Word: cheneyism
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...that "Russia is leaving the West." The George W. Bush who in 2001 said of Putin that "I looked the man in the eye ? I was able to get a sense of his soul" and "found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy," sent Vice President Dick Cheney to Lithuania in May to declare that Russia should stop using its oil and gas supplies to keep customer countries [an error occurred while processing this directive] in line, and to complain that Putin's government "has unfairly and improperly restricted the rights of her people." Privately, the other G-8 leaders...
...anything that might offend Russia. "People were jittery," according to one person who attended. Resources Behavior like that does not go down well in the U.S. In a speech in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius in May that provoked a furious reaction in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney warned Moscow against using energy as "tools of intimidation and blackmail." One conservative Russia watcher, Ariel Cohen of the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, says that "Russia had a very good opportunity to become a major alternative exporter [to the U.S.] in 2001 and 2002, but it has missed that opportunity...
...liberty. * The stories in the New York Times and other newspapers about the government's highly classified program to monitor bank records have provoked outrage from the White House. President George W. Bush called them "disgraceful" and said the revelations caused "great harm" to America. Vice President Dick Cheney said the press had "made the job of defending against further terrorist attacks more difficult...
ALBERT SUKOFF, resident of Berkeley, Calif., after the city council agreed to put to voters a symbolic measure calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney because of Iraq...
Many people may scoff at the decision earlier this week by the Berkeley City Council to put a resolution on the Nov. 7 ballot calling for President Bush and Vice President Cheney to be impeached. After all, 74,000 voters of what is often referred to as The People's Republic of Berkeley can't legally oust the President and Vice President. But Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates thinks his city is simply ahead of its time, as it has often proved to be in the past...