Brit SecDef: Cheney Called Shots on Iraq

Wow. This is the former British Secretary of Defense, Geoff Hoon, who was in that position at the onset of the war and in the inner circle as decisions were being made.

"Sometimes ... Tony had made his point with the president, and I'd made my point with Don [Rumsfeld] and Jack [Straw] had made his point with Colin [Powell] and the decision actually came out of a completely different place. And you think: what did we miss? I think we missed Cheney."

That's a body blow to the president, who has always sold himself as the powerful leader (though why anyone would buy it is beyond me). Now we hear from someone who sat in on the decision making process for the very biggest decisions of Bush's presidency - and Bush was at the kid's table.

Expect a huge and swift pushback from this.

He says a lot more, much of it offensively dismissive to the admitted mistakes in Iraq.