Dick Cheney reveals the truth in interviews

This past week Dick Cheney was interviewed by Fox News and ABC News. With less than 30 days left in office, Cheney talked about his past eight years working with the Bush administration, in which he said he had no regrets or apologies. Cheney, who Joe Biden called the "most dangerous" vice-president in US history, said several things that troubled me during the interviews.

1. He suggested that the Bush administration would have gone to war with Iraq even without intelligence proving that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction.

2. He said that he approves of coercive interrogation tactics, including waterboarding.

3. He said that in the event of a nuclear attack, the president should not need any permission to launch a nuclear weapon back, and start a nuclear war. He was quoted as saying (on the topic of launching a nuclear weapon) “The president doesn’t have to check with anybody. He doesn’t have to call the Congress. He doesn’t have to check with the courts. He has that authority because of the nature of the world we live in".

4. Although we are still at war in Iraq, and our economy is going down the drain, and we have not caught Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind 9/11 and whole reason we started the "war on terror", Cheney still said "I'm very comfortable with where we are and what we've achieved".

5. He did not regret or apologize for saying "fuck off" on the senate floor to Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont.

6. He doesn't believe politicians should follow polls, and shouldn't use them as a measure of how good, or in his case bad, of a job they are doing. He was quoted as saying "Frankly I would not want to be one of those guys who spends all his time reading the polls. I think people like that shouldn’t serve in these jobs".



Is it just me, or is there a serious problem with Dick Cheney? The majority of Americans agree with me that Cheney was a horrible vice president. In a recent poll conducted by CNN, 1 out of every 5 US citizens said that Cheney was the worst VP in American history. In addition, 64% of those polled said that Cheney was either the worst VP or a poor VP. However, there were still 34% that said Cheney was a good VP, and an entire 1% that thought he was the best VP in American history.



After further study, the poll showed that 100% of the 1% who said Cheney was the best VP have a mental illness. And that is some real talk.