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The Second-Most Powerful VP Ever

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:51:40 GMT

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Source: The Daily Beast

Dave Lindorff : The Bush-Blair Conspiracy on Iraq

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:54:12 GMT

Most Americans are blissfully in the dark about it, but across the Atlantic in the UK, a commission reluctantly established by Prime Minister Gordon Brown under pressure from anti-war activists in Britain is beginning hearings into the actions and...
Source: Counterpunch

The dilettante

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:45:58 GMT

Former Vice President Cheney called the president a ditherer. I actually think he is a dabbler.
Source: The Hill

Will Dick Cheney support a war tax?

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:37:46 GMT

Let us stand together in awe of the war-fighting urges of former Vice President Dick Cheney and his use of war for partisan political purposes. Dick Cheney never met a war he didn't like, except those he would have to fight in himself.
Source: The Hill

Obama and Afghanistan war: Not a 'gut player'

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:16:21 GMT

decision, Wayne said, "I don't think he is an indecisive person, I just think this is a tough one." President George W. Bush once boasted, "I'm not a textbook player, I'm a gut player."
Source: Salt Lake Tribune

After Cheney

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:14:10 GMT

THE MEDIATOR So far, Biden has avoided the White House infighting that marked Cheney’s tenure.
Source: The New York Times

Analysis: Obama Goes with Head, Not Gut

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:39:17 GMT

(Washington Post) This story was written by Joel Achenbach. President George W. Bush once boasted, "I'm not a textbook player, I'm a gut player." The new tenant of the Oval Office takes a strikingly different approach.
Source: CBS News

Deepening Economic Crisis: Financing the War at the Expense of Job Creation

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:36:07 GMT

According to the White House, the cost of deploying new soldiers to Afghanistan could be $1 million per soldier. Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says that the Iraq war will cost $3-5 trillion dollars.
Source: Global Research

Quoted in 'Stephen King's new novel was 30 years in making'

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:30:34 GMT

said in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

I thought I really had a chance to use this fascinating conflict situation that we saw in the hierarchy of the Bush administration. A lot of people saw Bush as this ventriloquist’s dummy sitting on Cheney’s knee ... I’m not saying that the situation in the administration really was like that; we don’t know. But I thought it would be great to use that in a small-town administration. People saw Bush as inept but well-meaning, and they saw Cheney as this pit bull. It’s a terrific dynamic.

Quoted in ''This Week' Panel: Next Critical Global Threat -- Chinese-Style Authoritarian Capitalism'

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:00:32 GMT

Dick Cheney said in Newsbusters:

As an American president ... you can demand, when you go into China and you're going to have a press conference, you can say, ‘We're taking questions,' ... I mean, there are very clear things, steps you can take to send the message that we actually believe in freedom and democracy.

Dick Cheney: Obama "Putting Politics Over Security"

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:58:45 GMT

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Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:32:58 GMT

WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 21: I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby (C), former Chief of Staff to former Vice President Dick Cheney, attends a forum of the Foreign Policy Initiative at the W Hotel September 21, 2009 in Washington, DC.

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Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

WASHINGTON - JUNE 1: Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation's annual Journalism Awards on June 1, 2009 in Washington, DC. Cheney strongly defended the Bush administration's record on national security.