Ultimate evil. PNAC no longer "exists" today openly, but 9/11 advanced their agenda by leaps and bounds. And I am not sure we can ever rein them in. But the future of the world depends on someone doing just that. America did stop the SPP so there is some hope we can do it. But that was before the shutdown of journalism in USA. Lou Dobbs deserves credit for stopping the SPP. But real journalists are rare and far between today.
A big thank you to Col. WIlkerson for having the courage to speak up. There must be MANY people who witnessed the crimes and evil that don`t dare breath a word of it out of fear.
He had a Heart Transpant from a 30 year old man who died in an accident. Cheney could live another 25 years. Before he was gasping for breath and nearing the end but the Transplant rejuvenated him and gives him a second chance at life with a healthy new heart.
Yes - is is still cashing in. His net worth is over $100 Mil. Halliburton stock price went up by more than 500% due to contracts Halliburton got from Cheney, money they have stole in Iraq and money that were stolen from US taxpayer.
Big Dick was sinister and ruthless in his manipulation of others, exercise of power, and duping of Dubya - though Junior was by no means an innocent player. As Wilkerson has said - from 2000 onward Cheney had no adult supervision and hence became unhinged in his exercise of power as de facto co-President in terms of US foreign policy, especially in his championing of the lies to get the highly costly Iraq invasion and occupation accomplished. In the end, he showed no remorse nor sense of guilt at all the death, destruction, chaos, and torpedoing of the US treasury he had unleashed. In a word - heartless!
Tsnore : I hope anyone who comes across this, and is fourteen, or eighteen, definitely sees the excellent documentary starring this despicable guy, by Errol Morris!
@@thomaspick4123 Yes, and that was while hunting for ground birds in Texas. He shot his friend in the face, and rumor has it he may have had a few cold ones before that outing.
I just wish he didn't feel like he had to use words few people ever use to sound smart. Colonel, you are smart, we know you are, so you don't need to do that.
Cody Polar his vocabulary is fine. It’s far better to surround yourself with people who assume their listeners’ intelligence rather than dumb themselves down assuming their ignorance.
People in and campaigning for public office should have to take a psychological evalutation to determine if they're a sociopath or psychopath, and those records should be made public. This needs to be permanent legislation and it should be top priority.
I get the sentiment but a problem arises when we look at potential outcomes from those who might be doing the analyzing. They may be paid off, the test might be rigged to favor a particular outcome, politics may heavily influence one's scrutiny, etc. Private Bone Spurs got out of the draft likely due to money and his doctoral summary of health was ridiculous to say the least so I remain completely skeptical this would work as any type of solution in our current system
The Achilles of this good idea is that according to a clinical psychologist’s segment I recently watched both sociopaths (definition: made, with some predispositions ) and psychopaths (definition: born, exhibiting traits in childhood & youth ) would intelligently remain composed and get around such screenings as they can with lie detectors. Keeping $$$ out in public office may be the way to keep them out.
ThrashManPoint If you guys, voters, looked into their publicly available history and funding instead of being whisked off your feet by their speeches or commentary in the MSM, you could decide for yourself. You'd require background information on any candidate applying for a job at your company or house so why does this attitude go out the window when it comes to electing someone to have authority over you? You guys elected an idiot like Bush. And then re-elected that criminal. You guys elected Obama because of his skin colour. And then re-elected that criminal. You guys elected Trump who is just the real ugly face of his predecessors. And he's still in power.
@@t814 I personally didn't and wouldn't vote for them so our points of view are quite similar. Most just don't care to do their research. Tribalism and corporate media's fluff pieces are also a major problem. So many interconnected issues to fix.
Young man at the Pentagon: "Mr. Vice President, there's a plane 50 miles out". "Mr. Vice President, it's 30 miles out". And then he came in and said, "It's now 10 miles out. Do the orders still stand?" VICE: "Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?"
Didn't the flight that hit the pentagon reportedly destroy the offices that were auditing at the time, the disappearance of 6 trillion dollars in defence spending? Was that a fact or does it seems bit far-fetched to think one could direct a plane at a building with such pinpoint accuracy?
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@@V12F1Demon Reportedly just means some dildo wrote it down or said it.
We must NOT forget what Cheney has done to our country, to our global reputation, and to our individual lives with things like the ill named Patriot Act. He was indeed a national power hungry and personal financial opportunist! "Evil" is a proper title for Cheney.
Another statement from the PNAC document "Rebuilding America's Defenses" is that the American public will never go for all the increased military actions and spending, unless there is a catastrophic and catalyzing event such as a new Pearl Harbor. A year later, we had our new Pearl Harbor in 9/11.
Janet Zampieri They just turn their need into other people's solution. All that's missing is the problem... Grow your own food. Get rid of smart meters.
