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VP CHENEY RUNS EXECUTIVE BRANCH.(OPINION)(Letter to the editor)

Article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) Article date: July 4, 2007

Not only is Vice President Dick Cheney part of our government's executive branch, he runs the executive branch.

On Sept. 11, 2001, while President Bush was being moved from one place to another and the news media reported each movement, Cheney was in an undisclosed location. The man in charge was being protected, not his Little Bush puppet.

We need to remove the puppet master and cut the strings of all his wooden friends.

- Dennis McKeown, Milton

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