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Do you really believe that politicians of any stripe who run their mouths all the time remember 1/2 of what they say?

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Cheney was not lying the midst of a political campaign. Not that lying the midst of a campaign is okay, it's just expected.

Cheney was lying in the aftermath of 9/11 to justify a war using falsehoods.

There is a big difference and especially now that he is accusing his opponents of lying, it's perfectly acceptable to hold him accountable for his own words.

Nobody -- no decent person at least -- should excuse Cheney for uttering lies that caused a nation to go to war on the basis of the fact that he is a politician.

He may be a politician, but he is a politician who has actually launched a nation into a war that it certainly does not need and may not in fact be able to win, insofaras it is quite possible that no nation could ever win the kind of conflict in which we've embroiled ourselves in Iraq.