Quite a Coincidence wasn’t it? The PNAC statement signed by Cheney and other Neocons and then what happened? 9/11! Then Weapons of Mass Destruction Lies then Iraq Bombing and Invasion!
angelou2812 The most popular games for a while now have been about glorifying evil behaviour. Nothing about creativity, altruism, natural strengths, exploration, nature, problem-solving, wonder etc. Instead it's all about conditioning young people to find murder and abuse entertaining and rewarding by making their avatars display joy and pleasure and rewarding such behaviour with praise, worthless money and status within the game. That's why they're not as strongly opposed to violence and corruption compared to previous generations. Because of the values quietly ingrained in them while parents are busy on their phones.
It's not only the entertainment that's at fault. People are thinking, well, the US being a violent bully has made it number one, so that must be good on the individual level too.
It seems hard to glorify that which you condemns when showing it on the screen. At least if you want it engaging, with dramatic ques, music and so on. The Wolf of Wall St was criticized for this. Nobody takes "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" as an indictment of war. I don't think this is inherent in cinema, but rather in popular cinema. You could leave out the flash, snappy dialogue, etc. But then you end up with boring "social realism." Even people who don't care for Bergman can admire him for his craft. They just don't turn up to watch his movies.
I was very disappointed that the movie never hinted that Cheney was in on 9-11, and that Rice lied about being informed by the FBI of the commercial airliner threat. And I watched Colin Powell's presentation to the UN. He was definitely into it and not hesitant. He has always been willing to do whatever necessary to ingratiate himself to power. The movie did not depict the depravity of these lying torturers who have caused so much suffering and death. They are so caught up in their own ego identities they can't get their heads out of their own a..... The movie was a whitewash.
I've literally had to take the last nine years of my life to actually search for the truth some what & what happened before I was born because they do not teach you the truth.
“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” ― General Smedley D. Butler
A very valuable discussion series. Thanks for making it happen TRN and especially Mr Wilkerson for being a man of integrity willing to speak the truth from a position of authority on the subject which is too rare.
The film didn't downplay the evil of his actions. It just didn't make him cartoonish and made an effort to portray many facets of his life. Not solely portraying his evil acts doesn't downplay those acts; if anything it makes them that much more chilling.
It's great film making and worth seeing. Been wanting to get Wilkerson's take on it. How about his boss, Powell selling this country on a illegal war and committing a kind of treason himself.
Quality video. One should remember though, that Powell wasn't above fault in the Iraq quagmire. He sold the invasion to the UN................prior to the invasion.
VICE was a pretty good movie but I think they sortof blew the bad side of Dick Cheney out of proportion a bit. I doubt in real life that’s how he’s like.
This video is incredible. "The Real News" is maybe the greatest source of interview journalism going today, and Paul Jay is knocking politics out of the park on a weekly basis it seems. I could not believe all the revelations and confirmations contained in this one video. Some of this should be at the top of the news on every network worldwide.
Cheney = 9/11 National Emergency = President for Life, the end result of 9/11 BTW, Paul, you forgot to mention the call for a Space Force to be fully operational by 2020, in the 92-pg PNAC document, in order to assure global US military “dominance.” If that is not the position of the Globalists, by definition, I cannot imagine what is.
I hope the movie covers Cheney's ties to the Moonies. I remember reading about this relationship in an underground newspaper in Portland, Oregon, long before Cheney was Vice President.
“We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.” ~ George Keenan, author of American Diplomacy (1951)
The landscape is such that someone like Adam McKay can make a movie about Dick Cheney and, through revisionism, soften him, even make him a figure of fun. I'm sure that there are serious elements in the movie, but every trailer I've seen is bedded by bright, comedic music and is cut for sharp one liners.
Yes, our economy has run on military Keynesianism since they saw how WW 2 could pull us out of the great depression. But Cheney accelerated the process. Before, we had wars from time to time, and a peacetime military all the time. But since Cheney, we have been at war all the time, with no good strategy for getting out, because the strategy was for us to never get out.
Just like Rumsfeld and Bush Jr., he's TRYING to make his legacy more palatable in the pages of history. We that lived through it know who they really are.
I saw Vice last night. I am familiar with his history, and all of the horrible things he has done. Why they needed a heart for someone who didn't have one amazes me, also why he never went to prison for war crimes. Satan himself sat next to me and was amazed how terrible he is.
"Adult supervision" was from imperialists serving the war machine. The only difference with Cheney may have been that he was overtly more self-serving than the others.
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The American people and even the world has no idea of the level of deception perpetrated on them. Co. Wilkerson sounds solid and clear for a 73 year young man. I wonder if he knows 911 was perpetrated on purpose by the deep state so we could stay in the middle east.
