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Appearing on MSNBC this afternoon, Congressional Quarterly political analyst Craig Crawford speculated that, as “neocons are heading for the hills,” Dick Cheney may be the next to leave the administration. He claimed the Vice President’s “authority is waning, if not gone.” “And my point is why would he want to stick around in this environment?” he asked. “All I’m seeing is a man getting isolated more and more.”
If you read the full transcript below, Chris Matthews rightly suggests that Crawford is an idiot.
By Pepe Escobar We are in dire need of Iran’s help in establishing security and stability in Iraq. - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, November 27, in Tehran As dozens of people a day (sometimes a couple of hundred a day), every single …