Psychic Profiles | 05/21/2009 8:00 am

What Is Dick Cheney Thinking? Peggy Rometo Speaks

Why is the former vice president compelled to defend the CIA interrogation policies? What does he think of the Obama administration? wowOwow’s Psychic Intuitive provides insight.

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Former Vice President Dick Cheney spent much of his eight years in office working in private locations and away from the media spotlight. Now, Cheney has become one of the most outspoken defenders of the national security policies imposed under former President George W. Bush’s administration. As Cheney continues to remain a powerful voice about the need for the CIA’s use of controversial anti-terrorism policies, including the highly debated tactic of waterboarding, wowOwow reached out to Psychic Intuitive Peggy Rometo to better understand one of the most mysterious political figures.

wOw: Why is Dick Cheney spearheading a media campaign to sell his past policies to the American people?

Peggy Rometo: He thinks that it is his personal duty to protect America, and feels justified in defending his political point of view. The impulse to protect America is ingrained in him; it’s part of who he is. This mandate began during his time as secretary of defense under Bush No. 1 — and now, it’s become more than a position. It’s a core belief.

He likes Obama personally, and finds him a formidable political adversary. But he feels he's opening us up to danger ...

wOw: Do either Dick Cheney or George W. Bush have regrets about implementing torture in the past?

Peggy: Cheney has none. He feels adamant that he defended the country and did what was necessary to ensure the safety of America. Bush also feels no remorse, but he comes to this conclusion from a different stance. In essence, he sanctioned these policies because he felt they needed to be in place to protect the country from another 9/11. But as somebody who had very little experience with the military, he didn’t feel entirely comfortable with hearing the details. He was happy to delegate these decisions to Cheney and Rumsfeld, the military experts on his team.

wOw: What is Cheney’s relationship with Bush now?

Peggy: They continue to remain close confidants. Cheney still considers him a friend and ally, and feels it’s necessary to protect the office he held, rather than the individual who held it. He feels compelled to manage the press coverage of their past policies, which Bush is more than happy to leave to Cheney, his military expert. This works out well, since Cheney secretly fears that Bush would say too much or not articulate their position correctly, were he being grilled by the press. In the end, Bush is "over it."

wOw: How does George W. Bush feel about the media hoopla over past torture policies?

Peggy: Bush wishes it would all just die down, and doesn’t want to be in the hot seat on this issue. After all, he reasons, it wasn’t his plan; Cheney and his team formulated it, and all he did was approve it. Therefore, he sees Cheney as the natural spokesperson to field this conversation. Instead of focusing on yesterday, he wants the country to pay attention to what is happening today by being aware of current threats to our national security. But ultimately, he just wants everyone to let the whole thing go.

wOw: What about Cheney?

Peggy: He feels outraged that people are so naïve, and livid that nobody is giving him credit for having had the courage to do what it took to protect our country. He feels that people don’t have a clue about the threat we’ve been under, and that the administration purposely didn’t tell us everything they knew so we could sleep at night. Cheney is speaking out because he wants people to be aware of the intelligence that led to his policies, and he’d do it again. He wants Americans to wake up and be on guard. This is a personal mission for him; he doesn’t believe we may be under a threat, he knows it.

wOw: How does Dick Cheney feel about the Obama administration?

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I wish the media would stop speaking with him but controversy sells ads so on it goes

Cheney lacks credibility with me, ever since he chaired the VP committee to see who would run with W and then said "okay, it should be me since i found no other candidate" -huh?

He has wanted to go back to Iraq ever since Bush Sr wisely left when he did - The Atlantic has done many research reports on this - so on 9.12.01 Powell has spoken of his shock that Cheney and Rummy said "let’s invade Iraq" - huh?

Calling people traitors if they objected to the Iraq War but now it’s okay for him to go on international media arenas and do the same?

