# Cheneys book comes out and he was right, every one else wrong
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [September 1, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857 "2011-09-01T17:19:33Z")
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### Author:  [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/1 "2011-09-01T17:19:33Z")
> **[Cheney book reveals internal battles](https://www.politico.com/story/2011/08/cheney-book-reveals-internal-battles-062032)**
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> He reportedly pulls no punches in his new memoir.
I don’t know if Great Debates is the place for this, but Cheney does cause a lot of heat.
Cheney’s book has come out , Condi was in over her head. Powell was not a team player and was forced out. The war in Iraq was fine and just. Waterboarding is not torture , besides we didn’t torture that many . Tenet was a big problem and caused trouble.
Cheney was right on in every case. He has no regrets.
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### Author:  [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/2 "2011-09-01T17:22:27Z")
> **[Former Powell Aide: Cheney Fears Prosecution For War Crimes](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lawrence-wilkerson-dick-cheney-book_n_943217)**
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> Former Powell Aide: Cheney Fears Prosecution For War Crimes
Wilkerson, Powell’s chief of staff, claims Cheney fears being put on trial for war crimes.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/3 "2011-09-01T17:53:54Z")
Does he reveal what he kept in that “man-sized safe?”
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### Author:  [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/4 "2011-09-01T18:00:02Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> Does he reveal what he kept in that “man-sized safe?”
Probably someone he shot in the face who DIDN’T survive and live to apologize for getting in the way of The Great Veep
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### Author:  [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/5 "2011-09-01T18:03:35Z")
Powell not a team player ? This is the guy who put it on paper that nothing happened at My Lay. This is the guy with the vial of anthrax at the UN, selling that shit like it was the Good News. You couldn’t find a yes-man more yessy if you hired a Thai hooker.
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Does he reveal what he kept in that “man-sized safe?”
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Presumably, his canopic jar.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/6 "2011-09-01T18:17:22Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> Does he reveal what he kept in that “man-sized safe?”
His phylactery.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/7 "2011-09-01T18:19:31Z")
> [@gonzomax](#):
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> I don’t know if Great Debates is the place for this, but Cheney does cause a lot of heat.
It could go either way, but I think this is more of a Pitting.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/8 "2011-09-01T18:23:12Z")
> [@gonzomax](#):
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> Cheney was right on in every case. He has no regrets.
Hell, even Albert Speer was willing to concede that mistakes were made.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/9 "2011-09-01T18:26:52Z")
> [@Kobal2](#):
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> Presumably, his canopic jar.
I absolutely loved it when it was revealed that he literally has no pulse.
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### Author:  [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/10 "2011-09-01T18:33:14Z")
> [@Ludovic](#):
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> I absolutely loved it when it was revealed that he literally has no pulse.
Was this by any chance reported by MSNBC?
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/11 "2011-09-01T18:36:21Z")
No, MSNBC reported that he rises at night to feed on the blood of the living. The artificial heart thing is pretty widely known amongst people who pay attention.
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/12 "2011-09-01T18:44:45Z")
> [@gonzomax](#):
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> [http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62032.html](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62032.html)
> I don’t know if Great Debates is the place for this, but Cheney does cause a lot of heat.
> Cheney’s book has come out , Condi was in over her head. Powell was not a team player and was forced out. The war in Iraq was fine and just. Waterboarding is not torture , besides we didn’t torture that many . Tenet was a big problem and caused trouble.
> Cheney was right on in every case. He has no regrets.
Awesome! I’m glad everything has been cleared up.
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### Author:  [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/13 "2011-09-01T18:44:45Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> No, MSNBC reported that he rises at night to feed on the blood of the living. The artificial heart thing is pretty widely known amongst people who pay attention.
I didn’t realize that an artificial heart prevented him from having a pulse. Is that really true or just a funny comment on the fact that his heart is augmented.
Also, so THAT’S where all my sister’s blood went!
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/14 "2011-09-01T18:54:10Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#):
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> I didn’t realize that an artificial heart prevented him from having a pulse. Is that really true or just a funny comment on the fact that his heart is augmented.
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> Also, so THAT’S where all my sister’s blood went!
It is literally a pulseless heart pump. He has to wear a special medical alert bracelet to inform people so that when he arrives in the ER after his next heart attack they won’t think something Lovecraftian is happening.
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### Author:  [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/15 "2011-09-01T18:57:21Z")
> **[Former Powell Chief of Staff: Cheney "Fears Being Tried as a War Criminal"](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/powell-chief-staff-col-larry-wilkerson-cheney-fears/story?id=14414226)**
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> Powell's former chief of staff reacts to Cheney's memoir and accuses Cheney of committing war crimes
here in Powell’s chief of staff on Cheney. he says Cheney is afraid to travel abroad because he could get put on trial for war crimes.
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### Author:  [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/16 "2011-09-01T19:11:21Z")
I don’t want to read the whole book. Does it reveal the formula for how much virgin blood is required to animate the dead?
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### Author:  [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/17 "2011-09-01T19:18:22Z")
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> I think Dick overshot the runway.
It’s the dry, understated quality that packs the punch.
Wow. Just wow.
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### Author:  [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/18 "2011-09-01T19:28:57Z")
[http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/wilkerson-we-talked-about-cheneys-office-like-they-were-nazis/](http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/wilkerson-we-talked-about-cheneys-office-like-they-were-nazis/)
More on Cheney from a Republican in the administration, not a Lib.,Wilkerson . Condi is slamming Cheney too.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/19 "2011-09-01T19:29:11Z")
Did he co-write this with his daughter (the non-gay one) who is carrying on Daddy’s legacy? He should have the decency to skulk away into a dark cave somewhere and never show his face in public again. But I guess “decency” and Cheney in the same sentence or thought is a non-starter.
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### Author:  [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheneys-book-comes-out-and-he-was-right-every-one-else-wrong/594857/20 "2011-09-01T19:36:54Z")
[http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/01/condoleezza-rice-fires-back-at-cheney-memoir/](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/01/condoleezza-rice-fires-back-at-cheney-memoir/)
Here is Condi and Powell responding disgustedly to Cheney’s rosy memoir. He always was a lying prick. Now he turns on his associates.
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