The Cheney riddle
Boston Globe
by Robert Kuttner
11/18/06
Im the ten days since President Bush fired Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, one figure is eerily missing from public view and public accounts of what occurred: Vice President Dick Cheney. As usual, America's de facto prime minister is either literally or metaphorically in an undisclosed location. With Rumsfeld, Cheney was responsible for the 180-degree reversal in Bush's professed foreign policy -- remember, Bush was the candidate who didn't believe in getting US troops involved in 'nation-building.' As much as Rumsfeld, Cheney was architect of both the Iraq war and the deeper doctrine behind the war -- neo conservative assertion of America's unilateral military might...
http://tinyurl.com/y6p96p
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
by Robert Kuttner
11/18/06
Im the ten days since President Bush fired Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, one figure is eerily missing from public view and public accounts of what occurred: Vice President Dick Cheney. As usual, America's de facto prime minister is either literally or metaphorically in an undisclosed location. With Rumsfeld, Cheney was responsible for the 180-degree reversal in Bush's professed foreign policy -- remember, Bush was the candidate who didn't believe in getting US troops involved in 'nation-building.' As much as Rumsfeld, Cheney was architect of both the Iraq war and the deeper doctrine behind the war -- neo conservative assertion of America's unilateral military might...
http://tinyurl.com/y6p96p
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
rudkla - 20. Nov, 15:13