Looking for legal loopholes to ensure the President had close to absolute powers? huh? this is not what we were founded upon - as a Republican, he did the opposite of what the party stood for, he made government bigger

His involvement with Halliburton and the oil industry just made those situations so skeevy - I work in government and I live with the ethics that "if it looks iffy, even if it’s clean, don’t do it"

I don’t think Obama is naive; he’s brilliant and he’s working night and day, don’t worry -

I didn’t feel safe under the Bush Administration and 9.12.01 was a sad day, yes, it was amazing how the city of NY and DC pulled together, how people in Canada opened their homes to passengers on grounded planes - the human interest stories are plentiful and wonderful - but alot of death and destruction occurred for no reason the day previous so I wouldn’t really say I was proud - now if we had stayed in Afghanistan, got Bin Laden, then okay - but no, we had to go into a country that didn’t attack us and get rid of their bad guy instead

I don’t blame Clinton or Bush for 9.11.01, that’s unfair - middle east relations and policies have been a slippery slope of bad judgements since the 40’s so everyone is to blame if we must assign blame - what is important is how we move forward from here

I don’t know how I feel about interrogation methods, to be honest - but the whole genesis of the GITMO creation was what bugged me - again a loophole was found that if we detained them there then they would not be subject to the same fair and impartial hearing that other human beings receive if they are suspected of a crime - that is creepy

so sorry, for al lthe reasons stated above - Cheney is creepy and I am sick of the media attention on him and I do think, using the same rationale he used in his administration (it was really his after all) that he is a traitor - his speeches are just saving himself from Amnesty International

By Chips AHoey on 05/21/2009 4:30 pm

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If I may say so, Chips AHoey, your gentle honesty is so refreshing. I really appreciate the sentiments you expressed in this post. Thank you.

By rocky rocky on 05/21/2009 5:57 pm

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I second rocky rocky, Chips AHoey…..what a thoughtful and interesting post!

By ~ countrywoman ~ on 05/21/2009 11:01 pm

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To the cynics who think that the Cheney/Rummy/Tenet/Bush bunch kept them safer, I know a nice bridge in Brooklyn I’ll sell you. Safe? From what? Our economy is in a shambles. Our military is in a shambles. Cheney made untold millions increasing the size of the military complex that Eisenhower tried to warn us about back in 1952(ever heard of Halliburton?). Are you safer because of your marvelous Health Care Plan? Are you safer because you have had a substantial portion of your retirement account dissolved because of the greedy bunch that supported that administration? Are your homes safer after losing the job and not being able to find a new one? Do you honestly believe that you are safer while you still drive gas guzzlers and refuse to consider alternative ways of transportation? Are you safer because that administration made our waterways safer? Our train tracks safer? Our interstates safer? Our borders safer? Our crumbling infrastructure safer? When are you going to remember 9/11 as a time when lives were lost and it was a dark moment in our history because of negligent intelligence, and move to Sept 12, where we can start thinking about moving forward to a new era for our nation? Do you all have a clue that America is no longer the only "Land of Opportunity" in the world? That other countries are passing us by? That other countries have also had more bombings that we have(England, Spain), and have learned to move forward to a new future?

What are your alternatives to a new and brighter future? How do you imagine education to be, health care to be, taking care of our infrastructure will be in 20 years? Have you ever thought of that? What do you dream for your grandchildren? What kind of world do you want for them? Are you going to only focus on fear, danger, threats, rancor without one iota of thinking of constructive ways to change?

Life is too short to be so miserable,scared, angry and bitter. At least Obama is forward thinking, which is a lot more than I can say for most of the people posting here.

By Diana T on 05/21/2009 4:41 pm

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Thank you Diana for that excellent post.

By DeBúrca obj on 05/21/2009 5:08 pm

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Diana-So what is your point???? If your thinking is that life is to short to care about our safety and keeping us alive then that is all you needed to basically post. If this post wasn’t about anger and a lot of bitterness, then I will eat my computer! Probably misery too!!! All of these things you have mentioned-education, healthcare, our roads and highways, etc… have been in trouble for 20 years or more. It hasn’t changed, except now, our grandchildren will be in debt before they are even born. That is change you can believe in.

By Deborah Kramer on 05/21/2009 5:49 pm

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If you don’t understand Diana’s point then I suggest you do eat your computer because she was crystal clear and very well delivered. Read it again and digest.

By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 05/21/2009 9:34 pm

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With all the hazardous materials in a computer, taking the toxic “waste” down to the recycler would be quite embarrassing. ;-)

By Steve R on 05/22/2009 8:16 pm

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The problem, Deborah, is that you don’t know enough to respond to Diana’s brilliant post. The plan on the part of Osama Bin Laden is working right on schedule, with the help of people who ‘think’ like you do. The man used our planes to blow up our buildings and cause us to squander our resources in the service of fear to bankrupt us and destroy our international credibility. The Bush Administration, led by Cheney and Karl Rove, destroyed the United States Constitution, a document which has provided hope to most of the world for three centuries, because they were too ignorant to understand the long-range effects of their actions. Bin Laden knew exactly what he was doing. He fired the first shot and then sat back as the Bush Administration and other foolish people busily began destroying our country from within. You cynically, thinking how very smart you are, used President Obama’s slogan to try to drive home your "point" which is that somehow you are the one who really knows what is happening. So dismissing Ms. Diana’s post only shows (a) you haven’t a clue what has happened in this country in the past decade; (b) you probably don’t have the courage you will need to face what has happened; and (c) you haven’t the sense to listen to intelligent, well-informed people who might just might help you pull yourself together to deal with what is coming.

