Dick Cheney To Be Immortalized With Statue in US CapitolBy SM Gibson Not all brutes are created equal, however,and many of the elected arelukewarm. Asdangerousas they are hypocritical, the tepid warmongers will boast about beingwar-weary and how they stand for the pursuit of peace whileaddressingthe American people. They will simultaneously vote yea on any resolution that results in bloodshed and theyll do it quickerthan you can press play on the song Bombs Over Baghdad on your iPod.These cowardly political snakes choose toask forgiveness from the dead rather than seekpermission from the living. But notDick Cheney. While Super PAC panhandlers point fingers and regurgitate a plethora of deceptions and mistakes surrounding past U.S. military conquests so as to wash the crimson stains from their blood-soaked hands in the view of the voting public the former vice president unapologetically allowsthe eternal blood of innocents to flowdown his arms with both middle fingers raised high in the sky. As Cheney famously saidin reference to the Iraq War on Meet The Press in 2006,If we had to do it over again we would do exactly the same thing. In 2014, while speaking with Megyn Kelly, Dick Cheney said,I think we went into Iraq for very good reasons,also notinghe fundamentally disagreeswith the commonview thatit was a mistake to invade the Middle East. Cheney continues to echo his unabashed lack of remorseover his administrations decision to intervene inthe ancient land of Babylon evento this day :It was the right thing to do then. I believed it then and I believe it now,he saidin an interview with CNNin Augustof this year. No apologies, he added. And howdoes Congress choose to scoldthe actions and pomposity of Dick, thesuit-and-necktie-clad barbarian? By honoringhim with a bustinside the U.S. Capitol building, of course. A concurrent resolution authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center for the unveiling of the marble bust of Vice President Richard Cheney on December 3, 2015was passed by the U.S. Senate on November 5th. The Senate resolution is sponsored by Roy Blunt [R-MO]and co-sponsored by MitchMcConnell [R-KY],Harry Reid [D-NV], and ChuckSchumer [D-NY]. And they say bipartisanship is a pipe dream. How comforting it is to know that both sides of the aisle can put their differences asideto canonize the man who in 1999 said, Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East, with two-thirds of the worlds oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies, even though companies are anxious for greater access there, progress continues to be slow. Cheney is undoubtedly one of the principal parties responsible for helping speed up thatprocess. Despite the political hyperbole criticizing Cheneys braggadocios warmongering ways from republicans AND democrats, they still agree on commemorating him. How neat. The practice of honoring former vice presidents with busts in the Capitol building began in 1898 when the Senate passed a resolutionto codify it. Marble busts of those who have been Vice Presidents of the United States shall be placed in the Senate wing of the Capitol from time to time, [and] that the Architect of the Capitol is authorized, subject to the advice and approval of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, to carry into execution the object of this resolution,the resolution established. Although the thought of Dick Cheneys dismemberedhead beingdisplayed for tourists to visit may bring a grinto the lips of some of his detractors, it is doubtful his likeness immortalized in marble as a show of reverence will conjure the same reaction. This article (Dick Cheney To Be Immortalized With Statue in US Capitol) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to SM Gibson andtheAntiMedia.org. Anti-Media Radio airs weeknights at 11pm Eastern/8pm Pacific. If you spot a typo, email edits@theantimedia.org. They will be forced to put an armed guard there after repeated vandal attacks. Think the statue will crack if someone puts a bible in front of it? It wont ! Truly offensive If we must have a statue of Cheney, it should be out on the portico of the Capitol where the pigeons could heap their appreciation of Cheney on his twisted, snarling face. It could only be an improvement. Hope it gets destroyed, one way or another. DISGUSTING. The man is a criminal and should rot in prison the rest of his life 