Word: cheneyism
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...HIGHLIGHT REEL: • A meeting soon after Cheney is inaugurated, between himself and former vice president Dan Quayle. "'Dick, you know you're going to be doing a lot of this international traveling, you're going to be doing all this political fundraising.' Quayle repeated. "I mean, this is what Vice Presidents do. We've all done...
...Cheney did that thing he does with one raised eyebrow, a smile on just the left side of his face...
...private meeting with Texas Rep. Dick Armey, a stalwart conservative who nonetheless opposed going to war with Iraq, Cheney puts the screws to him. "In the privacy of his office, for this one crucial vote, Cheney leveled claims he had not made before and did not make again. Two of them crossed so far beyond the known universe of fact that they were simply without foundation...
...vice president brought the disquieting news that Iraq's "ability to miniaturize weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear," had been "substantially refined since the first Gulf War," Armey recalled ... According to Armey, Cheney also reported that al Qaeda was "working with Saddam Hussein and members of his family...
...Cheney lobbied for the invasion of Iraq not because he thought it was the most dangerous threat to the United States, but rather because he thought a victory there would be the best way to demonstrate American military power. "The United States would take [Saddam] down because it could. The war would not preempt immediate danger, a more traditional ground for war, but prevent a danger that might emerge later," writes Gellman. One of Cheney's advisors referred to this as the "demonstration effect...