Cheney's mask is slipping

[UpInArms]

http://atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EJ01Aa01.html

WASHINGTON - In the 2000 elections, he was the thoughtful, gray- haired Washington veteran who reassured nervous voters that candidate George W Bush would indeed have adult supervision if he became president of the United States.

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Now, three years later, the image of Vice President Dick Cheney is changing. Already tarnished by questions surrounding the huge no- bid reconstruction contracts won by his former company, Halliburton, in which he retains a financial interest, as well as his refusal to disclose to Congress what meetings he held during his formulation of Bush's energy policy, Cheney is increasingly seen as a serious rightwing extremist and ideologue, and by far the most powerful number two in US history.

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At the beginning of the administration, it was he who championed Rumsfeld, his former boss in the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations, for the defense post and then insisted, over fierce objections by Secretary of State Colin Powell, on placing Wolfowitz in the number two position at the Pentagon.

He also insisted, again over Powell's misgivings, on making ultra- unilateralist John Bolton, then vice president of the American Enterprise Institute (where Cheney's spouse, Lynne Cheney, is a fellow), Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.

...and so much more...

the list of ickly demons and all the accompanying horrors of who they are -- spelled out in frightening detail

[AndyTiedye]

1. PNAC, Every One Of Them!

:grr::grr::grr::grr:

[fabius]

2. The longer Bush listens to Cheney...

...the deeper the hole he digs himself into.