Anonymous Insiders At War

The usual string of unidentified inside sources line up to either take pot-shots at, or provide support for, Dick Cheney. From TIME:

"He has become," said a former aide still close to the White House, "one adviser among many."

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"Cheney's war is swallowing Bush's presidency," said a conservative leader who is an ally of the Vice President's. "The cost of Iraq is everything else Bush wanted to do."

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"If the VP isn't proven right until after he has kicked off, he's fine with that. The idea of being proved right before the end of his life is a false deadline in his mind. Right is right."

When are these people going to have the balls to go on record? Only once they know which wasy the dice are falling. But at least there is a realization that the dice are now rolling...