Word: cheneyism
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...Hussein possessed nuclear, chemical and biological arms--weapons of mass destruction (WMD). "There's no doubt in my mind but that they currently have chemical and biological weapons," said Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in January. "We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons," said Vice President Dick Cheney in March. That Iraq might have WMD was never the only reason the Bush Administration wanted to topple Saddam. But it was the big reason, the casus belli, the public rationale peddled over and over to persuade a skeptical nation, suspicious allies and a hostile United Nations to get behind...
...Cheney's Life Support...
...nice to hear Vice President Dick Cheney gloating that he has "a doc with me 24 hours a day" [VERBATIM, May 19]. It should be mighty encouraging to the U.S.'s uncounted millions of uninsured workers to know that their withholding taxes are helping pay for Cheney's round-the-clock medical care, even though these workers couldn't pry their way into their own doctor's office with a crowbar. Isn't there anything that would shame this rich-get-richer, poor-get-poorer Administration? Apparently not. GLENN HODGES Memphis, Tenn...
...Fleischer and his counterparts at the State and Defense departments rarely mention Saddam's illegal weapons unless asked by reporters. In another recalibration last week, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted that no one in the administration had ever said that there were nuclear weapons in Iraq, though Vice President Cheney had claimed just that...
...thought I was some kind of airhead academic, and I thought he was rather an arrogant young member of Congress. Probably we were both right." DICK CHENEY, at an awards ceremony, recalling his first meeting with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld...