This Has To Be...

The Understatement Of The Year- Or possibly the decade, or at least the biggest understatement so far in this century: "...Cheney's predictions about how Iraq would play out have proven optimistic." (New York Daily News November 9; Dubya-Cheney ties frayed by scandal by THOMAS M. DeFRANK).
Now, this isn't exactly news, and it was always clear to anybody who ever read a history book that "They'll throw flowers at us" was such a misreading of the possible ways human beings act that, right then and there, Dick Cheney should have been permanently sealed inside his bunker-at-an-undisclosed-location. Alas, it was not to be; as here we see...( A simple but apparently overlooked fact about the way humans are.).
If Mr. Cheney had simply listened to his inner demon, and acknowledged that there are others who respond in ways similar to the way he does (that is to say; subdue, kill or enslave), he would have better understood the dynamic in his chosen vassal country and perhaps been dissuaded from continuing the Vietnamization of Iraq. As Senator, then war protester, John Kerry famously said: "Who will be the last soldier to die in Vietnam (Iraq)?"