Actually the story starts far earlier than our man, Richard Bruce Cheney, roughly beginning in the middle of the past century: the takedown of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran in 1953 in a coup de'tat orchestrated by John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles and Winston Churchill through their dupe, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower:
The CIA has publicly admitted for the first time that it was behind the notorious 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, in documents that also show how the British government tried to block the release of information about its own involvement in his overthrow.
On the 60th anniversary of an event often invoked by Iranians as evidence of western meddling, the US national security archive at George Washington University published a series of declassified CIA documents.
"The military coup that overthrew Mosaddeq and his National Front cabinet was carried out under CIA direction as an act of US foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government," reads a previously excised section of an internal CIA history titled The Battle for Iran.
Cheney was around 13 years old at that time so he can't be guilty of that.
Events in Iran and other stuff below:
1953: Mohammad Mosaddeq kicked out; Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi installed.
1957: According to the Federation of American Scientists, U.S. and Israeli intelligence officers work with Iran to set up SAVAK, an Iranian intelligence organization later blamed for the torture and execution of thousands of political prisoners and violent suppression of dissent.
This is from a little piece I wrote in 2006:
What do you get when you rip the toenails and fingernails off some guy? What happens when you kick in all his teeth, beat the soles of his feet, taser him, imprison him for life? Under the U.S.-imposed reign of the Shah in Iran?
Whadya suppose you get, chump?
You get, when this guy is finally released from life imprisonment, after the much feared and hated (in the U.S.A. at least) Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini overthrows the much-hated U.S.-supported regime of the Shah, you get one very nasty and mean dude. Wooh! Is this guy ever, like, the supreme interrogator of Iranian intelligence.
And, you suppose this guy loves the U.S. and Israel? Huh, Chump? Ya think that?
So, Chumpy Boy, ya wanna use the Constitution of the United States for toilet paper, huh?
The concept of Habeas Corpus is quaint. The Geneva Conventions are piffle. So you say, Chumpy Boy, so you say.
Don’t your knuckles get sore from having to drag them on the ground all the time?
You know, that constant drooling from your slack jaws, that saliva is leaving ugly red marks on your cheeks and chin, all that drooling spit isn’t good for your skin, it kind of eats it up like acid.
So, things are festering on various parts of the globe, and Dick Cheney and his best buddy Donny Rumsfeld are busy in the years following:
1976: Cheney, Rumsfeld Lobby for Nuclear Power Plant in Iran
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and White House Chief of Staff Dick Cheney unsuccessfully lobby for the construction of a nuclear reprocessing plant in Iran. The two men devised the scheme because, they say, Iran needs a nuclear power program to meet its future energy needs. This is despite the fact that Iran has considerable oil and gas reserves. The deal would be lucrative for US corporations like Westinghouse and General Electric, which would make $6.4 billion from the project. During negotiations over Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger offers Pakistan access to this facility for reprocessing of its nuclear fuel. In return, Pakistan would not build its own reprocessing plant, which the US suspects will be used for a nuclear weapons program. However, Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto rejects the deal, and the plant is not built in Iran anyway.
Bad timing, Dicky Boy, because the rewards of torture come home to roost and:
1979: Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi flees from his stolen perch. Islamic nationalist Ayatollah Khomeini returns from France, where he was exiled for his opposition to the shah’s regime. He encourages the brewing revolution because he is damned pissed and I don't even think he was tortured. And, Iran has nuclear power thanks to our good buddies Dick Cheney and Donny Rumsfeld.
And, by the way, Islamic students storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking hostage 52 American employees. Ayatollah Khomeini applauds their actions. The hostage situation ignites a crisis between the United States and Iran. This is during the presidency of Jimmy Carter.
1980: Hostage crisis continues. Presidential election: Jimmy Carter v. Ronald Reagan. and, rumors abound that Ronald Reagan VP running mate, George Herbert Walker Bush, former head of the CIA, was secretly meeting with Iranian officials to prolong the hostage crisis until Ronald Reagan was safely elected president, setting in train the Iranian arms deal, essentially the October Surprise that unelected Jimmy Carter:
Carter was confident that with Bani-Sadr's help, he could end the embarrassing hostage crisis that had been a thorn in his political side ever since it began in November of 1979.
