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Malkin: "Whatever your partisan leanings, an attack planned on the Vice President of the United States is an attack on America. Some of our fellow Americans, however, can't put their sneering hatred of the White House aside."
I don't hate the White House, I love the White House. It stands for leadership and the ongoing effort to realize the values of our great nation... until january 2000. Bush and Cheney have harmed our nation and comprimised our standing in the world. What's worse, they obtained war authorization fraudulently with bogus intelligence and they snookered the Amerian people to supporting their pre-emptive war of choice in Iraq. The Bush Admin's incompentence and criminal behavior should be investigated and impeached.
That said, if Cheney were a victim of the war he started in Iraq, and that event alone caused the US to change the course and find a political solution, wouldn't we all call that the turning point? In that context, I say: Better one Dick Cheney than 3000 American fighting men and women or 600,000 Iraqi civilians. Now to be clear, I'm not advocating his death nor celebrating the possibility. I'm simply saying that if it came to pass, and that caused a revaluation of US strategy and a politcal solution, then the peace would be a desirable result.