By Mugsy Peabody on 05/21/2009 9:54 pm

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The failure of the health care system in our country under Bush and Cheney has been so pervasive and extensive and has caused so many more deaths than the war in Iraq/Afghanistan and 9/11 put together (e.g., 36,000 died just of simple influenza in the United States alone last year, many of whom were unable to get the flue vaccine), that it is incomprehensible to me how ANYONE who has any family or friends doesn’t know how really unsafe we are at this point in our history. Every other industrialized nation has universal health care. Every single one. Except us. We are so safe, however, that we obviously don’t need it. Of course then, our infant mortality rate does compete with African nations, but it is nice that we are good at something. (We do spend a lot of money, time, and energy protecting the unborn fetus, but once you’re born, baby, you’re on your own.) So keep on rattling your swords and telling everyone how bloody good we have it here in the good ole us of a, kids. Maybe you even believe it. Wait till it’s your friends and family dying and then let’s talk again.

By Mugsy Peabody on 05/22/2009 12:00 am

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Mugsy, I do not even know what to say to reply to your post and several others because I just see things differently than you do. I think I still have the right today to have my own opinion and views and not be attacked so viciously. I am just dumbfounded by the attacks because I totally disagree. Let me remind you what has been posted all in my name: I do not know enough to respond, I am cynical, I think I am so smart, I am the one who knows what is going on, but yet you opened with I don’t know enough-make up your mind , please, I haven’t a clue what has happened in a decade, I have no courage, and I have no sense to listen to intelligent, well informed people, which I will assume are only Democratic liberals. Then there is: read it again and digest it (yeah, just call me an idiot), I missed the point-which is more like I just don’t agree with the little group here, that should be okay, if I am still in the America that I have lived in for 55 years. I so disagree with what you are suggesting and I hope that it is still okay, obviously not with you and several others. I just hope you will take a look at the attacks just because I disagreed, it really amazes me and you know what it feels horrible. I am very opened minded and I am on this site to learn other views, but it is difficult when you are attacked for what I believe. There are many things that I really disagreed with in the last 8 years and many things that I truely agree with Obama on. So like I said, I am dumbfounded with all these attacks, especially from you, it is just not necessary.

By Deborah Kramer on 05/22/2009 12:52 pm

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We understand that you disagree. I’m sorry that you are upset. But we can no longer afford your point of view. It is destroying our country, and people are very very angry about it. The America you have lived in for 55 years must be in your mind, or you live in a very small place away from the cities where it is so very painfully evident that the BushI/BushII/Cheney boys have actually done far more damage to the United States than the nuclear explosions did to Hiroshima and Nakisaki. We are in desperate, terrible trouble, and you’re still acting as if and as though, and it won’t wash. I’m sorry if you’re upset and stunned. But you couldn’t possibly be more upset and stunned than my coworker who worked her ass off for 25 years to stock her 401(k) and buy a house only to lose both in a year just after she’s had surgery for a brain tumor. Why did she lose everything she’s worked so hard for? Do you want to dive in there and tell her how America is still the land of opportunity, of fairness? Do you want to help us pay her COBRA health insurance? Unless you get it what is happening, you really are no damn help to the rest of us, many of whom will actually die as a result of these policies.

