Hanson says that the sensational hype about the book is mostly nonsense. Why am I not surprised? Cheney worked for many mainstream people and was almost always a second banana.
I suspect that liberals' cherished belief that Cheney was the dark eminence behind the Bush 43 foreign policy is, and always was, exaggerated. W knew what he wanted to do but, like all presidents, listened to the advice of several others, Cheney among them.
