Cheney Made Even Dubya's Eyes Roll

[karlhenning]

Read all about it!

[Todd]

Wait, I thought Cheney really ran things.  Now I might have to change my worldview.

[eyeresist]

Thanks, Karl, for this very interesting story.

This last paragraph seems fantastical:

At the CIA afterward, the group of specialists who had worked for months on the Syrian reactor issue were pleased they had succeeded in avoiding the overreaching so evident in the Iraq WMD case. So they issued a very limited-circulation memorial coin. One side showed a map of Syria with a star at the site of the former reactor. On the other side the coin said, "No core/No war."

[kishnevi]

Thanks, Karl, for this very interesting story.

This last paragraph seems fantastical:

Apparently, the CIA has a practice of issuing these sort of souvenirs where a public recognition or honor would not be feasible because of the secretive nature of the operation, or the need to keep the staff's position as a CIA agent secret.

[eyeresist]

I just have an image of a windowless meeting room in which a bunch of bland men in suits award each other medals all day long...

[Daverz]

If you remember back to 2000, one of the selling points for Bush was that, sure, he wasn't the brightest guy in the room, but he had smart people around him, like Dick Cheney.

[eyeresist]

[/terrible irony]

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

I've read in some sources that Cheney wanted to "intervene militarily" to help Georgia in its war with Russia in 2008.

Not only would that have been personally inconvenient for me, it might have led to the world being blown up with nuclear weapons.

[eyeresist]

Not only would that have been personally inconvenient for me, it might have led to the world being blown up with nuclear weapons.

[karlhenning]

I've read in some sources that Cheney wanted to "intervene militarily" to help Georgia in its war with Russia in 2008.

That wacky Cheney and his trigger-finger!