Dick Cheney wants to rule the world

Or does he already? Robert Kuttner argued in the Globe on Saturday -- and it's an argument that many of us have made, but it deserves repeating -- that Cheney is "the man running the country," that "[t]he [Bush] administration's grand strategy and its implementation are the work of Cheney -- sometimes Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, sometimes Cheney and political director Karl Rove" -- but always Cheney. Indeed, "for all intents and purposes, Cheney is chief, and Bush is more in the ceremonial role of the queen of England".

One hopes that future historians will do more than our present journalists and get the story right. The truth of the Bush presidency needs to be revealed, and learned from, so that its myriad blunders, failures, and injustices may never be repeated.

You've heard most of it before, but read the whole piece.