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Viewers may find the spectacle something of a rerun of the overtly inclusionary 2000 convention; campaign officials are again asking state delegations to stress diversity. Projecting such an image is crucial after weeks of strident exchanges between the parties, culminating in Vice President Cheney's outburst at Democratic Senator Pat Leahy last week. Cheney will get a prime-time spot too, of course, but insiders say he's unlikely to join in the gentler approach. "Cheney soften?" says a Bush official. "Don't bet on it." --By John F. Dickerson
...Your reporting raised serious questions about why the U.S. went to war in Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney was an early and staunch advocate for the invasion. Then Halliburton, his former company, was given a huge no-bid contract to rebuild Iraq and run the oil fields. No wonder most of the world is appalled by what we are doing there. No wonder 50% of Americans are disgusted and angry with what George W. Bush has done to Iraq. The only wonder is why the other 50% think he is doing O.K. D. Alan Caccia Honokaa...
...against the left on Iraq, even though I think he should have waited until the U.N. inspections were over. I don't believe he went in there for oil. We didn't go in there for imperialist or financial reasons. We went in there because he bought the Wolfowitz-Cheney analysis that the Iraqis would be better off, we could shake up the authoritarian Arab regimes in the Middle East, and our leverage to make peace between the Palestinians and Israelis would be increased...
...time the military received Vice President Dick Cheney's authorization to shoot down any hostile aircraft, at 10:31 a.m., the last of the hijacked planes had already crashed. The commission report says Cheney did first get the President's go-ahead over the phone but commissioners told TIME that formal documentation for that order is incomplete. However it came about, the commission also reveals that the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) never actually relayed Cheney's command to its pilots in the air, some of whom were seeking a jet, American Airlines Flight 11, that had earlier crashed...
Your reporting raised serious questions about why the U.S. went to war in Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney was an early and staunch advocate for the invasion. Then Halliburton, his former company, was given a huge no-bid contract to rebuild Iraq and run the oil fields. No wonder most of the world is appalled by what we are doing there. No wonder 50% of Americans are disgusted and angry with what Bush has done to Iraq. The only wonder is why the other 50% think he is doing O.K. D. ALAN CACCIA Honokaa, Hawaii...