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Related: About this forumTYT: George H. W. Bush Calls Dick Cheney Iron Ass?
George H. W. Bush has a new book out where he calls Dick Cheney an Iron Ass warmonger. The Dark Lord Cheney took it as a compliment. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"He just became very hard-line and very different from the Dick Cheney I knew and worked with, the elder Bush said of the man who served as his secretary of defense. Just iron-ass. His seeming knuckling under to the real hard-charging guys who want to fight about everything, use force to get our way in the Middle East. He said Cheney built his own empire.
Ive concluded that Lynne Cheney is a lot of the eminence grise hereiron-ass, tough as nails, driving, George H.W. Bush said. (One takeaway from the book is Bushs love of the phrase iron-ass, which seems at once like a dated Yankee descriptor and also delightfully vivid.)...
He was even harsher about Rumsfeld, who he deemed an arrogant fellow.*
Read more here: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/george-hw-bush-dick-cheney-donald-rumsfeld-iraq-jon-meacham/414343/
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TYT: George H. W. Bush Calls Dick Cheney Iron Ass? (Original Post)
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Nov 2015
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jalan48
(13,870 posts)1. I think Bush the Elder is trying to make his sons look better.
By separating the "bad guys" from the "good guys" in George Jr.'s administration he hopes to make Jeb more palatable to the voters today. It wasn't Jr.'s fault, it was those bad guys around him. I know it's cynical but he must have known this years ago-why now in the middle of a Presidential election in which Jeb is a candidate?
olegramps
(8,200 posts)2. I don't know if the is his intention.
I am no fan of him, but I do think that he handled the invasion by Saddam correctly and declined to expand the action to the invasion of Iraq. Cheney was in agreement with him at the time, but perhaps he was just playing alone as could be evidenced by his later actions.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)3. PLUS ONE, a huge bunch! nt