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The following comment over in a thread on DailyKos caught my eye tonight:

He was in Kansas City tonight

Dick said:

"Not everyone understands the threat of nuclear proliferation, in Iran or elsewhere," Cheney told members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. "But we and our allies do understand the threat, and we have a duty to prevent it."

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. - Tennyson

by bumblebums on Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 11:15:24 PM EST

Why?

I'd just seen a press conference by Dick Cheney from August 26, 2002.