PUT YOUR HAND INSIDE THE PUPPET HEAD:

Simpson berates 'hysterical' US networks (Fiachra Gibbons, October 19, 2002, The Guardian)

[John Simpson, the BBC correspondent] said George Bush was a man of below average intelligence and a "glovepuppet of his vice-president, Dick Cheney, and defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld".

One thing that's perplexing about this line of reasoning is that Mr. Rumsfeld in his last tour of duty in government was part of the apparatus of appeasing the Soviet Union and briefly served as an envoy to Saddam in the 80s, while Mr. Cheney was part of the administration that left Saddam in control of Iraq and then did business with him once out of office.
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 22, 2002 12:24 PM