Is Dick Cheney an Honest Man?

Lady Macbeth, trying to hide the truth, tells Macbeth: “ To bequile the time, look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.” Her words could well be directed to Dick Cheney.

Does anyone believe that Dick Cheney is an honest man?

Does anyone believe that Cheney did not influence the billions the US government gave to Halliburton, the company he was CEO of for six months and did such a good job they gave him a $20 million severance package … which he took.

This is the man who coerced the Once-Supreme Court and his duckhunting buddy Scalia into not coming clean about his several meetings with energy executives from such respected corporate giants as Enron when he was fashioning the Bush energy policy.

Does anyone believe Scalia acted without any political tinge, acted on wholly legal grounds when he decided to keep Cheney’s treacheries hidden from us.

Does anyone believe that Cheney’s duck hunting buddy on the Once-Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia, acted impartially on the case to make Cheney’s meeting with energy CEO’s available to the public?

If Cheney has nothing to hide from the public, why is he so obsessive about covering all his tracks while VP of the US and CEO of Haliburton? Why is Cheney continuing to hide in a Saddam-likespider hole when questions about his lingering connections to Halliburton cry for answers?

If Cheney is an honest man, why is it necessary to bring lawsuits against him just to attempt to get him to acknowledge his past behavior as the leader of the cancerous giant Haliburton and his current behavior as VP?

If Cheney is an honest man, why doesn’t Dubya instruct him to walk out from behind his veil of legal persiflage and reveal his innocence? But then Dubya would have to reveal his own questionable behavior while at Hearken Oil. It is a sorry time when our top two selected leaders must use the legal system to hide their actions from the public.

Cheney would do well to serve the rest of his term as VP Select of the US in several “undisclosed, secure locations”. The one Saddam vacated comes readily to mind.

Cheney does not wear well in the clear light of day. Cheney is finding increasingly difficult to “ look like the innocent flower” but is looking more like "the serpent under't".