revdrew
I was just sitting down to write something very similar.

Notice that bizarre Cheney here doesn't have his trademark sneer.

revdrew
That should be "bizzaro Cheney", of course.

Afgh
You supported the war.

Knuckles
Yeah caminante, once you support something once you can never ever ever ever change your mind. Never. In, like, a trillion years. Not ever.

Afgh
Oh ho ho, you got me. When the premise you fall for is at a certain threshold of stupidity, "oops" is not enough.

Caminante Nocturno
Okay. To make up for it, I'll start sending half of my paycheck to wounded veterans like you do.

Screwtape

I don't think war veterans have any use for anime figurines.

Xenocide
They're right, Caminante, no one is allowed to realize a mistake and change their minds, not ever. That's the philosophy this administration has lived by and look how well they've done.

Bort
Anyone can be mistaken (for a variety of reasons), but let's draw a distinction between people who realized their mistake and changed their minds, people who realized their mistake and found excuses to continue on in error, and people who simply stopped caring because the war was no longer fun. I've got no problem with anyone who says "turns out this war was a mistake and it's time to correct that mistake" -- they are not what ails us.

GravidWithHate
So you're saying what we see on our TV's is Cheney *With* the portrait absorbing his aging, cruelty and evil? Dear sweet Jesus, to gaze on that portrait must be enough to drive a man mad, utterly irrevocably mad.

minimalist
I'm sure that's what he'd _say_, but I'm also sure it's quite far from what he actually _thinks_. For one thing, Bizarro Cheney here seems to fully grasp the implications of toppling Saddam -- civil war and all -- and had to know that we'd be no more able to head that off now, no matter how much you're expecting it. That's not something you forget, exactly, regardless of what happens to your mindset "post-911".

I honestly don't know what would lead him to think otherwise in the intervening years. Cap'n Profanity seems to have the most parsimonious explanation, but maybe I don't yet want to believe someone could be so cartoonishly evil and profit-driven. Cheney used to have a reputation of being very moderate and consensus-building back in the Senate; I think maybe what happened is that 9/11 just broke a lot of conservative minds. Something snapped, and they ended up just sort of stumbling around looking for something to hit. It would explain why some seem to have just gone frothing mad.

dr_rock
Too much text. Not reading. Summarize into several words.

minimalist
summary: nigga be crazy

Rodents of Unusual Size
Well you got being the Devi's Advocate part right.

Wombles
I'd say there was never any credible evidence of Iraq having any nuclear capability, and if there was we would never have invaded.

It really bothers me how stupid the rationale was. Its disheartening to know so many people were ready to kill/have others kill for them based it on. We haven't made significant progress since the middle ages in this regard. There's just a little more salesmanship required.

Tyfus
So we'll have to make sure it'll show up in the most viewed list. It's taking off quite nicely on SU, now to get reddit and digg over on this motherfucker.