Quiet Cheney finally speaks up

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: March 17, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

As constitutional president of the Senate, Dick Cheney almost always attends the Tuesday luncheon of Republican senators. He almost never says anything. But at last week's session, he spoke out--at length, vigorously and in a way that revealed the Bush administration's secret concerns and real intentions about Iraq.

To begin with, Vice President Cheney sought to allay worries about President Bush's leadership stemming from his unusual press conference a week earlier. Next came reassurance that failing efforts for a second United Nations resolution on Iraq were intended to bail out the British ...

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