Cheney's political career began in 1969, as an intern for Congressman William A. Steiger during the Richard Nixon Administration. He then joined the staff of Donald Rumsfeld, who was then Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity from 1969–70.<12> He held several positions in the years that followed: White House Staff Assistant in 1971, Assistant Director of the Cost of Living Council from 1971–73, and
Deputy Assistant to the president from 1974–1975. It was in this position that Cheney suggested in a memo to Rumsfeld that the Ford administration should use the US Justice Department in a variety of legally questionable ways to exact retribution for an article published by The New York Times investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.<18><19>
Cheney was Assistant to the President under Gerald Ford. When Rumsfeld was named Secretary of Defense, Cheney became White House Chief of Staff, succeeding Rumsfeld.<12> He later was campaign manager for Ford's 1976 presidential campaign.<20>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney#Early_White_House_appointments Cheney and Rumsfeld both access to classified documents, such as Operation Northwoods, for many many years before they became public knowledge. They've had plenty of time to plan an "Operation Northwoods version 2.0"... aka 9-11
George W Bush was a puppethead, no more, no less. It was Jeb Bush, a fellow PNACer, who was supposed to run in 2000, but his loss in Florida put a damper on that, imho..... all George the Dumber knew was that he was going to get to be president, and he could dress up in little uniforms and wave at his mommy...
Follow the neocon trail for the path to 9-11. Forget about "no planes" and "video fakery", those are disinfo campaigns designed to make the truth movement look like looney tunes. If you want to talk about switched planes, or planes that the auto-pilots had been hacked and remote controlled, we can go there.
Peace,
Ghost