Listening to Dick Cheney attack Democrats and all those who oppose his senseless and selfish war is ludicrous, and it's insulting. The man engineered this war to stuff money into the pockets of his Halliburton cronies. We're actually supposed to sit around and listen to this jack-off?

Impeach this danger to us all!

How nice to see Sen. Kerry finally using well-constructed, concise phrases.

We're glad to help.

http://www.pookastew.com/k123/2004/10/smear-and-fear.html

As Mr. Cheney concluded his remarks, his pants burst into flames.

Honestly, at what point do the caverns of hell open beneath his feet and swallow him up?

Why did he have to squeeze in his military service in that? It starts off so strong...and then it just goes on. His comments read much better if you skip over that line.

It could have been said in about 2 or 3 sentences.

Chills play about my spine when I encounter passages like the War Room piece. This comes up in Wikipedia when you search on "Big Lie":

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it. - OSS report [on Adolf Hitler]

And didn't our present leader's granddad do a lot of business with the subject of that report?

I voted for John Kerry in the last election. The things he is saying now are the things he was saying then. Then, enough people believed the fear and smear tactics to give Bush and Voodoo Priest Cheney the White House again.

Nearly a year into the second term and things couldn't be more fouled up than they are now on every single front. John Kerry was right about everything he said in 2004. Not only right, but forward looking and perceptive. Assuming he does revive his bid for the Presidency in 2008, and I hope he will, the Republicans will not be able to field a credible candidate to beat him, given the way the wheels are coming off now. No one believes these thugs anymore. At the moment, Kerry is looking the most, God help me, presidential, of anyone in this whole debacle.

About the only thing that could make this worse for the GOP is more charges and an impeachment process of Bush or Cheney or both. Like I said, if we're all talking about that in the next year or so, YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST.

I am happy to hear John Kerry provide some balance to the current debate on Iraq. I believe his military history is relevant in this debate since the Bush team has none. John Kerry volunteered to fight in a war based on a lie. He knowns, first hand, the horror of war and the agony of loss without justification. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld did not serve in the military. Their decisions to sacrifice American lives in military action are not tempered by the experience of a decorated veteran of live fire. Their only veteran of live fire, Colin Powell, was marginalized and dismissed. While I do not believe military service should be a prerequisite for being president, I do believe decisions to put our soldiers in harms way should be tempered by that experience. Because the Bush team does not allow naysayers to contribute, they deprive themselves of that decision making asset. John Kerry, whose military service is not a lie, is perhaps the only national figure who can honestly make the case against the self serving lies of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

So "the dick" thinks that some politicians don't have any backbone.

It's nice to know that someone of such Great Courage is in charge in Washington. Cheney is a person of fortitude and persistence, who will fight to the last drop of blood... of other people's children.

The dick certainly has what it takes.

Would be nice if someone/group with deep pockets could afford to put a full page ad in major papers one day each week to replay the Cheney/Bush lies, misrepresentations and outright bad judgment/guesses.

To paraphrase Cheney's comments:

" . . . we're not going to sit by and let [Cheney and Bush] rewrite history. We're going to continue throwing their own words back at them."

Most Salon readers will have noticed that Kerry's quote includes Cheney's own words for why he remained comfortably stateside and civilian during Vietnam (he had "other priorities").

I'm not a Kerry cheerleader--I hope we have an even better candidate in 2008--but I love to see chickenhawks like Cheney get fried in their own fat.

Cheney claims the Democratic criticism of what is at best misrepresentation of the intellligence that was gathered and at worst an outright lie is irresponsible. What kind of a Orwellian world is this that a lie is "responsible" and the truth "irresponsible"?