Karl Rove warned President George W. Bush as far back as 1999 that picking Dick Cheney as his vice president would result in problems, according to a new book by a top GQ national correspondent.

The Washington Post reports today on just some of the revelations within “Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush,” in which journalist Robert Draper asserts that Bush was intent on picking Cheney as his running mate, despite strong warnings from Rove against it.

“Selecting Daddy’s top foreign-policy guru ran counter to message. It was worse than a safe pick — it was needy,” Draper quotes Rove as saying. Draper added that Bush “saw no harm in giving his VP unprecedented run of the place.”

Washington sources told blogger Wayne Madsen earlier this year about a strange recent rift between Bush and Cheney over U.S. Iran policy.

Cheney and the remaining neo-cons inside the Bush administration reporedly favored quick and decisive U.S. military action against Iran while Bush, backed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, favored the diplomatic negotiations with Iran, particularly the Baghdad Green Zone talks concerning Iraq’s security.

Bush reportedly bristled at Cheney’s suggestion that he is a “wimp.”