Christian Bale's face is too open and friendly to be a face of such apparent "evil". Bale's Cheney is like a chubby lovable bear. He is so human in those scenes with the daughters. And maybe the real Cheney is like that too, but you really can't see it from his public presence.
the thing I dont like about the movie is BOTH PARTIES have become more evil and they both take money from lobbyists. Creating MONEY to be made from politics. Not public servants. The Democrats are by no means innocent or better in any way. It is all over the place. We need people in office who want the job not the money.
Apparently this movie includes a line spoken by the Condoleeza Rize character telling us how displeased Isreel is with the war on Iraq. Truth is stranger than fiction.
This man is obviously well informed and to the point. What he says is shocking, not for its content as we suspected it before, but for explaining it so clearly and factually. But in the end... the strongest will always be right, even morally. That's a part of nature that even human beings won't escape from.
LoL, "wise" words from someone that seemingly didnt catch that he fucking worked there when it happened! "the strongest will always be right, even morally." Hahaha, what a dumb statement. Its also wrong.
I don't think GW Bush is a bad dude, but he was clueless and scarily uninformed.I remember watching many of his interviews and press conferences and he NEVER could speak about ANY issue in a knowledgeable or substantive way. He only delivered talking points and was incapable of expanding on his views in any coherent manner. When he got off script he would say things like: "...I looked into his soul..."(referring to Putin). I think the real sin of GW is that he did not want to know. He embraced his in-curiosity and was satisfied with just playing the role of president
Imagine if this guy was never born, if there was no attempt to invade Iraq, which never lead to the rise of ISIS, which never resulted in one of the largest number of people attempting to migrate and which never resulted in one of the most politically divided periods in our history
Cheny was not all evil. People have the capability to do great evil, but even the most evil actors can still have non-evil qualities. To portray Cheny as someone who supported his daughter when it wasn't too inconvenient gives credibility to the film.
What astonishes me, still, that year after year, aware guys like Wilkerson still call the Military Industrial Complex "defense" contractors , , not warmongers, not war profiteers, not war criminals. This is cognitive dissonance at its worst.
I almost choked when I heard Whoopi Goldberg trying to equate class and dignity with the Bush administration as opposed to the current Trump administration. That lesser of 2 evils bull#$$%^! is insulting to one's intelligence.
Cheney may not get to sit at the head table with Hitler and Stalin, but he sure gets access to the facilities at the same country club... Hard to imagine a punishment harsh enough for him.
Because they don't want to be puppets and cannot be effectively honest. They have too many handlers. False stories will be planted to ruin them and maybe assassination.
And yet Americans time after time vote for these people. So in the end it's the American people that are responsible not these individuals like Trump, Cheney, Bush etc.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Average Americans have zero voting power. We have no control over the media, who present us with our choices. We ,by law, lack any financial leverage whatsoever throughout the electoral and political process. The best we can do is work with whatever minimal electoral power we have via making our voice heard.
@@jamesdragonforce Americans blame anybody but themselves because people like you come along and say don't bother, you have zero voting power. Americans are given a choice from local elections to federal elections. That they don't take advantage of that right is their responsibility. nobody elses. The moral of the story is, if you don't get involved, others that do will, and because of that they always be in control. Your fault not theirs. Simple. BTW AHole, "You have no idea what you’re talking about."
There were two major problems the Democrats had in smearing Richard Cheney. First, they have nothing on him (and no, just because the Left fascists lost their favorite dictator because of him doesn't make him "evil"). Second, Cheney worked for Bill Clinton in Bosnia, which was completely ignored in the film. Saying bad things about Cheney meant saying bad things about Clinton.
What an excellent interview and fun way to laugh at ourselves from the perspective of the most despised despicable creature to have walked across our political stage...Along the lines of the old Steve Allen show that brought various characters to a table for conversation...I'd love to have had a young undrugged Hinter S. Thomas writing about Dick Cheyney. I see them having an interview while shooting.
The process is laid out in NSC-68 and after the fall of the Soviet Union The Project for a New American Century “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” resets the course.
To get out of this mess, leading public officials must wear the latest lie detector and mind-reading technology, linked to a panel of psychologists and scientists from all political stripes. This panel will eliminate any irrelevant personal detail ber for this information goes public.This panel will wear mind-reading technology, linked directly to public viewing while receiving comments selected for investigative panels and the public.
it was not an attenuation of DIck's evil. The movie only shows the whole person and his history behind. I was impressed by his bureaucratic acumen and skills in manipulating the system to change it. and if you are a politician who wants to pass civil rights legislation, fight against climate change, reform police, and offer medicare for all you NEED to use his methods although not his values
Is this movie an attempt to prep the masses for Cheney's return to the forefront of American politics? Bolton's return along with the movie... the writing is on the wall
all the earth full of gold will not saved those killers on the day of judgment when they enter hell fire ... there is no justice in this word but God the just God and he will make full justice for those oppressed in this life on the day of judgment in the next life.
