Dick Cheney


Until the sun comes back out and upon reading SNP’s White Paper, the LRS would like to recommend more light summer reading. Although it represents a change of topic from the previous post, the piece Angler the Cheney Vice Presidency on US Vice President Dick “Shooter” Cheney, written by Pulitzer Price winner Barton Gellman and his colleague Jo Becker, both Washington Post, is a fascinating read and offers an intriguing insight in the work and mind of the man who has been tagged the most powerful Vice President in modern times. I found the part on the environmental policy particularly fascinating.

You can read the four-part piece here http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/?hpid=specialreports

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This is an interesting collection, and I think Dick Cheney is one of the most fascinating politicians of the last 50 years.

The Daily Show ran a funny companion to this called "you don't know Dick" and revealed that Cheney has a man-sized safe in his office, he invented a fake "top-secret" designation for papers which are in-fact not classified, and had the VP's residence removed from Google Maps (but not mapquest).

There was an interesting clip of Cheney in '94 talking about why the US shouldn't invade Iraq here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I

It's a fascinating clip to watch now, because he talks very intelligently about all the reasons the US did not invade Iraq during the first Gulf War. He said such a situation would create a quagmire, would lead to the splintering of Iraq into Sunny, Shia, and Kurd, and would find the US acting alone. That seems to be exactly what happened.

It begs the question why did someone who had a very nuanced, insightful view of Iraq in 1994 not do a better job of anticipating these problems or explaining the reasons for the second War in 2003?

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