Dick Cheney

Richard Bruce Cheney (born the January 30th 1941), known as Dick Cheney , is a Business man and a American Politician , member of the Republican party. It is the 46e Vice-président of the United States of America, in station since 2001 at the side of the president George W. Bush.

Personal life

Dick Cheney was born with Lincoln, Nebraska and grew with Casper, Wyoming. He is the son of Richard Herbert Cheney, agent of the federal department of agriculture and Marjorie Dickey Cheney.

He excels during his schooling as well in progress as in sport and is graduate in 1959.

He enters the working life immediately while working on the electric lines of the local company of electricity. He also integrates Yale thanks to a school purse, but it is at the university of the Wyoming that he will obtain his control in Political science in 1966.

In 1964, it Marie with Lynne Vincent, met with the college, and he will have two children, Elizabeth (born in 1966) and Mary (born in 1968).

Dick Cheney will be exempted of military service because of her statute of student and young father of two infants.

It enters as of the end of the Années 1960 the political life.

Political career

The political career of Dick Cheney starts in 1969 in the administration of Richard Nixon, with the center even of the White House.

Under the presidency of Gerald Ford, Cheney becomes General secretary of the presidency. At that time, with Donald Rumsfeld, secretary with defense, he is opposed to the policy of appeasing of Henry Kissinger that the two men considered too soft with regard to the Soviet Union.

In 1976, it directs the countryside of Gerald Ford to the side of James Baker. In 1978, Cheney is elected as a republican with the federal Congress where it represents Wyoming and will be unceasingly re-elected until in 1989.

From these years to the Congress, one reproaches him for having refused to vote in favor one bank holiday in the honor of the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr. and to have voted against the creation of the federal department of education. One also reproaches him for having voted against the imposition of economic sanctions against the South Africa and the mode of Apartheid and to have qualified Nelson Mandela and ANC of terrorist and terrorist organization.

It was also illustrated by the defense of the oil interests and the business world. From 1989, he becomes the secretary with the defense of the president George Bush father (1989 - 1993).

It is in this function that it supervises the operation “Right causes” with the Panama and the operation “Tempête of the desert” to the Kuwait in 1991, year when it receives the presidential medal of freedom “to have ensured the defense of America in times of great international upheavals”.

In 1993, Cheney joined the Think tank (think tank) néo-conservative American Enterprise Institute (American Institute of the Company) after the defeat of George Bush to the presidential elections.

Of 1995 with 2000, it directs the company of civil engineering Halliburton specialized in oil industry. The fact that this company could obtain large contracts in Iraq in 2003 will be very strongly reproached to him by its political opponents.

In 1997, with Donald Rumsfeld and others, it founds the think tank PNAC ( Project for the New American Century ) - “Project for a new American century” - of which the goal is to promote the total leadership of the United States to the 21e century.

In 1998, it is one of the signatories of a letter addressed to Bill Clinton to ask for the inversion of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

In 2000, in spite of a fragile health following several heart attacks, it even chooses him to be republican candidate with the vice-presidency at the side of George W. Bush under the instigation of this last, resigns of its functions with Halliburton and yields most of its titles at organizations of charity. The same year, Cheney joined like member the Advisory counsel of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA).

In January 2001, it becomes Vice-président of the United States.

The vice-president

As of the beginning, Cheney tested takes the things in hand and appears the most powerful vice-president that the country knew until there. It is given the responsability to still guide the Bush young person beginner on many subjects of internal or international policy. Some of its detractors even say that he is the true president of the United States, at least in the first months of the Bush administration. Cheney takes in hand the direction of the group in charge of the development of the energy policy including among her members of the leaders of the group Enron in spite of the resounding bankruptcy of this one. In July 2003, the Supreme court will order with the group to return public its documents including of information confidential on the energy policy and the revelation of possible conflicts of interests among the participants. The September 11th, 2001, Cheney takes directly charges management with it with the crisis following the attacks whereas the president is physically put at the shelter and in the temporary incapacity to exert his functions. During a certain time, Cheney will be him as put physically at the variation to avoid being at the same place as the president and being with him the target of an attack.

The June 29th 2002, Dick Cheney becomes the second vice-president with excercer by interim the president's function during a hospitalization of president Bush. Its detractors show it to have pushed the president with the invasion of Iraq while pleading in particular for an military operation against Saddam Hussein without the preliminary sasine of UNO, to have affirmed that the dictator had chemical weapons and bacteriological and that it had given on the way his production schedule of an atomic bomb. Dick Cheney is also marked to have persisted in wrongly supporting existence of bonds between the Iraqi mode and Al-Qaida and affirming that the American soldiers “would be accommodated as liberators” by the population.