Exactly what I suspected. The movie was whitewashed into a sympathetic character study, that paid no attention to the direct connection that Cheney had to the atrocities that came before 2001, 9/11 itself and the wars that followed. As if he was a “good” guy, who was simply ambitious. Sad.
I don't know if Rome ever had this self-awareness (they certainly didn't have the Internet to disseminate dissent), but if we've been an official empire for 19 years, then we could make history if we dismantle it by 2021. We could beat the Curse of Rome. The American Empire could be one of the shorter-lived ones that was stopped by its own people. That's history worth making.
I don't think Mr Cheney is evil at all. I think he's an individual that reacts accordingly to the present environment. What would have any other vice president have done during a situation like 9/11 ?
Wish the interviewer would let his guest speaker speak more instead of injecting his points of reference whether the script or actual events. I believe the General could have spoke more to the truth of Dick Cheney had he been allowed to. Especially since the general was there instead of in a Starbucks reading reports. Just saying.
This is depressing. It sucks being a moderately observant, intelligent, and informed American in this era of "imperial overreach to the max." It's like being a goose that's aware of being roasted. Sometimes I wish I could just grab a partisan hat and get real stupid -- just honk along to daily distractions like most of the country -- not wondering why it's getting so damn warm in here.
Stop following and allowing leaders to do the things they do to us and abroad . These people are supposed to our public servants and they must serve us , the common everyday people . Stop believing they have our best interests in their hearts, minds and actions without being accountable to us, the common people . The vast majority of the people hear and abroad would never let these leaders do the things they do . The vast majority of us here and around the world want peace with our neighbors down the street and across the world . THEIR MUST BE TRANSPARENCY IN A DEMOCRACY SURVEILLING CONSTANTLY WHAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS FROM BOTTOM TO TOP !!! what we have is surveillance on the billions of us on planet earth who want peace, love and joy .
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"Cheney was evil." Sums it up pretty quickly.
Ultimate evil. PNAC no longer "exists" today openly, but 9/11 advanced their agenda by leaps and bounds. And I am not sure we can ever rein them in. But the future of the world depends on someone doing just that.
America did stop the SPP so there is some hope we can do it. But that was before the shutdown of journalism in USA. Lou Dobbs deserves credit for stopping the SPP. But real journalists are rare and far between today.
Cheney is evil.
That's really all you have to say.
Then why even bother with 20 minute video.
@@pathacker4963 who is the PNAC?
A big thank you to Col. WIlkerson for having the courage to speak up. There must be MANY people who witnessed the crimes and evil that don`t dare breath a word of it out of fear.
What crimes?
Was evil? He's...still evil. He's still here,spreading death and cashing in.
I haven't kept up... what is he doing now?
He had a Heart Transpant from a 30 year old man who died in an accident.
Cheney could live another 25 years.
Before he was gasping for breath and nearing the end but the Transplant rejuvenated him and gives him a second chance at life with a healthy new heart.
Exactly!
Yes - is is still cashing in. His net worth is over $100 Mil. Halliburton stock price went up by more than 500% due to contracts Halliburton got from Cheney, money they have stole in Iraq and money that were stolen from US taxpayer.
Does he do anything but write books?
Cheney killed 1.5 million people but he's still not in prison.
He is now. Ding Dong....the Dick is dead.
exactly
Big Dick was sinister and ruthless in his manipulation of others, exercise of power, and duping of Dubya - though Junior was by no means an innocent player. As Wilkerson has said - from 2000 onward Cheney had no adult supervision and hence became unhinged in his exercise of power as de facto co-President in terms of US foreign policy, especially in his championing of the lies to get the highly costly Iraq invasion and occupation accomplished. In the end, he showed no remorse nor sense of guilt at all the death, destruction, chaos, and torpedoing of the US treasury he had unleashed. In a word - heartless!
in another word...psychopath!
In other words can we utilize the Executive Order our Prez. Signed in 2007 to utilize an asset forfeiture of everything he has?
Tsnore : I hope anyone who comes across this, and is fourteen, or eighteen, definitely sees the excellent documentary starring
this despicable guy, by Errol Morris!
@@thomaspick4123 Yes, and that was while hunting for ground birds in Texas. He shot his friend in the face, and rumor has it he may have had a few cold ones before that outing.
When you look into Cheney's face you can see pure evil
Carmel Roach He is called Darth Vader not for nothing!!!
Colonel Wilkerson is great. Love listening to his interviews.
I just wish he didn't feel like he had to use words few people ever use to sound smart. Colonel, you are smart, we know you are, so you don't need to do that.
