Breaking News on Cover of Newsweek: The Quiet Power of Condi Rice -- Bush's Secret Weapon Born in ‘Bombingham,’ the enigmatic adviser has become the ‘Warrior Princess’—Bush’s secret White House weapon By Evan Thomas Dec. 16 issue — The vice president had gone too far. In a speech to the VFW on Aug. 26, Dick Cheney declared that a return of U.N. inspectors to Iraq could bring only “false comfort.” The obvious implication, at least to reporters covering the speech, was that the United States would have to go it alone to knock off Saddam Hussein and eliminate his weapons...