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Coming Soon to HBO: Dick Cheney Miniseries

Series will explore ex-VP's 'pursuit of enhanced power'

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 21, 2011 5:21 PM CDT

(Newser) – Because The Kennedys just wasn't salacious enough, HBO is now planning a miniseries about none other than Dick Cheney: an adaptation of the biography Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by journalist Barton Gellman. The network optioned the book, which documents Cheney's career starting from his early days as chief of staff under Ford to his most famous days as Dubya's VP, Deadline reports.

The series, written by West Wing and Six Feet Under scribe Rick Cleveland, will explore Cheney's "single-minded pursuit of enhanced power for the presidency that was unprecedented in the nation's history." It'll also include the Frontline documentary, The Dark Side. So don't expect an overly rosy presentation. Click for more on the pulseless Mr Cheney.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney reacts to the crowd Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 in College Station, Texas.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney reacts to the crowd Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 in College Station, Texas.   (AP Photo/Bob Levey)
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Sir_Cancelout
Mar 23, 2011 5:13 AM CDT
FAMOUS LAST WORDS WITH DICK CHENEY [Interview in 1994 following Operation Desert Storm in Iraq] Q: Do you think the U.S., or U.N. forces, should have moved into Baghdad? A: No. Q: Why not? A: Because if we’d gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldn’t have been anybody else with us. There would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq. Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein’s government, then what are you going to put in its place? That’s a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it — eastern Iraq — the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you’ve got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey. It’s a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq. http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/08/12/cheney-vs-cheney-invasion-of-iraq-would-lead-to-quagmire/ Gee, I wonder what persuaded Cheney to change his mind? Can you say, "Halliburton"? Can you say "OIL"?
bewilderbeast
Mar 22, 2011 3:36 AM CDT
I first saw the headline as Dick Cheney Ministeries. And I thought "So the bastard's up to that scam now". Wouldn't surprise me.
myflap.blow
Mar 21, 2011 11:22 PM CDT
HBO = History Being Overwritten
 

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