large attack that just happened to go basically fully through as planned, recorded, used as perfect propaganda to do everything Cheney and co had been dreaming of since like the 1970s post-Nixon.

      Come on, man!

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        4 months ago

        Dick Cheney is so evil I want to make a post that would get me banned and removed as a mod from hexbear.

        Just imagine it was really really funny.

        • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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          3 months ago

          Trying to imagine a ppbcheney post so vile even hexbear denounces you is actually funny, thanks for the prompt