Cheney in a Box

Mike Whitney

...Bush is teetering and he’s probably left the Cheney-Rumsfeld orbit already. Robert Gates’ job is to influence Bush, to win him over with reason and, thus, move the country away from the brink of disaster. Cheney has been removed from the policy-making apparatus and he knows it. So, what’ll he do next? What will Cheney do now that he’s been backed into a corner and his power is oozing away like the blood from a sucking chest-wound? Will he quietly retire and disappear into the political vapor or "lock-n-load" and go down with both guns blazing? Here’s a clue: Cheney is "dead-ender". He won’t go peacefully...

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