The chump behind the chimp and his role.
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<font color=maroon>A senior military official, who asked not to be identified, told Nightline that Cheney, a former defense secretary, was extremely selective in picking out intelligence on Iraq that supported his views, and that his staff's reports were distorted and ideological.
Another source told ABCNEWS that before Secretary of State Colin Powell laid out that case against Saddam Hussein in front of the U.N. General Assembly last January, he was provided with a draft of what would have been a four-hour-long speech.
At least one major section of that draft, the part dealing with terrorist organizations and their relationship to Saddam, was prepared by the vice president's office.
Powell personally took the speech over to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., and vetted it, line by line, with intelligence analysts over a 3 ½-day period. Little, if anything, contained in the section on terrorism could be confirmed. So Powell dumped it.</font>
Cheney picked Bush as his front man because Bush could be so easily bought off with the perks of the Presidency. Cheney doesn't care if they play Hail to the Chief just so long as they fear him and give him money.
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