His blood-pump ("heart" just doesn't seem the proper word) might not continue to function long enough to see it, but this investigation *will* catch Cheney.
'Blackwater' by Jeremy Scahill, page 92:
Blackwater was born just as the military was in the midst of a massive unprecedented privatization drive that had begun in force during Dick Cheney's time as Defense Secretary, from 1989 to 1993, under George H. W. Bush. "In his first year in office, Cheney reduced military spending by $10 billion. He cancelled a number of complicated and expensive weapons systems, and reduced the number of troops from 2.2 million to 1.6 million. Year after year, from 1989 to 1993, the military budget shrank under Cheney," wrote Dan Briody in his book 'The Halliburton Agenda'. "The army depended very little on civilian contractors in the early 1990s and Cheney was inclined to change that..."
page 93:
By the time Al Clark, Erik Prince, and a handful of others began serious planning for what would become Blackwater in the mid-1990s, the military had been downsizing for years, and training facilities (Blackwater's only service, at first) were some of the casualties of that trend.
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The motive for all the war crimes was to manufacture a situation that would terrify the public into supporting Cheney's real agenda, privatization. He's just a common cheat who had access to uncommon means of committing petty fraud on an uncommon scale.
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