Cheney: I can lie for war. You cannot investigate abuse.

In recent news Cheney agressively attacked the Obama administration’s decision to investigate the abuse of prisoners held by the C.I.A. He said the investigation should not happen because it was intensely partisan and politicized.
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Ahem, Mr Cheney when you and your autocratic government decided to lie in order to bring about a fraudulent war of destruction in Iraq, you appear convinced that these partisan and politicized actions were correct since they were directed by you and your cronies. As co-president it was okay for you to politize an invasion/mass destruction. On the other hand looking into illegal and horrible abuse of prisoners during the fraudulent war is, according to you, "bad" politicizing by the new legally elected government.

From his actions we see Cheney is having an extremely hard time giving up his position as the most powerful vice president in American history. He evidently was a co-president or a puppet master. The degree to which he behaves as if he were still in charge can be correlated by the degree to which he thinks he can still cloak his official actions. He illustrates the imperialism he practiced: How can you lesser ones look at what "I" -- mighty and righteous -- did? Does he want to keep his actions covered to keep his mind's view of his power intact? Can it be he knows his fellow citizens will not look favorably upon his secret practices? Can it be a crisis of his "conscience?" Is he trying to come to terms with mortality? Hard to imagine that, especially since this supremely pragmatic power-obsessed man has now amassed one of the great towering fortunes through the part played by his Haliburton Company in the war he contrived and the adjunct financial deals like Guantanamo, awarded outright -- with no bidding -- to Haliburton.

Can it be that Cheney keeps trying to control the "facts" because he fears conviction and time behind bars? Probably not. Due to the nature of our politics the too-bad thing is that his constant whinging, scolding and threatening will keep him safe just as his vast ill-begotten fortune will keep his descendants safe for hundreds of years. Meanwhile in America soldier graves increase. Growing steadily in number are other parts of his political legacy: desperately injured solders, the homeless and the abandoned poor. Iraqi people struggle with the destruction of their country and the massacre of their people, the thousands of injured survivors, the kind of horrors that can be healed -- if ever -- by time measured in centuries.