Profile: Dick Cheney
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WHO: Secretary of Defense
AGE: 50
BACKGROUND: Six-term congressman from Wyoming. Early advocate of military action against Iraq after Kuwait invasion.
QUOTE: “Every day that we get additional missions in, get additional aircraft to drop ordnance on those targets, will make it that much easier when we have to use ground forces, should it come to that.”
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