Cheney alone as foreign -policy heavy

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - Most of the war hawks who stood with President Bush on Iraq are gone or departing, leaving Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney increasingly without much company in trumpeting steely resolve.

And it is Cheney who stands out as the administration's foreign-policy heavy, as Bush combines his war rhetoric with overtures to Democrats who control Congress.

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Only Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice remain from Bush's first-term war council. And Rice is pursuing diplomatic initiatives, focusing more attention on broader Middle East peace issues than on the Iraq war.

Sometimes Cheney's muscular messages, such as those he sounded on his just-ended trip to the Middle East, seem at odds with more modulated ones coming from other parts of the administration, including a new diplomatic overture to Iran and conciliatory remarks by the president toward Democrats on a war spending bill.

"I think what they've decided finally to do is to play good cop, bad cop instead of bad cop, bad cop as they've been doing for six years," said GOP consultant Rich Galen. "The good cop, bad cop scenario only works if the `bad cop' is believable. Cheney is eminently believable. It's a role in which I think he is very comfortable."

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070521/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_tough_diplomacy_2


keep drinking the koolaid Rich :rofl:

[bemildred]

1. Cheney is irrelevant.

He can posture all he likes, but nobody gives a shit anymore.