Cheney sought Rice's role at National Security Council, Vanity Fair to report

Guess he didn't think the maid could handle the job...

Guess he was right.

But neither could he, unless his only motive for invading Iraq was the war profiteering.

The Raw Story Cheney sought Rice's role at National Security Council, Vanity Fair to report:

"Bush apparently gave Cheney power to preside over National Security Council meetings

Shortly after taking office, Vice President Dick Cheney fought to take over one of the national security adviser's key duties, claims an unnamed ex-official in the June issue of Vanity Fair.
'At one point early in this Bush administration, a former official tells me, Cheney wanted to chair meetings of the National Security Council 'principals'; the secretaries of state and defense, the C.I.A. director, and so on, in Bush's absence, co-opting the usual role of the national security adviser, then Condoleezza Rice,' writes Vanity Fair national editor Todd Purdum in an advance copy provided by the magazine to RAW STORY."