Cheney-Rumsfeld

If there was a lack of intellectual energy at the White House, however, there was a plentiful supply elsewhere in the Bush government, most notably among its neoconservatives, who were itching to give Iraq a taste of American power, and in what might be called the Cheney-Rumsfeld faction, built around two masterful old Washington manipulators.

Condi and the Boys Baker, Russell 2008

Well! We certainly wouldn't want such a smudge on that paragon of purity known as Cheney-Rumsfeld 'leadership'. here to register.

CommonDreams.org Headlines 2009

But when the Cheney-Rumsfeld Axis set up their occupation shop in Iraq, they learned that the proposals ran directly counter to the law of belligerent occupation.

The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey 2010

"Failed States" (Metropolitan/Owl), "The Cheney-Rumsfeld team for which Bush is the front man has shown repeatedly that it is obsessed with authority and discipline."

Time To Interrogate Dick Cheney 2009

We ought to have the Cheney-Rumsfeld ticket in 2012–The Empire Strikes Back.

About Dick Cheney: How the Old Media Creates a False Attack - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009

And normalizing war, so that the executive could use the military as a mercenary force without any strings attached or any responsibility to the public, was the grand plan of the Cheney-Rumsfeld axis.

Matthew Yglesias » Strategic Reset 2007

Well, we all quickly learned that the scenario didn't unfold the way the Cheney-Rumsfeld neo-cons said it would.

McCain's Painful Dilemma: Iraq as Vietnam 2.0 2008

This is the first call by members of Congress for an expansion of Fitzgerald's probe, amid mounting evidence that there was a well-orchestrated effort by what former State Department aide Larry Wilkerson dubbed last week, "the Cheney-Rumsfeld axis" to hijack US foreign policy and knowingly mislead the Congress in order to get its support for an unlawful war.

Katrina vanden Heuvel: Fitzgerald Must Broaden Investigation 2008

By midway through the administration, Colin Powell found himself odd man out; outmaneuvered on every front by the Cheney-Rumsfeld alliance and a neoconservative takeover of policy that left him isolated from the Bush team.

Hillary Rodham Powell? 2008

This, of course, was also the period that gave rise to the Cheney-Rumsfeld, Addington-Yoo, blue state-red state carving up of America into us versus them and the anti-Constitutional "unitary executive" imperial consolidation of power.

Gary Hart: A President of All the People 2008