Haass: Cheney Bugged My Calls Because I Wasn't a Hawk
By Andrew Burt, Washington Whispers
What was it about former State Department official Richard Haass that bugged former Vice President Dick Cheney? Haass, out with a new book, War of Necessity, War of Choice, says he was shocked to read in Angler, a book about Cheney, that the former veep ordered his phone calls tapped. An aide to both former President Bushes, Haass thinks the reason might have been that he wasn't hawkish enough while working with another moderate, former Secretary of State Colin Powell. "To me it was just indicative of how ideological the administration had become," Haass says. For example, he pushed for a dialogue with Iran, rejected by the Bush-Cheney team. "The idea that something like that would be seen as somehow beyond the pale—that in many ways encapsulated my fundamental difference with this administration." When asked directly what irked Cheney enough to spy on him, he shrugs: "Ask the former vice president."
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Pro Government of the People and Peace
I'm still waiting for War Crimes trails for the Cheney/Bush Regime, and am loosing hope on Obama avoiding his own. I have most of the values stated by the so-called conservatives, but doublessly ever return to that ilk, and their phony set of morals. It took me a long time to get completely fed up, but the Bush out right lies and fraud to make war went very too far when he and his covered the high treason and mass murder of September 11, 2001, and used it for war making on the Taliban while claiming to be after AlQaeda while neither had anything at all with the expert demolition of the World Trade Center. I wait for the appropriate trials on those crimes as well. What this country needs is a fresh start, a group of honest people that will clean up the garbage that is destroying our Constitution and way of life, while our so called representatives accept "contributions" in exchange for legislation for our elite Corporations. Most of those in the two houses Congress have to be made history.
THE PRO JOHN WARREN
Oh My Goodness Gracious as Don Rumsfeld would say. They are all the PRO's we in the Cheney Administration have been advocating for the past eight years.
TO FAR
ANYONE... That is to far to either side of the pendulum needs to seriously seek mental and emotional help. This guy from NJ has the potential to very dangerous.
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