Damn... I Had Forgotten... Dick Cheney Was GHW Bush's Secretary Of Defense...

[WillyT]

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney#Secretary_of_Defense

That has... infinite...implications.

[Scuba]

1. You mean Secretary of Defense Budget Pillaging.

[WillyT]

2. With THAT Guy ??? - CIA/NSA/FBI/ATF... EVERYTHING !!!

[blm]

3. I didn't. He began privatization of the military, starting with logistics.

Halliburton/KBR was in charge of refueling the USS Cole when it was bombed by a boat posing as a KBR refueling boat.

US poodle media never noticed the link, did they? The Dem 'strategist' class didn't either, did they?

[WillyT]

4. Great Point...

[Scuba]

6. "The Dem 'strategist' class didn't either, did they?" Hmmmmmm.

[blm]

11. In 2000 NO Dem analyst showed the wherewithal to target Cheney on USSCole.

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[Vattel]

5. I don't believe that was the same Dick Cheney.

Sec of Defense Dick Cheney argued against deposing Hussein on the grounds that it could unleash chaos in Iraq. Vice President Cheney never mentioned such a possibility.

[truebluegreen]

7. It is even worse than that:

"Ford appointed Rumsfeld his chief of staff when he took office after Nixon's resignation in 1974. The next year, when he made the 42-year-old Rumsfeld the youngest secretary of defense in the nation's history, he named 34-year-old Dick Cheney his chief of staff, also the youngest ever.

Those two Ford appointees worked together ever since. The Bush White House assertion of unchecked presidential power stems from the lessons they drew from their experience of working for the weakest president in recent American history. "For Dick and Don," Harold Meyerson wrote in The American Prospect last July, "the frustrations of the Ford years have been compensated for by the abuses of the Bush years."

Ford also named a new head of the CIA – a former Texas congressman named George H. W. Bush. Thus you could also credit also Ford with launching the Bush dynasty.

Those bad pennies just kept showing up, didn't they?

And yet another reason (beyond the pre-emptive pardon of Nixon) to despise the supposedly innocuous Ford.

[madamesilverspurs]

8. After Ford left office

he served as counsel for those putting together the 'cleanup' of the savings and loan mess, which Neil Bush was smack in the middle of.

Yup, lovely bunch.

[dflprincess]

10. And let's remember Ford was on the Warren Commission

and then there are the questions about H.W.'s actions on November 22. (and remember Poppy's strange ramblings at Ford's funeral?)

But, the Bush Dynasty was around before Ford. The Nazi sympathizer, Prescott, is where it started.

Treason - a Bush family tradition for 3 generations.

[spanone]

9. and don't forget that ghw bu$h was the head of the cia before he became president