Thursday, September 12, 2002
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TALK ABOUT CONSERVATIVE!!!
Revealing excerpt from Newsweek, in the words of Nelson Mandela, no less:
...But people like Dick Cheney�c I see yesterday there was an article that said he is the real president of the United States of America, I don�ft know how true that is. Dick Cheney, [Defense secretary Donald] Rumsfeld, they are people who are unfortunately misleading the president. Because my impression of the president is that this is a man with whom you can do business. But it is the men around him who are dinosaurs, who do not want him to belong to the modern age. The only man, the only person who wants to help Bush move to the modern era is Gen. Colin Powell, the secretary of State.
I gather you are particularly concerned about Vice President Cheney?
Well, there is no doubt. He opposed the decision to release me from prison (laughs). The majority of the U.S. Congress was in favor of my release, and he opposed it. But it�fs not because of that. Quite clearly we are dealing with an arch-conservative in Dick Cheney.
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Tuesday, September 10, 2002
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Chicken Hawks Rule!!
An interesting snippet from Jim Lobe's revelatory article on Alternet
...At the moment, the vast majority of the men pushing for war in Washington are what The New Hampshire Gazette defines as "Chicken Hawks": "public persons -- generally male -- who (1) tend to advocate military solutions to political problems, and who have personally (2) declined to take advantage of significant opportunity to serve in uniform during wartime."
That "significant opportunity" for most of Bush's war party faced was, of course, the Vietnam War. Dubya famously avoided the draft by getting a posting with the Texas National Guard, the kind of dodge that Powell referred to in his memoirs as being reserved for "the sons of the powerful." Cheney, however, avoided the uniform altogether, mumbling to one reporter that he "had other priorities in the Sixties than military service." Rumsfeld, the other leading Cabinet hawk, flew jets for the Navy between the Korean and Vietnam wars but never saw combat...
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Cheney, hiding in a secret location for 9/11, never saw a weapons system he didn't like. What he's up to is quite clear from here.
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