But Carter underestimated the lengths his opponent in the 1980 Presidential election, California Governor Ronald Reagan, would go to screw him over.
Behind Carter's back, the Reagan campaign worked out a deal with the leader of Iran's radical faction - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini - to keep the hostages in captivity until after the 1980 Presidential election.
This was nothing short of treason. The Reagan campaign's secret negotiations with Khomeini - the so-called "October Surprise" - sabotaged Carter and Bani-Sadr's attempts to free the hostages. And as Bani-Sadr told The Christian Science Monitor in March of this year, they most certainly "tipped the results of the [1980] election in Reagan's favor."
Jan. 20, 1981 | Iran Releases American Hostages as Reagan Takes Office
The Reagan payoff to Iran followed:
...all the top members of the Ronald Reagan administration — including the president — knew that they were violating US law by selling weapons to a country topping the US list of terrorist-supporting states.
Events simmered on. And, what were Dicky and Donny doing?:
At least once a year during the 1980s Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld vanished. Cheney was working diligently on Capitol Hill, as a congressman rising through the ranks of the Republican leadership. Rumsfeld, who had served as Gerald Ford's Secretary of Defense, was a hard-driving business executive in the Chicago area--where, as the head of G. D. Searle & Co., he dedicated time and energy to the success of such commercial products as Nutra-Sweet, Equal, and Metamucil. Yet for periods of three or four days at a time no one in Congress knew where Cheney was, nor could anyone at Searle locate Rumsfeld. Even their wives were in the dark; they were handed only a mysterious Washington phone number to use in case of emergency.
After leaving their day jobs Cheney and Rumsfeld usually made their way to Andrews Air Force Base, outside Washington. From there, in the middle of the night, each man--joined by a team of forty to sixty federal officials and one member of Ronald Reagan's Cabinet--slipped away to some remote location in the United States, such as a disused military base or an underground bunker. A convoy of lead-lined trucks carrying sophisticated communications equipment and other gear would head to each of the locations.
Yes! They were consolidating the dark powers of their Satanic majesties, Shadow Governance!
The Supreme Move of these Satanic Masters was precisely timed with the problematical electronic calendar shift from the 1900s to the 20 hundreds, the seismic electronic shift that would stop everything. People stocked up on whiskey by the gallon to bribe the marauders as they pounded on the door of the new century. Nothing monumental happened, apparently.
But, the Dark Forces flipped the stars on the Republican Logo in 2000, flipping it into the realm of Satan's power with the upside down stars, mockups of Satan's visage stared at us from every representation of the Republican logo, as His Satanic Majesty Himself, Richard Bruce Cheney, declared himself Vice President of the United States. Satan's Dark Powers flipped the U.S. Supreme Court so that George Walker Bush could be President -- and Dick Cheney Vice President. And Donald Rumsfeld could be Secretary of Warfare, er, Defense.
And, Dick Cheney could secretly meet with the captains of Enron, Exxon-Mobil, Shell, British Petroleum (the main actor in the 1953 coup d'etat in Iran), Chevron, Conoco, Aramco, to divide up the oil fields of Iraq. But they had to have a Pearl Harbor event to make it all possible.
And, in the very same year that His Supreme Infernal Unholiness, Richard Bruce Cheney, took office, September 11, 2001, occurred, setting everything in motion for an invasion and occupation of Iraq, the creation of a Warfare Torture (er, Enhanced Interrogation, Verschärfte Vernehmung) Lab in Guantanamo, all the things to delight his Supreme Satanic Majesty.
And now, the solidly Republican Congress, loyal subjects they, are forwarding the pogrom against Iran.
Satanic subject and U.S. House Speaker John Boehner has snubbed the authority of the Executive Branch of our Government to invite Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, the current Prime Minister of Israel, to speak before a joint session of the Congress to lobby for an invasion of Iran. The Saudi Arabians who organized and financed the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on our nation must be very happy.