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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (29461)	10/3/2003 12:41:43 AM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Re. Cheney Although long in the making, the secretive vice president's image as zealot appears to have impressed itself in the media just in the past two weeks. ... There had long been hints that Cheney was not quite the reasonable and deliberate presence that he so effectively conveyed throughout his long career. At the beginning of the administration, it was he who championed Rumsfeld, his former boss in the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations, for the defense post and then insisted, over fierce objections by Secretary of State Colin Powell, on placing Wolfowitz in the number two position at the Pentagon. He also insisted, again over Powell's misgivings, on making ultra-unilateralist John Bolton, then vice president of the American Enterprise Institute (where Cheney's spouse, Lynne Cheney, is a fellow), Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. Bolton - praised by the ultra-rightwing former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman as "the kind of man with whom I would want to stand at Armageddon", the final, apocalyptic battlefield between good and evil prophesied in the Bible - told the Wall Street Journal last year that the "happiest moment in his government service" came when the US pulled out of the treaty creating the International Criminal Court. Cheney also made Libby his own chief of staff and national security advisor. A hard core neo-conservative who had worked with Wolfowitz in 1992 on a controversial draft strategy that called for global US military dominance that was strongly denounced by the Republican foreign policy establishment at the time, Libby later served as general counsel to the Cox Commission, a Congressional body convened to investigate alleged Chinese spying and acquisition of advanced-weapons technology. Its final report was almost universally derided as flimsy, exaggerated and inaccurate by both technical and China experts. and more from atimes.com Since this is in the Asia Times, I'm sure it's burnishing the US image. JMO lurqer