Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

A matter of sober concern that has not been thoroughly investigated and revealed to the public is the aggressive action on the part of Cheney concerning the Central Intelligence Agency.  

Cheney made an unprecedented number of visits to the Agency, more than any other vice president in American history, to coerce Middle East analysts there to skew intelligence to conform to his desire to present Iraq as possessing the kind of dangerous nuclear capability to justify military invasion.

There is also the issue of the infamous "13 words" that Bush delivered in a State of the Union Address concerning Iraq seeking Uranium yellow cake to assist in the manufacture of nuclear weapons.  

When Joseph Wilson visited Niger, the nation allegedly in contact with Saddam Hussein in connection with the allegedly sought yellow cake, and exposed the allegation as false, momentous political repercussions followed.

It was none other than Dick Cheney who made notes on the copy he read pertaining to Wilson's mission.  Eventually Wilson's wife, CIA weapons analyst Valerie Plame, was exposed in a political vendetta that severely compromised her activity and laid at risk her life as well as those with whom she was in contact.

Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby was pardoned by Bush following his conviction in a federal trial concerning his involvement in outing the former CIA analyst.  Libby has always been considered Cheney's eyes and ears, his right hand man.  

Was Cheney a non-participant in this vengeance plot that held severe potential repercussions, considering the importance and delicate activities in which Plame was involved?  Was Bush unaware of what was occurring when the plan was hatched and ultimately executed to reveal Plame's identity and CIA status?

Americans are already overwhelmingly opposed to the Iraq War according to all available polling.  How will these same Americans feel after learning about the subterranean plotting to invade Iraq in defiance of international law?

Don't we deserve to know much more about those secret meetings that former Halliburton CEO Cheney held in his office with top oil executives from his company, which still pays him while he serves in office, along with top oil elitists from other companies?  

Does the public deserve to know what happened during those meetings as well as their ultimate repercussions?  Do they also deserve to know about how Iraq's rich oil deposits were divided up before the first American bombs fell on Baghdad?

How about the profits that companies like Halliburton have made in Iraq?  What about the corporate rip-offs occurring there?  Does the public have a right to know about the nefarious dealings involved?  

Does the public have the right to hear in detail about all the missing dollars that taxpayers were compelled to pay that were sent to Iraq to help finance the war?  Do they deserve to know where their tax dollars went and for what ultimate purposes?

What about the privatization of warfare through the use of private contractor Blackwater in Iraq?  

Does the public have the right to know about how Blackwater functions, how its emissaries have conducted themselves in Iraq, and how much contributions from that same company into Republican Party coffers, including Bush-Cheney presidential campaigns, have influenced the company's role in the Iraq War?

There is also the matter of torture camps run at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, in which private contractors were used.  The watchful investigative eye of Seymour Hersh tipped off Americans and the world citizenry concerning the tragic activities occurring at the aforementioned detention camps.  

Do Americans deserve to know the full story of the tragedies that unfolded at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo?  

The ripple effect of even the tip of such glacial icebergs as exists in the tragic story of the Cheney-Bush Administration would be seismic.  

Considering the widespread scope of activity involved, the outrage on the part of Americans upon receiving such information would be predictably far greater than with Richard Nixon during the tragic seventies Watergate period.

Dennis Kucinich believes that Americans are entitled to know the full story involving the Iraq War and the maneuverings of Cheney, Bush and subordinates, along with the repercussions of those activities.  

Kucinich deserves the broad support of Americans in this effort to reveal the truth behind the activities of Cheney and Bush along with their culpable criminal agents amid the greatest series of tragedies committed by any administration in U.S. history.