Thursday, May 04, 2006

Cheney has no regrets over Iraq invasion

The Archbishop of "Truthiness", Vice President Dick Cheney, has said that he has "no regrets" over the invasion of Iraq and still believes that the US did the right thing.

Displaying the "finger on the pulse of public opinion" instincts that see him enjoying an approval rating of 18%, the man who once voted to keep Nelson Mandela in jail said, "In the end, you can argue about the quality of the intelligence and so forth, but ... I look at that whole spectrum of possibilities and options, and I think we did the right thing."

It now transpires that most of the suspect "intelligence" emanated from Mr Cheney's own office.

To give us some further indication of the mindset of the man now occupying the number two position in the Bush administration, Mr Cheney confesses to Vanity Fair magazine that his first thought on visiting Moscow's Red Square in the 1980s was: "'Well, I guess we're at ground zero of any American nuclear strike."

Ah, the kind of warm, fuzzy feelings that would go through any diplomat's heart faced with such architectural beauty.

Moreover, Mr Cheney now seems to be adopting the Tony Blair tactic of wearing one's unpopularity as if it was a badge of the deepest honour.

"My image might be better out there, this caricature you talk about might be avoided, if I spent more time as a public figure trying to improve my image, but that's not why I'm here," he said.

Quite right. That's not why he's here. He's here to boost Haliburton's profits and to ensure regime change in Iraq, Iran and Syria.

So far he's only achieved the first two. So get out his way... or he'll shoot you in the face.

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