Cody Polar his vocabulary is fine. It’s far better to surround yourself with people who assume their listeners’ intelligence rather than dumb themselves down assuming their ignorance.
@@SusanHopkinson
Yes, not enough people do that. Dumbing down is catering to the worst aspects of the audience.
@@codypolar6593 im not sure if i heard any elevated vocabulary here
People in and campaigning for public office should have to take a psychological evalutation to determine if they're a sociopath or psychopath, and those records should be made public. This needs to be permanent legislation and it should be top priority.
I get the sentiment but a problem arises when we look at potential outcomes from those who might be doing the analyzing. They may be paid off, the test might be rigged to favor a particular outcome, politics may heavily influence one's scrutiny, etc. Private Bone Spurs got out of the draft likely due to money and his doctoral summary of health was ridiculous to say the least so I remain completely skeptical this would work as any type of solution in our current system
The Achilles of this good idea is that according to a clinical psychologist’s segment I recently watched both sociopaths (definition: made, with some predispositions ) and psychopaths (definition: born, exhibiting traits in childhood & youth ) would intelligently remain composed and get around such screenings as they can with lie detectors. Keeping $$$ out in public office may be the way to keep them out.
ThrashManPoint If you guys, voters, looked into their publicly available history and funding instead of being whisked off your feet by their speeches or commentary in the MSM, you could decide for yourself. You'd require background information on any candidate applying for a job at your company or house so why does this attitude go out the window when it comes to electing someone to have authority over you? You guys elected an idiot like Bush. And then re-elected that criminal. You guys elected Obama because of his skin colour. And then re-elected that criminal. You guys elected Trump who is just the real ugly face of his predecessors. And he's still in power.
@@adyear3168 I completely agree
@@t814 I personally didn't and wouldn't vote for them so our points of view are quite similar. Most just don't care to do their research. Tribalism and corporate media's fluff pieces are also a major problem. So many interconnected issues to fix.
Young man at the Pentagon: "Mr. Vice President, there's a plane 50 miles out".
"Mr. Vice President, it's 30 miles out".
And then he came in and said, "It's now 10 miles out. Do the orders still stand?"
VICE: "Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?"
That was regarding Flight 93, well after Flight 77 hit the Pentagon.
It's almost like the Bush administration was responsible for 911.
Didn't the flight that hit the pentagon reportedly destroy the offices that were auditing at the time, the disappearance of 6 trillion dollars in defence spending? Was that a fact or does it seems bit far-fetched to think one could direct a plane at a building with such pinpoint accuracy?
@@V12F1Demon Reportedly just means some dildo wrote it down or said it.
But they never fired one bit of defense.
We must NOT forget what Cheney has done to our country, to our global reputation, and to our individual lives with things like the ill named Patriot Act. He was indeed a national power hungry and personal financial opportunist! "Evil" is a proper title for Cheney.
Another statement from the PNAC document "Rebuilding America's Defenses" is that the American public will never go for all the increased military actions and spending, unless there is a catastrophic and catalyzing event such as a new Pearl Harbor. A year later, we had our new Pearl Harbor in 9/11.
Janet Zampieri They just turn their need into other people's solution. All that's missing is the problem... Grow your own food. Get rid of smart meters.
Quite a Coincidence wasn’t it? The PNAC statement signed by Cheney and other Neocons and then what happened? 9/11! Then Weapons of Mass Destruction Lies then Iraq Bombing and Invasion!
The glorification of evil. The speed at which the trailer is set is like violence for addicts. Disgusting.
angelou2812 The most popular games for a while now have been about glorifying evil behaviour. Nothing about creativity, altruism, natural strengths, exploration, nature, problem-solving, wonder etc. Instead it's all about conditioning young people to find murder and abuse entertaining and rewarding by making their avatars display joy and pleasure and rewarding such behaviour with praise, worthless money and status within the game. That's why they're not as strongly opposed to violence and corruption compared to previous generations. Because of the values quietly ingrained in them while parents are busy on their phones.
It's not only the entertainment that's at fault. People are thinking, well, the US being a violent bully has made it number one, so that must be good on the individual level too.
It seems hard to glorify that which you condemns when showing it on the screen. At least if you want it engaging, with dramatic ques, music and so on. The Wolf of Wall St was criticized for this. Nobody takes "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" as an indictment of war. I don't think this is inherent in cinema, but rather in popular cinema. You could leave out the flash, snappy dialogue, etc. But then you end up with boring "social realism." Even people who don't care for Bergman can admire him for his craft. They just don't turn up to watch his movies.
