Reply #28: Julie, this is the answer to why we rushed to war in Iraq...

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/031013/usnews/13cheney_4.htm

Such reliance, evidently, has its pluses and minuses. "Bush wasn't sure of himself on foreign affairs. Cheney was," says a Bush family insider. "If Cheney were not vice president, it would've been different. The Iraq war situation would've been handled differently. There was a rush to judgment to go to war, all filtered through Cheney. If Cheney had not been there, there may have been a second chance for the weapons inspectors, we would've been slower to move to war, and, maybe, we would have organized a bigger coalition."

This is from page 4 of a long article about the puppetmaster Cheney, the cover story from this week's U. S. News. You might want to read the entire piece.