Dick Cheney’s “Battlefield Experience”

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I find it peculiar that Dick Cheney–who has never seen a battlefield in his life–would characterize Scooter Libby’s plight as leaving a soldier on the battlefield.

During the G.W. Bush Administration, I was struck by the fervor for military action from an inner circle who had largely not served in the U.S. armed forces.

The odd man out during the drumbeat for war was Colin Powell, whose long military career included serving in Vietnam and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His voice of caution against entanglement in Iraq resulted in his getting pushed out by the “believers.” It’s too bad they didn’t listen to the one man who knew what he was talking about.

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