By Mugsy Peabody on 05/23/2009 1:08 am

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Mugsy, There are no winners on this topic, there are some things I agree with and other things I find unblelievable. I do appreciate your kindness to to say that you were sorry followed with I am no damn help to the rest of us. Thank you, I suppose if that is the best you can do, so be it. We were in the military (air force) for 21 years, living in the largest cities that exist, along with living in Germany for 4 years. So, no I am not some redneck in your mind that hides in my little bungalow without a television or newspapers. We live in Florida now in a large city. One more thing I would like to inform you about so that you will quit assuming you know me is that I have a sister in Sacramento that liives in the tent city, so maybe I know more than you do about what is at loss here. Yes, we are trying to get them here to come and live with us, but so far they want to work on getting back on their feet without handouts. Now, what I do not understand is how it just happens to be just the Republicans fault! It ceases to amaze me! During Clinton’s years there were definitely problems with Fannie and Freddie, thanks to Franks. Then we had terrorists attacks at our American Embassy, the USS Cole, and the twin towers and you all blame Bush for 9/11! Mugsy that is just crazy, come on and lets be fair, please. Do I blame the Bush years on many things, Yes I do, but I blame our Government-period. We all just continue to have the wool pulled over our eyes. Then there are the American people who spent and bought until their debt was so outrageous, nothing could bale them out. Then there are the greedy loan companies and mortgage companies, the greedy banks, and on and on. So personally, I blame many people and not just Bush. It is just ludricous! I blame the Republicans and for anyone to think the Democrats did not have a huge hand in this is just not realistic! Would you like to help pay for my sisters health care? Our disagreement is that just one administration caused all this, and they did not.

One more thing I wanted to mention is that I was a Democrat for 32 years and today I try to vote for the person that I agree with the most. Although, there are a couple of issues that I have difficulty with, but I have voted Democrat, so your attacks are still just quite amazing. What makes you think that you know so much more than the next person? The last thing Mugsy is regardless how anyone feels, I respect your opinion and everybody elses and I feel that should be reciprocated. Call me crazy! Cursing at me just is not necessary and once again it is ugly. But I really do appreciate you getting back to me, I do and thank you again. These issues just are not as black and white as many of you like to protray them. It is our Government that we all need to be extremely concerned about. By the way, Our 401K has been cut by a huge amounts and I Do know what is happening and obviously maybe even more than some of you do. So, I guess the best that can come from this is to be respectful and to agree to disagree, at least I hope. Hope you have a great weekend.

By Deborah Kramer on 05/23/2009 12:56 pm

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Deborah kramer, what I find a little baffling about these posts of yours is that they seem to be terribly inconsistent. I refer you to your posts to HA BIBI and how much you look forward to

“reading her such a gift with words, you truely do. A sissy man he is, but I will be nice and not say how I really feel about that loser crook! Have a great night and thank you again for your great posts!! “

And yet she is one of the most ‘know it all’, rigid, rude, tacky posters on here. She, you find delightful and entertaining.

Your moral superiority rings hollow. You don’t spread the blame around. Your derision and ridicule, which is quite substantial, is saved for the Liberal posters and this Democratic administration, which has been in power for just 4 months.

You deal with people sarcastically , you judge people. you lump them together and you call them names :

“Liberals for the most part are Such Hypocrites!”

But when you don’t like the way someone deals with you, you climb on your moral soapbox, highly offended and look your nose down on them.

This whole exchange started because you showed not one whit of respect for Diana’s post.

If you can’t take, I suggest you stop dishing it.

By Deni G on 05/23/2009 6:45 pm

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Deni- I am the one baffled by the consistency of how hateful you are along with your group and baby I can take it! It does not mean I have to like women constantly attacking other women just because your view on many things are different than mine or others. So continue on being the way you are, in the long run others Do see it for what it is. I am so impressed how you assume to know me so well. You guys crack me up! I would Never look down morally or otherwise on anyone. If you had a clue where I have come from and where I am today, then maybe you would understand that. This is not even any of your business anyway, never heard of you nor have I ever read any of your post. You speak of respect, OMG, you would not know it if it hit you right in the face. I did not agree with her post and I Did not attack her. You are like a pack of wolves, if it was not so sad, it would be funny. I enjoy HA BIBI humor, just like you I am sure love Joy Behar’s humor and I hate it and disagree with it, so I don’t listen to it nor watch it. I suggest you learn to scroll if you have problems with me or HA BIBI, and all the Republicans or Independents. It is just an idea. Saying people are hyprocrites opposed to being called stupid, cynical,do not have courage, , I look down on people, moral superiority, and on and on. Hmm… I think I have pressed some buttons, ya think?? I am finished with this crap and name calling and assumptions, so I will just scroll right on down. Thank you for such kindness, you have a good day now! I really hope things like this make you feel better about yourself, people behave like this with pure meaness and attacks for some reason, I’ll assume you must be getting something out of it, what I can’t even imagine, but continue on if you feel better attacking.

By Deborah Kramer on 05/24/2009 11:19 am