LaRouche: "As long as Cheney is Vice President, the Presidency of the United States cannot work"

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May 27 (LPAC)--Speaking on the internet radio program The LaRouche Show on May 26, Lyndon LaRouche said that the United States cannot be a viable nation unless Vice President Cheney is removed from office.

"Cheney's got to go, because if he doesn't go, you're having a breakdown of the White House; the guy in the White House is cracking up now. The White House as an institution is cracking up. Cheney is exerting more power now, than the White House. He is involved in things, essentially controlling what the United States does. Now, how successful he's going to be, that's another question. But the problem is, we're facing not just wars in Southwest Asia, and that sort of thing. We're facing police-state threats here in the United States, but we're in a situation where the world is going into the greatest financial crisis in all modern history, probably as bad or worse than what Europe experienced during the 14th Century, and there's no one on the job. In Western Europe, no one's on the job; in the United States, no one's on the job.

"Now, what you need is, a White House, or you need a Presidency, or something tantamount to a Presidency, which takes the lead from the United States, since the dollar is the key to this whole world crisis, and which uses the fact that we are responsible for the dollar, to go to three or four other major nations and get a pilot agreement on putting the whole system into reorganization, to avoid a chain-reaction bankruptcy of the world system. That has to come out of the Presidency, somehow or other. As long as Cheney is Vice President, the Presidency of the United States cannot work.

"We're on the verge of a crisis which can bring the whole system down into not just a depression, but a general breakdown crisis globally. Therefore, we need a Presidency, in some form, which can do this job. As long as Cheney is in there, the United States and most of the world does not have a chance of surviving, because there's nobody to change the system.

"So, you've got to get him out now, not merely because he's bad with what he's doing, but because as long as he's in there, the United States doesn't function. And as long as the U.S. dollar is still the reserve currency of the world, that's where most of the debts are; they're denominated in dollars. And unless we can do our job in controlling our own dollar, in cooperation with other leading countries, who Cheney wants to make war with, then we cannot make it as a nation. Therefore, he's got to get out, because if you don't get him out, you can't do any of the things which could be done to save the world from Hell."