Cheney: Politics not for those who "want to be loved"

â??The World According to Dick Cheney" will air on Showtime tonight. / Showtime

Dick Cheney, formerly one of the most powerful men in America, is the subject of a new documentary that debuts tonight on Showtime - but according to National Journal, he's none too pleased about how it turned out.

The film, "The World According to Dick Cheney," "tells us the story of his 40-year-career in politics going back to the Richard Nixon administration," according to filmmaker R.J. Cutler, an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker.

In it, Cheney reflects on his time in the administration, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and his own personal faults - which, he says, he doesn't "spend a lot of time thinking about."

"My goal was not to put him on trial but to get his voice to be the driving force of this film," according to Cutler.

But National Journal reports that Cheney was dissatisfied with the focus on internal politics at the White House rather than the administration's actual policies, and that he believed it presented biased accounts from journalists and historians.

Cheney is no stranger to criticism, however, and he professes not to be bothered by it.

"If you're not prepared to have critics and to be subject to criticism then, you know, wrong line of work," he says in the documentary. "If you want to be loved, you know, go be a movie star."

[justme1600]

After watching this little documentary, it's an embarrassment to this country that this man hasn't been arrested, tried and jailed.

[hyphenate]

It's a good thing that Cheney will likely never travel too much for the rest of his life. There are too many countries out there who have deemed him a war criminal, of which he is, and will be more than happy to prosecute him for those war crimes.

Dick Cheney has held the people in the US hostage to his neocon leanings, and thousands have fought and died for that. I wish, too, that he had been charged here in the US for the things he has plotted and devised, and for a preemptive strike against Iraq, which caused billions of dollars which could have been used to help US citizens here at home and abroad.

Here is a man who fired upon a friend and nearly killed him, and a man who doesn't seem to have the conscience to find it in his heart to be upset over that shooting. He is a true sociopath of the highest magnitude, who should be in jail for all his crimes, not out getting a heart transplant when someone decent might need it. He rubs me the wrong way, to be sure, and I am certain I am not the only one who feels that way.

[hypnotoad72]

Cheney has lots of cool things to say:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joe_conason/2009/03/27/deficits
("Deficits don't matter")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I
(What would happen in Iraq if we deposed Saddam -- and he said that in 1994... oh, but in 1994 we had a "Democrat" President... that's why he's blathering in 1994...)

[barrybot]

If CBS reported on Baraq Obama like they did on Bush, we wouldn't have to endure three more years of this non-presidential President. Where are you guys? Bhengazi? Lies about what he is doing? Lies about what he has done? Lies about what he plans on doing? Lies from his surigates? Disclosures of how radical his advisors and appointees are? Cheney at least tells the truth most of the time. Obama lies even when he doesn't have to. You are an embarrassment to the word Press.

[iam4honesty]

Awww, poor Darth Vader, feeling unloved.

[andthetruthis]

Cheney's place in hell - WAYYYYY in the back,and down some.

[omnibus66]

He wasn't satisfied with needlessly killing thousands of Americans and maybe over a million Iraqi's. Manipulating the system to get his heart transplant denied a deserving person of that heart and caused yet another needless death. This man is a monster.

[M-Saeed]

Greating all

Well, the golobal challange in many areas, i think mr cheny did his part, the question if third world war starts, and you aware the rise of east and hypocricy in EU.
Do you think liberal democratic can manage?. Defeat is likely.
I dont think so, and you r aware too many transvestise, in liberal democratic think tank that is how it is.
The time will tell you.
They can even create jobs for odinary people who voted them.

Thanks

[baileycccc]

Where did the dig up this old fossil? Why is he still alive?

[TJphoto]

Mr. Cheney, I have a DD-214 with an Honorable Discharge, Do You?????