(2011-09-04) Cheney Book Vs Obama Ignoring Past

Amy Goodman and Ex-Bush Official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson and Glenn Greenwald connect Barack Obama's "put the past behind us" mentality to Dick Cheney's shameless book promotion. That has taken these actions outside of the criminal realm and turned them into just garden-variety political disputes. And it’s normalized the behavior. And as a result, Dick Cheney goes around the country profiting off of this, you know, sleazy, sensationalistic, self-serving book, basically profiting from his War Crime-s, and at the same time normalizing the idea that these kind of policies, though maybe in the view of some wrongheaded, are perfectly legitimate political choices to make. And I think that’s the really damaging legacy from all of this.