Dick Cheney

[Jcrowley]

U.S. Vice-Presidents: War As Politics
Dick Cheney: Whip of the Republicans
After making his way into politics following Donald Rumsfeld’s footsteps, Dick Cheney has imposed himself quickly as the indispensable man of the Republican Party in the White House and the Congress. Confirming without further complexes his determinedly conservative choices, Cheney has opened up the way to the imperial ambitions of the neo-conservative. Conjugating his public positions with financial responsibilities, he has become the Halliburton General Director, while his wife, Lynne, is the administrator of Lockheed-Martin. Dick Cheney has imposed himself as George W. Bush’s Vice-President.


Gerald Ford and Dick Cheney

Richard Cheney - the son of an official at the Agriculture Department, was raised in the State of Wyoming. Enrolled in the University of Yale, he dropped out the University after two years. By that time, he wanted to work and “see the world”. So, for a while, he set to install electric lines in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, before going back to his studies in the University of Wyoming. He married Lynne Vincent, his youth love, and set out for taking a doctorate in Political Sciences at the University of Wisconsin. When called in to the army to enroll the lists for the Vietnam War, he was given a leave for his students status and later for being a family man. Effectively, his daughter Elizabeth was born in 1966.

A member of the U.S. Association of Political Sciences, he was promoted to Washington in 1968 with the possibility of working for a Congress member. He tried to make an appointment with Donald Rumsfeld, but the latter did not receive him. He then started to work for William Steiger from Wisconsin. When Rumsfeld got the chairmanship of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Cheney tried to contact him again, being successful that time. This way, Cheney became Rumsfeld’s first assistant in Washington for seven years. But this collaboration was not continuous: in 1973, when Donald Rumsfeld took on the position of U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Cheney availed himself of the license granted him to work for a while for Bradley, Woods & Company - a specialized advisory society in the field of finances.


Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld

First stay in the White House

That was nothing but a parenthesis. Cheney had already passed his tests and when in 1974, Rumsfeld was nominated the White House Secretary General by Gerald Ford, he naturally summoned his former assistant to his side to play the same role, this time in the very heart of power. Dick Cheney had before him his life’s opportunity and did not let it go. A tireless worker, he took care, for more than one year, of settling the most trivial administrative troubles, from the White House plumbing to the little pad of the presidential copter, even solving the delicate problems of the salaries... the result: Cheney became omnipresent, controlled all the secrets in the White House and very soon was able to prepare political operations of great magnitude.

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1. thanks, people need to know Cheney-Rummy go way back & that's why Rummy

is here to stay, as long as Dickhead is VpResident. Cheney, who really runs things at BushCo, is not going to resign Rummy, no matter how loud the resignation chorus in Congress and among the military get.

The only way we are going to 'resign" Rummy is to resign this Repuke Congress in '06; otherwise, we will be forced to wait til '08. So get out and work for your Dem candidates, please!

[Cooley Hurd]

2. They've been in the fear business together for 30+ years:

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1207-26.htm

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According to this carefully researched and well-vetted BBC documentary, Richard Nixon, following in the steps of his mentor and former boss Dwight D. Eisenhower, believed it was possible to end the Cold War and eliminate fear from the national psyche. The nation need no longer be afraid of communism or the Soviet Union. Nixon worked out a truce with the Soviets, meeting their demands for safety as well as the US needs for security, and then announced to Americans that they need no longer be afraid.

In 1972, President Richard Nixon returned from the Soviet Union with a treaty worked out by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the beginning of a process Kissinger called "détente." On June 1, 1972, Nixon gave a speech in which he said, "Last Friday, in Moscow, we witnessed the beginning of the end of that era which began in 1945. With this step, we have enhanced the security of both nations. We have begun to reduce the level of fear, by reducing the causes of fear—for our two peoples, and for all peoples in the world."

But Nixon left amid scandal and Ford came in, and Ford's Secretary of Defense (Donald Rumsfeld) and Chief of Staff (Dick Cheney) believed it was intolerable that Americans might no longer be bound by fear. Without fear, how could Americans be manipulated?

Rumsfeld and Cheney began a concerted effort - first secretly and then openly - to undermine Nixon's treaty for peace and to rebuild the state of fear and, thus, reinstate the Cold War.

And these two men - 1974 Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Ford Chief of Staff Dick Cheney - did this by claiming that the Soviets had secret weapons of mass destruction that the president didn't know about, that the CIA didn't know about, that nobody but them knew about. And, they said, because of those weapons, the US must redirect billions of dollars away from domestic programs and instead give the money to defense contractors for whom these two men would one day work.

"The Soviet Union has been busy," Defense Secretary Rumsfeld explained to America in 1976. "They’ve been busy in terms of their level of effort; they’ve been busy in terms of the actual weapons they ’ve been producing; they’ve been busy in terms of expanding production rates; they’ve been busy in terms of expanding their institutional capability to produce additional weapons at additional rates; they’ve been busy in terms of expanding their capability to increasingly improve the sophistication of those weapons. Year after year after year, they’ve been demonstrating that they have steadiness of purpose. They’re purposeful about what they’re doing."
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3. A “Hawk” Is Born

A “Hawk” Is Born

After all these years in the Pentagon and two particularly successful military operations lived through, Dick Cheney’s ideology in terms of international politics has grown considerably strong. Unquestionably, his proximity to Paul Wolfowitz also influenced the development of a true neo-conservative doctrine in this field.

The United States, and particularly the U.S. army, then faced a total reconsideration caused by the slow but sure collapse of the former Soviet block. In this setting, Cheney entirely adhered to the Wolfowitz’s doctrine, prone to discourage the emerging powers that wanted to contest the United States as far as keeping a strong military power was concerned.

This doctrine was developed on the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance, directed by Cheney, coordinated by Wolfowitz and drawn up by Zalmay Khalilzad <6>. When certain passages «were filtrated» to the press and fed a controversy, Cheney defended the text unlike Wolfowitz, who, first of all, tried to protect himself. The Defense Secretary had never been afraid of openly expressing his opinions. A few weeks later, when the definitive version of the report was published, after its new partial drafting by Scooter Libby, it was the name of Richard Cheney the one to appear on the cover.



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[Parche]

4. cheney

He has gotten big, he looks skinny in that pic
is it because he has no heart and he is bloated now?