Interesting article in Newsweek on Cheney.

[napi21]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19886673/site/newsweek/

In 30 hours of interviews, Hayes did not get Cheney to open up much about his thoughts or emotions. (Hayes's previous book on Al Qaeda's "collaboration" with Saddam Hussein must have smoothed access to the notoriously tight-lipped vice president.) He did, however, get Cheney to admit error, almost unheard of by the Bush administration. In hindsight, Cheney tells Hayes, the mechanism for postwar governance in Iraq was a failure. The administration would have been better off letting the Iraqis govern themselves from the outset. "I think the Coalition Provisional Authority was a mistake, wasted valuable time," Cheney said. And from Hayes's other interviews, it is possible to get a glimpse into Cheney's threat-obsessed world, especially post-9/11.

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At one point, security officials believed that the home belonging to Elizabeth Cheney, the veep's daughter, had been hit by an anthrax attack. Elizabeth had to call her nanny to get her to take the kids to "the mall," as she put it—so they could be tested for exposure.

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But it is clear that Cheney sees through a glass darkly. He goes fly-fishing as much as he can and says as little as possible. If he spoke out, he might say that he worries so that the rest of us may sleep. It is also possible, however, that by striking out at imagined demons, he is creating real ones.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

1. Thats not what I remember as happening RE: Veep, a Home, and Anthrax~

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11436302/site/newsweek/
A few weeks after 9/11, NEWSWEEK has learned, Cheney worried that he and his family and his staff might have been exposed in an anthrax attack. According to knowledgeable former officials, a mysterious letter turned up at the vice president's mansion. (A former senior law-enforcement official recalled that sensors went off.) The alarm turned out to be false. Still, to be safe, Cheney and his entourage began taking Cipro, the powerful antibiotic. The story was hushed up.