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Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam
I wouldn't agree with that - it's not like he was a puppet and you certainly can't go by the movie W..
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That allegation--that Cheney was really the one holding the strings--is several years old, and therefore predates the movie W. I think it's simplistic, but not exactly incorrect.
During the 2000 elections, I went to a speech by a PP doctor, and he was getting us all fired up about the threat to Roe v. Wade. He said, "George W. Bush may be personally stupid, but he has surrounded himself with the nation's smartest conservative minds." Of course, all presidents do that to some extent, but Bush was acutely aware of his shortcomings and selected such people as Cheney and Rice to help him out; they probably did more than their counterparts in other administrations.