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Roachboy: at the same time, it is clear that cheney is playing the administration's bad cop. i do not believe that george w bush is so wholly out of it that the kind of policies now associated with cheney and rumsfeld could be developed and implemented without his knowledge. bush is presented as the affable dunce--cheney/rumsfeld as the darkside--but i think that is mostly rovespin geared toward preventing the president from being held politically to account for the debacles his administration has foisted on the rest of us.
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I agree that there has been an effort to afford Bush "plausible deniabilty" should things go badly. Cheney may even be willing to resign, or better, allow Bush to fire him to promote that belief among the public. But what would the public be left to think of Bush at that turn of events? He would become the dupe that many have always believed him to be and that would become the legacy of his presidency.
Another prospect may face him now that his daily intelligence briefs are being leaked.