In searching for a photo to accompany this post recounting old and new instances of Dick Cheney’s Iran warmongering, I discovered something weird: Associated Press photographers had amassed a trove of shots of Cheney creepily lurking behind Dubya for eight damn years.

There was Dick Cheney, as always, arguing that the only way to deal with Iran was to bomb it back to 1953. But President George W. Bush, on the unanimous advice of his generals, decided such a campaign would be a disaster—and Cheney began an end run that’s working wonders with today’s top Republicans.