Breaking news: Dick Cheney tells a lie

What a bunch of crap! Is Vice just delusional or is he really evil?

Attytood: Breaking news: Dick Cheney tells a lie:

"Taking down Saddam Hussein was exactly the right thing to do.

It's also, I think, in part responsible for the fact that we haven't been hit again in nearly five years. That's no accident. The fact is, we've taken the battle to the enemy. That's been the key to the safety and security of the American people these last few years, and we need to continue to do it. And we need to make certain that Iraq doesn't become a failed state, but instead the Iraqi people have an opportunity for self-government. And that's exactly what we're doing.

Well, a part of that is true: There has been no major terrorist attack on U.S, soil since 9/11/01. But since the issue at hand is Iraq, there has never been an attack of America by, or sponsored, by Iraq going all the way back to, oh, July 4, 1776, at least.

Does Cheney attribute the fact that we've never been attacked by Iraq for 230 years to the March 2003 invasion? -- that's what we would call a post-preemptive war, we guess. Or maybe it was the electronic surveillance program of President George Washington.

In the same interview, Cheney goes onto to say that '[t]here have been attacks all over the world, in London and Madrid and Bali and Istanbul, as well as New York and Washington; that the key to our success to date has been to actively and aggressively go on offense.'"