"The Neoconservatives seized their moment. They allied themselves with two right-wingers in the new administration of Gerald Ford, one was Donald Rumsfeld, the new Secretary of Defense, the other was Dick Cheney..." This excerpt is from the documentary "The Power of Nightmares".

You can view & D/L the film from The Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfN...

Rumsfeld, Cheney, Richard Pipes, the gang's all here.

They lied about the Red Menace, and they're lying about the Islamic Menace. That includes the 'danger' of Iran.

Beware of recidivism:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yiiS9ykuDW4