George Bush listens to only extremely conservative and anti-Russian advisors

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George Bush listens to only extremely conservative and anti-Russian advisors
http://english.pravda.ru/world/
The Director of the US National Intelligence, Admiral Michael McConnell, has recently stated in the Senate that Russian President Putin was listening to only those people in his team “who are extremely conservative and suspicious of the United States.” “Those that (Putin) is listening to ... interpret things through a lens that portrays Russia as the downtrodden or (shows) we’re trying to hold them back to the advantage of the United States,” McConnell said.
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A closer look at the George W. Bush’s administration may show that closest advisors of the US president can also be described as “extremely conservative” individuals looking at the world through an ideological lens. When Dick Cheney took the position of the US Defense Secretary during the 1980s, the official did not believe in the concept of Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika. Cheney was standing strongly against the reduction of nuclear arms. Nowadays the US Vice President Dick Cheney claims that Russia uses “energy weapon” in its foreign policies.

Cheney strongly objected to direct negotiations between the USA and North Korea. The nuclear tests conducted by Pyongyang became the “remarkable outcome” of those policies. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had to convince President Bush to exclude Cheney from the group of officials working with the North Korean problem to be able to achieve progress on the matter.

Before going on a crusade against Iraq, Cheney appeared on American television threatening everyone with anthrax, which Saddam Hussein could supposedly use to kill a half of New York’s population. The US troops have never found anthrax spores in Iraq, but one can see Cheney on TV screen talking about the new danger – nuclear weapons.
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Deputy National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams is one of those politicians who initiated the US-led campaign in Iraq. Mr. Abrams can be referred to as a person of ultra-conservative views. When working in the Ronald Reagan’s administration, Elliot Abrams organized the Iran Contra affair to fund rebels in Nicaragua in spite of the fact that the US Congress banned such activities. Most likely, Abrams was not wise enough to learn the lesson: he reportedly stands behind secret operations which the USA conducts against Iran.
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Russia is ticked off and is going after Cheney and others in Bush's administration and getting quite nasty

[EFerrari]

1. Oh, come on! George Bush doesn't listen to ANYTHING.

He's a frontman and not a very good one. :shrug: