The father and daughter who war-monger together

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http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/06/16/the-father-and-daughter-who-war-monger-together/


The Cheney tag team is in the ring at the same time versus Iran.

In recent days we’ve seen headlines from Bush’s European farewell tour like this from the London Times: “President George Bush starts talking language of a dove.” Also, in an apparent admission that his beef with Iran might not be settled during his presidency, Bush, as reported by Agence France Press, said: “I’ll leave behind a multilateral framework to work this issue.”

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Worse, Cheney’s aide-de-nepotism — daughter, Elizabeth — despite leaving her job as deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs two years ago after the birth of her fifth child, has once again rallied to his cause. At the recent AIPAC conference, “Deferment Baby”* attacked her former boss, Condoleezza Rice, and her policies, such as seeking a peace accord between Israel and the Palestinian Authority before Bush leaves office.

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The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes (Cheney’s favorite writer according to Lobe) chimed in by accusing Rice of betraying the Bush Doctrine. Lobe concludes that Hayes and Elizabeth’s closeness to the vice president and “views are so harsh and so public suggests to me that Cheney feels more confident than he has felt for some time.”

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*The title of an article on Slate four years ago by Timothy Noah, who wrote that her “birth date falls precisely nine months and two days after the Selective Service publicly revoked its policy of not drafting childless husbands.” That is, pere Cheney, needed a child to continue to evade the draft.
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