Cheney = toast ?

In a real democracy, anyway, he would be. This guy should be in shackles.

With yet more evidence of blatant, treasonous illegality on the part of the Defense Contactor in Chief, Juan Cole takes a retrospective look at the Cheney/Libby/Niger/Colin Powell/Plame thread of the not-so-silent coup d'etat we've been suffering through for the past five or six years.

Also,from Peter Phillips of Project Censored, more old-ish news, but it sort of puts things in perspective:

The US now spends as much for defense as the rest of the world combined. The Pentagon's budget for buying new weapons rose from $61 billion in 2001 to over $80 billion in 2004. Lockheed Martin's sales rose by over 30% at the same time, with tens of billions of dollars on the books for future purchases. From 2000 to 2004, Lockheed Martin's stock value rose 300%. Northrup-Grumann saw similar growth with DoD contracts rising from $3.2 billion in 2001 to $11.1 billion in 2004. Halliburton, with Dick Cheney as former CEO, had defense contracts totaling $427 million in 2001. By 2003, they had $4.3 billion in defense contracts, of which approximately a third were sole source agreements.