I was very disappointed that the movie never hinted that Cheney was in on 9-11, and that Rice lied about being informed by the FBI of the commercial airliner threat. And I watched Colin Powell's presentation to the UN. He was definitely into it and not hesitant. He has always been willing to do whatever necessary to ingratiate himself to power. The movie did not depict the depravity of these lying torturers who have caused so much suffering and death. They are so caught up in their own ego identities they can't get their heads out of their own a..... The movie was a whitewash.
jim Silva yup
He had me at, "Cheney was evil!"
I've literally had to take the last nine years of my life to actually search for the truth some what & what happened before I was born because they do not teach you the truth.
It's so messed up eh
“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest,
easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one
international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in
dollars and the losses in lives.” ― General Smedley D. Butler
jesus fucking christ I've never hard such a high ranking military man talk about a still living POTUS like Wilkerson does fantastic.
A very valuable discussion series. Thanks for making it happen TRN and especially Mr Wilkerson for being a man of integrity willing to speak the truth from a position of authority on the subject which is too rare.
The film didn't downplay the evil of his actions. It just didn't make him cartoonish and made an effort to portray many facets of his life. Not solely portraying his evil acts doesn't downplay those acts; if anything it makes them that much more chilling.
Col. Wilkerson is doing us a great service with his insight and informed opinions.
Gen. Smedley Butler would, I'm sure, be proud.
Love your interviews, that's why I donate money to this station.😁😁
Dick would love this movie. Which is my main issue with it. It's a watered down CIA-approved film.
It's a start.
Mind-blowing interview.
Never stop searching and learning and understanding what's is and isn't.
It's great film making and worth seeing. Been wanting to get Wilkerson's take on it. How about his boss, Powell selling this country on a illegal war and committing a kind of treason himself.
20:20 the Colonol said it all. "They're defending the system."
Never again will we see the common man in a position of power.
Quality video. One should remember though, that Powell wasn't above fault in the Iraq quagmire. He sold the invasion to the UN................prior to the invasion.
Very insightful perspectives and reflection on Modern American history! Thank you as always Real News Network!
jjutt87 UK went along with this.
@@t814 no doubt, partners in crime.
VICE was a pretty good movie but I think they sortof blew the bad side of Dick Cheney out of proportion a bit. I doubt in real life that’s how he’s like.
This video is incredible. "The Real News" is maybe the greatest source of interview journalism going today, and Paul Jay is knocking politics out of the park on a weekly basis it seems. I could not believe all the revelations and confirmations contained in this one video. Some of this should be at the top of the news on every network worldwide.
THIS is what needs to be heard and discussed rather than the yellow press nonsense nobody even seems to recognize as such anymore. Thank you!
Cheney = 9/11
National Emergency = President for Life, the end result of 9/11
BTW, Paul, you forgot to mention the call for a Space Force to be fully operational by 2020, in the 92-pg PNAC document, in order to assure global US military “dominance.”
If that is not the position of the Globalists, by definition, I cannot imagine what is.
I hope the movie covers Cheney's ties to the Moonies. I remember reading about this relationship in an underground newspaper in Portland, Oregon, long before Cheney was Vice President.
I love your channel and everything it stands for, even if I find it all so depressing. 😩
“We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.” ~ George Keenan, author of American Diplomacy (1951)
Didn't know about that.
Just watched the movie. I agree it underplayed the situation. It's likely to prevent libel suits against the film makers.
The landscape is such that someone like Adam McKay can make a movie about Dick Cheney and, through revisionism, soften him, even make him a figure of fun. I'm sure that there are serious elements in the movie, but every trailer I've seen is bedded by bright, comedic music and is cut for sharp one liners.
Yes, our economy has run on military Keynesianism since they saw how WW 2 could pull us out of the great depression. But Cheney accelerated the process. Before, we had wars from time to time, and a peacetime military all the time. But since Cheney, we have been at war all the time, with no good strategy for getting out, because the strategy was for us to never get out.
“Cheney was evil”, straight for the throat. I like it.
They were indeed the Wizard of Oz ticket - Bush needed a brain, and Cheney a heart.
Just like Rumsfeld and Bush Jr., he's TRYING to make his legacy more palatable in the pages of history. We that lived through it know who they really are.
I saw Vice last night. I am familiar with his history, and all of the horrible things he has done. Why they needed a heart for someone who didn't have one amazes me, also why he never went to prison for war crimes. Satan himself sat next to me and was amazed how terrible he is.
If the host hadn't have said his name I would've thought it was Matt Lauer with a beard
"Adult supervision" was from imperialists serving the war machine. The only difference with Cheney may have been that he was overtly more self-serving than the others.
The American people and even the world has no idea of the level of deception perpetrated on them. Co. Wilkerson sounds solid and clear for a 73 year young man. I wonder if he knows 911 was perpetrated on purpose by the deep state so we could stay in the middle east.
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"It's a wonderful life" would of been a very different movie, had Cheney been the main character.
