Cheney Jumps the Shark

Vice President Cheney has made some ridiculous claims in the last few years. This one though, it's the best yet.

Cheney told supporters that Kerry had run for the U.S. Senate in the 1980s on a promise to do away with many of the weapons that U.S. President Ronald Reagan used to end the Cold War.

"So if John Kerry had been in charge, maybe the Soviet Union would still be in business," President Bush's running mate said on a campaign trip to the swing state of New Mexico.

Mr. Cheney, how can you expect to be taken seriously? Kerry went to Vietnam after college to fight the spread of communism (at least that's what he thought when he enlisted). Mr. Cheney got five deferments. Maybe we should say that if wars had to be fought solely by Cheney and Bush we would get our ass kick because they simply wouldn't fight at all. Is that out of line compared with what Cheney was spewing?

I guess we should also ask Cheney about his involvement in allowing Pakistan to acquire nuclear material. Since Cheney has his crystal ball out, why doesn't he look in there and see what would have happened if Rummy hadn't gone to Iraq in the 1980s and given evil, nasty Saddam his fabled WMDs to use against Iran and the Kurds (HIS OWN PEOPLE!). How about what would have happened if Halliburton hadn't done business with Libya and Iraq? Why not go all the way back to see what would have happened if the CIA hadn't laid the seeds of terror in Iran and Afghanistan?

That's in the past Pat and you're blaming America first.

Ah yes...I forgot. I must have thought it was still September 10th or something. So to summarize, every single thing Kerry has never done in the past may have lead to horrible, horrible consequences whereas everything that Bush and Cheney have done in the past is in the past and is no longer relevant to anything that may or may not happen in any version of the future.

Got it? The rules are different for them. I can't wait till they're all fired.