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March 12, 2007

Dick Cheney and "The Colonel Klink Rule"

ick Cheney's on the stump again vigorously trashing all opponents of the Bush/Cheney policy of stying in Iraq until, well, who knows.

Cheney accuses the adults in Congress of giving "full validation of the Al Qaeda strategy." Is that a joke?

Cheney's hot-air rhetoric reminds me of Colonel Klink from the TV show Hogan's Heros. Klink was the bumbling Luftwaffe POW Camp commandant of Stalag 13. In one episode, an Allied bomb lands unexploded in the middle of the camp. Hogan, of course, is picked to diffuse the undetonated bomb. With Klink looking over his shoulder, Hogan has only seconds to choose one of two wires to cut to disarm the bomb. Hogan asks Klink which wire to cut. On cue, after Klink picks the red wire, Hogan cuts the blue one . . . and the bomb is disarmed.

The problem with what Cheney is this. Everything. As in everything he's said about Iraq has been wrong. Just ask Tim Russert.

Cheney led the war cry to abandon capturing Bin Laden -- remember Bush at a press conference saying he doesn't even think about Bin Laden anymore -- so we could invade Iraq because of (a) WMDs, (b) spreading Democracy, (c) Saddam was a bad man, (d) we can change the world with military force and the invasion will pay for itself, or (e) none of the above.

And Just what exactly is the "Al Qaeda Strategy" Cheney talks so vaguely about. Let's see, is it hoping that American Troops get bogged down occupying an Arab country to create a rallying point for Islamic radicals? Just like the Soviets were stuck in Afghanistan in the '70s? How 'bout having American troops invade an Arab country, occupy it, and allow for wannabe Islamic terrorists to get hands-on training killing and maiming innocent people?

So when Cheney starts accusing Americans of validating Al Qaeda's strategy, we should embrace whatever these Americans have to say. Because it's better than 5 to 1 that Cheney's pulling a Klink . . . uh-gain.

Posted by shertaugh at March 12, 2007 4:00 PM

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Posted by: WillR at March 12, 2007 9:21 PM