Cheney’s Shadow

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What role the Vice President may have played in the decision to launch the ill-fated Basra offensive has been the subject of considerable speculation, in large part because of the timing of the operation, just a week after Cheney’s visit to the country.

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) asked Ambassador Crocker today whether the Basra operation had ever come up during Cheney’s visit. Crocker denied that it had:

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