Sam Rockwell not getting the Golden Globe for playing Bush is almost as criminal as the Bush Administration.
Christian Bale's face is too open and friendly to be a face of such apparent "evil". Bale's Cheney is like a chubby lovable bear. He is so human in those scenes with the daughters. And maybe the real Cheney is like that too, but you really can't see it from his public presence.
SHit good interview. Subbed
That Rome comparison to our nation's system now was great.
the thing I dont like about the movie is BOTH PARTIES have become more evil and they both take money from lobbyists. Creating MONEY to be made from politics. Not public servants. The Democrats are by no means innocent or better in any way. It is all over the place. We need people in office who want the job not the money.
colonel Wilkerson was portrayed by David fabrizio
Project for a New American Century; New Pearl Harbor; Cheney was embroiled and behind the scenes furthered this:
The biggest question??? Why is he not behind bars!!!???
Hanging from a lamp post even.
Apparently this movie includes a line spoken by the Condoleeza Rize character telling us how displeased Isreel is with the war on Iraq. Truth is stranger than fiction.
One a side note: Wilkerson is incredibly eloquent.
Did he just say he “didn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground”? I’ve liked Wilkerson for a while but even more so now.
Me two.
Wilkerson hit the nail on the head when he doubted if USA (and the world) would ever recover. It won't.
This man is obviously well informed and to the point. What he says is shocking, not for its content as we suspected it before, but for explaining it so clearly and factually.
But in the end... the strongest will always be right, even morally. That's a part of nature that even human beings won't escape from.
LoL, "wise" words from someone that seemingly didnt catch that he fucking worked there when it happened! "the strongest will always be right, even morally." Hahaha, what a dumb statement. Its also wrong.
Cheney and this story is the peak of the start of all that has led us to where we are today, when the GOP had finally crossed all the lines
I don't think GW Bush is a bad dude, but he was clueless and scarily uninformed.I remember watching many of his interviews and press conferences and he NEVER could speak about ANY issue in a knowledgeable or substantive way. He only delivered talking points and was incapable of expanding on his views in any coherent manner. When he got off script he would say things like: "...I looked into his soul..."(referring to Putin). I think the real sin of GW is that he did not want to know. He embraced his in-curiosity and was satisfied with just playing the role of president
Paul spoke of the most significant facts about Cheney at the end of the video which Wilkerson confirmed. Yeah Paul!
Imagine if this guy was never born, if there was no attempt to invade Iraq, which never lead to the rise of ISIS, which never resulted in one of the largest number of people attempting to migrate and which never resulted in one of the most politically divided periods in our history
Cheny was not all evil. People have the capability to do great evil, but even the most evil actors can still have non-evil qualities. To portray Cheny as someone who supported his daughter when it wasn't too inconvenient gives credibility to the film.
Hitler loved his dog, but he was still Hitler at the end of the day. I don't buy it.
What astonishes me, still, that year after year, aware guys like Wilkerson still call the Military Industrial Complex "defense" contractors , , not warmongers, not war profiteers, not war criminals. This is cognitive dissonance at its worst.
He eludes to the Roman Empire at one point. As history reminds us, that empire eventually collapsed.
I almost choked when I heard Whoopi Goldberg trying to equate class and dignity with the Bush administration as opposed to the current Trump administration. That lesser of 2 evils bull#$$%^! is insulting to one's intelligence.
Cheney may not get to sit at the head table with Hitler and Stalin, but he sure gets access to the facilities at the same country club... Hard to imagine a punishment harsh enough for him.
Why is it that persons who are qualified to be president never consider running?
D.L. Bearden Because they know the system is corrupt.
Because they don't want to be puppets and cannot be effectively honest. They have too many handlers. False stories will be planted to ruin them and maybe assassination.
I love the former Vice President. I wish we had Cheney as our president for 8 years.
And yet Americans time after time vote for these people. So in the end it's the American people that are responsible not these individuals like Trump, Cheney, Bush etc.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Average Americans have zero voting power. We have no control over the media, who present us with our choices. We ,by law, lack any financial leverage whatsoever throughout the electoral and political process. The best we can do is work with whatever minimal electoral power we have via making our voice heard.
@@jamesdragonforce Americans blame anybody but themselves because people like you come along and say don't bother, you have zero voting power.
Americans are given a choice from local elections to federal elections. That they don't take advantage of that right is their responsibility. nobody elses.
The moral of the story is, if you don't get involved, others that do will, and because of that they always be in control. Your fault not theirs.
Simple.
BTW AHole, "You have no idea what you’re talking about."
Who did you vote for in the last presidential election?@@MrStringybark
Why the hell is the director talking about him like he's a martyr? He's a damn war criminal who should be in jail
I love this channel!
