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...Goes Vice President Dick Cheney's monosyllabic response of "So?" to a question regarding the two-thirds of Americans who don't support the Iraq war [April 7] suggests he is more committed to forcing democracy in Iraq than practicing it in this country. Roy Hartzler, New Paris, Indiana...
...DICK CHENEY, U.S. Vice President, after being told that two-thirds of Americans do not support the war in Iraq. He argued that public opinion polls should not dictate the war's conduct...
...DICK CHENEY, when told that two-thirds of Americans do not support the war in Iraq. He went on to argue that polling should not dictate the war's conduct...
...head. The Administration had argued that Jose Medellin, a Mexican national convicted of rape and murder in Texas but denied access to Mexican consular officials after his arrest, should get a retrial as ordered by the International Court of Justice in the Hague. The idea of Bush and Cheney arguing to take a foreigner off death row because the U.N. court ordered it had baffled right-wingers and internationalists alike. John Bolton, Bush's former U.N. ambassador, called the Administration's position "ridiculous," "crazy," and a "cave-in" to the State Department. But the big brains at the White House...
...backed away from the treaty. In essence it was a double power grab: Bush wanted the right to unilaterally leave a treaty - and still order state courts to comply with obligations while the treaty was in effect. The move was supported by, among others, David Addington, Dick Cheney's chief of staff, a proponent of expanded presidential powers...