Bonds with Halliburton

Its bonds with oil industry are reproached to him and it is shown to be intervened so that Halliburton, obtains large rebuilding and supply agreements to the armies. This charge is undoubtedly weakest in its file with load because in spite of the most severe checks, only one document exists in this direction. It is in fact email of the Pentagon indicating that “the attribution of a contract of 7 billion dollars to a subsidiary company of Halliburton, without invitation to tender, in March 2003, was approved on all the levels, including the cabinet of Mr. Cheney”. The Pentagon exonerates Mr. Cheney because this required “green light” aimed at making sure that Dick Cheney, likely to be regarded as person in charge of a preferential treatment for her old company, did not see a disadvantage so that this contract is awarded without setting in concurrence".

Dick Cheney received nearly 1.350.000 stock-options on behalf of Halliburton, of a full value higher than 43 million dollars.

The second mandate

The June 22nd 2004, in full electoral campaign, the frank speech known of Cheney does the one of the newspapers when he insults (" publicly; … go fuck yourself ") the Democratic senator of Vermont, Patrick Leahy, one of its principal detractors. The November 2nd 2004, Dick Cheney is re-elected at the side of George W. Bush. In February 2005, it confirms that he will not be candidate with the presidency in 2008.

The Valerie Plame business

In October 2005, Dick Cheney is shown in an article of the NewYork Times to have revealed with its principal private secretary, Lewis Libby, the identity of a secret agent of the CIA, Valerie Plame. It would be then indirectly with the origne of the criminal disclosure to the press of the identity of this agent. This assertion of NewYork Times contradicts the declarations of Mr. Libby, who says to have learned the identity from Limes by journalists. To reveal the identity of an agent of the CIA is a federal crime in the United States whereas Dick Cheney is regarded as a historical adversary of the Power station of information whose he denounces since the end of the year the 1980 failures and the insufficiencies (incapacity to envisage the disappearance of the Soviet Union, incapacity to envisage the invasion of the Kuwait by Saddam Hussein, little of information on the Iraqi arsenal…). It would have thus tried to use the CIA as scapegoat to have inflated the extent of the programs of weapons of massive destruction of Saddam Hussein and to have provided false information to the government on the purchase of uranium to the Niger by Iraq. Lewis Libby was accused the October 28th 2005 to have revealed the identity of Valerie Plame.

Business of the shooting party

the February 11th 2006, during a shooting party in Texas, by aiming at a ruail, Dick Cheney wounds Harry Whittington, one of its partners, a 78 year old lawyer. Information met 24 hours to be filtered and is initially the subject of jokes, sour comments and humor ravageurs, NewYork Times (" The vice-president apparently behaved as a teenager who thinks that, if it does not say anything on the accident, nobody will not realize that the door of the family car was arrachée") with Jeb Bush raising a humorous badge while passing by David Letterman (" Bin Laden was not caught, but there was a lawyer of 78 ans"), the humorist Andy Borowitz (" Cheney blames an error of the services of renseignement") to the Democratic senator Patrick Leahy, who had been insulted by the vice-president in June 2004, estimating that it was " finally well tiré". The tone abruptly changed, on February 14th, when the victim of Dick Cheney underwent a Heart attack due to a lead placed in its rib cage and descended close to the heart. If the vice-president had suddenly been responsible for a manslaughter, a large jury should be joined together to establish if there were negligence on behalf of Mr. Cheney.

Attack

The February 27th 2007, a attack-suicide made 23 dead and 20 wounded outside an American military base in Afghanistan, visited at the same time by Dick Cheney. A spokesperson of the Taliban S asserted the attack for his group and specified that Cheney was the target aimed by the attack. The vice-president known as to have heard the explosion, but was in safety inside at this time.

Political republican

Dick Cheney with Donald Rumsfeld is catalogued as a nationalist republican, not to confuse with the Néo-conservatives with which it shares many ideas. Dick Cheney is defined even as being to him “very on the right”.

One of his/her daughters, Mary Cheney, is homosexual (and activist) and, unlike Mr. Bush, Cheney estimates that the matrimonial modes raise of the States and that the federal government does not have to interfere itself.

All in all, Dick Cheney is in favor of a State as minimal as possible.

It is an enthusiastic adversary of the right to the abortion and in favor of the firearms of all categories, including the balls borer-shielding.

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