I loved Vice. And I gotta say, the more the movie tried to make Cheney look evil, the more I liked him. I’m sorry. It’s true.
this review was an EXPERIENCE.
He was Machiavellian, to be as polite as possible.
"which terror attack would you allow to go unchecked so you don't look like a mean and nasty fella",
There were two major problems the Democrats had in smearing Richard Cheney. First, they have nothing on him (and no, just because the Left fascists lost their favorite dictator because of him doesn't make him "evil"). Second, Cheney worked for Bill Clinton in Bosnia, which was completely ignored in the film. Saying bad things about Cheney meant saying bad things about Clinton.
The real life Darth Plagueis that didn't die.
What an excellent interview and fun way to laugh at ourselves from the perspective of the most despised despicable creature to have walked across our political stage...Along the lines of the old Steve Allen show that brought various characters to a table for conversation...I'd love to have had a young undrugged Hinter S. Thomas writing about Dick Cheyney. I see them having an interview while shooting.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The process is laid out in NSC-68 and after the fall of the Soviet Union The Project for a New American Century “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” resets the course.
To get out of this mess, leading public officials must wear the latest lie detector and mind-reading technology, linked to a panel of psychologists and scientists from all political stripes. This panel will eliminate any irrelevant personal detail ber for this information goes public.This panel will wear mind-reading technology, linked directly to public viewing while receiving comments selected for investigative panels and the public.
it was not an attenuation of DIck's evil. The movie only shows the whole person and his history behind. I was impressed by his bureaucratic acumen and skills in manipulating the system to change it. and if you are a politician who wants to pass civil rights legislation, fight against climate change, reform police, and offer medicare for all you NEED to use his methods although not his values
Cheney think he is safe but he will be punished for his crimes. He will spend the rest of his life in a small prison cell with the rest of them.
When money equates to power, VIRTUE is as good as dead.
Is this movie an attempt to prep the masses for Cheney's return to the forefront of American politics? Bolton's return along with the movie... the writing is on the wall
all the earth full of gold will not saved those killers on the day of judgment when they enter hell fire ... there is no justice in this word but God the just God and he will make full justice for those oppressed in this life on the day of judgment in the next life.
But ..until we all die...how about we clean up the mess, today....?
Exactly what I suspected. The movie was whitewashed into a sympathetic character study, that paid no attention to the direct connection that Cheney had to the atrocities that came before 2001, 9/11 itself and the wars that followed. As if he was a “good” guy, who was simply ambitious. Sad.
Naahhh.. that movie proved how evil he was.
Are there enlightened intelligent Americans that are unaware that Cheney was at the very center of the false-flag operation referred to as 9/11?
I don't know if Rome ever had this self-awareness (they certainly didn't have the Internet to disseminate dissent), but if we've been an official empire for 19 years, then we could make history if we dismantle it by 2021. We could beat the Curse of Rome. The American Empire could be one of the shorter-lived ones that was stopped by its own people. That's history worth making.
It started arguably in 1898. But definitely after WWII with organisations like the IMF and the CIA.
On the left.. you get David Axelrod
I don't think Mr Cheney is evil at all. I think he's an individual that reacts accordingly to the present environment. What would have any other vice president have done during a situation like 9/11 ?
That's nothing more than excusing a war criminal
Cheney is the closest thing to Stalin I have seen in my lifetime personalitywise. Next to him stands only Sadam.
Wish the interviewer would let his guest speaker speak more instead of injecting his points of reference whether the script or actual events. I believe the General could have spoke more to the truth of Dick Cheney had he been allowed to. Especially since the general was there instead of in a Starbucks reading reports. Just saying.
Good discussion.
Cheney was acting as a president. Bush Jr. was just a front man.
This is depressing. It sucks being a moderately observant, intelligent, and informed American in this era of "imperial overreach to the max." It's like being a goose that's aware of being roasted. Sometimes I wish I could just grab a partisan hat and get real stupid -- just honk along to daily distractions like most of the country -- not wondering why it's getting so damn warm in here.
Paul you look cool with the facial hair. A bit disgruntled, but in a good way. (Maybe I'm just saying that because I have a similar look today.)
Ignatius Jacques Reilly It fills out his jaw area.
Stop following and allowing leaders to do the things they do to us and abroad . These people are supposed to our public servants and they must serve us , the common everyday people . Stop believing they have our best interests in their hearts, minds and actions without being accountable to us, the common people . The vast majority of the people hear and abroad would never let these leaders do the things they do . The vast majority of us here and around the world want peace with our neighbors down the street and across the world . THEIR MUST BE TRANSPARENCY IN A DEMOCRACY SURVEILLING CONSTANTLY WHAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS FROM BOTTOM TO TOP !!! what we have is surveillance on the billions of us on planet earth who want peace, love and joy .