Elder Bush criticizes Cheney, Rumsfeld in new biography
Source: Associated Press
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush is publicly criticizing for the first time key members of his son's administration.
A biography of the nation's 41st president to be published next week contains his sharply critical assessments of former Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
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Of Cheney, who was a member of the elder Bush's cabinet, Bush said, "He just became very hard-line and very different from the Dick Cheney I knew and worked with."
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He said he worried that the younger Bush used rhetoric that was at times too strong, citing as an example the 43rd president's 2002 State of the Union address, during which he described an "axis of evil."
"You go back to the 'axis of evil' and these things and I think that might be historically proved to be not benefiting anything," he said.
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The article points out that Poppy did not disagree with the invasion of Iraq.
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did not Sr. help pick Cheney for the VP search group that eventually selected Cheney????? 
