When properly equipped, a truck-based SUV delivers unmatched off-road prowess and can easily plow its way out of the deepest snowdrifts or mud ruts.

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This may be Cheney's way of playing Cincinnatus, the citizen-statesman who laid down his plow to return to Rome.

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