Empire of Oil
Most of the gang of adventurers who hold strategic positions in the Bush II administration honed their Machiavellian skills in the Reagan and Bush I administrations. Some such as Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld go back to the Ford administration in the mid-1970s. In their political exile during the Clinton terms many of them found employment in an incestuous network of right-wing think tanks and quasi-academic institutions plotting their return to power while advancing an imperial agenda.
