The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. November 5, 2015 George H.W. Bush Criticizes Cheney and Rumsfeld over Response to 9/11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Former President George H.W. Bush has criticized former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld over their hawkish reaction to the September 11 attacks. In a forthcoming biography, Bush is quoted as saying Rumsfeld was "an arrogant fellow" and that Dick Cheney was "iron-ass." The biography, "Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush," by Jon Meacham, will be published next week. .