Dick Cheney channels Baghdad Bob

Who can forget the surreal footage of Saddam Hussein's Information Minister talking of the city's impregnability while American armored vehicles rolled in the streets? The thing is, he was probably in a spot where saying what he did was a pretty good way to save his own life. What's Dick Cheney's excuse?

Example 1: When Cheney said that the United States would be in a "terrible situation" today if Saddam Hussein were still in power, Blitzer interrupted to say that "there is a terrible situation" in Iraq anyway. Cheney shot back: "No, there is not. There is not. There's problems, ongoing problems, but we have, in fact, accomplished our objectives of getting rid of the old regime, and there is a new regime in place that's been there for less than a year, far too soon for you guys to write them off. They have got a democratically written constitution, first ever in that part of the world. They've had three national elections. So there's been a lot of success."

Example 2:

Blitzer: Here's what Jim Webb, senator from Virginia, said in his Democratic response last night. He said: "The president took us into the war recklessly. We are now, as a nation, held hostage to the predictable and predicted disarray that has followed." And it's not just Jim Webb, it's some of your good Republican friends in the Senate and the House, are now seriously questioning your credibility because of the blunders, of the failures ...

Cheney: Wolf, Wolf, I simply don't accept the premise of your question. I just think it's hogwash.