How did we get to be ruled by minor functionaries from the failed Nixon Administartion?

Question

Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheyney, Richard Pearl, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz et al were holding the coattails of Erlichmann, Haldemann, Dean et al. When Nixon and those henchmen had to go these nobodys found themselves to be somebodys. Can anybody explain how come they are here today leading us into manufactured wars, exposing CIA agents, redefining torture, disavowing international treaties and generally making us the laughing stock of the rest of the world?.
By the way how is the new "nucular" agreement with North Korea different from the one negotiated in 1994 which the aforementionbed rascals disavowed which then led to North Korea testing its nukes?

http://www.voltairenet.org/article30042.html

Yes, the people I mentioned did come from the Nixon administration where they were nobodys. Rumsfeld had Cheyney as his personal assistant and appointed Bush to replace William Colby as CIA chief under Gerald Ford.

Answer 1

America ignored/accepted the problem,until it was too late. it is a result of blind partisanship. you left out rove,who was investigated by bush senior over his watergate involvement

Answer 2

They come from the Presidency of Bush Sr. - and their Iraq policy including the invasion, was developed there. Bush Sr. kept them on a short leash, but shrub has been happy to let them and the rest of the neocon cabal at American Enterprise Institute - run the US international policy.