Reply #175: I'm "reviewing" reality.

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Take your "B movie" sophistry to the local art rag.

The reality is they were bad people who did seriously bad things. EXTREMELY seriously bad things. Crimes against humanity-type bad things. Did they ever commit good acts? Were they kind to their grandchildren? Did they help their neighbor fix his lawnmower? Maybe. I would imagine so. Regardless, it would not obviate their roles in the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, the elimination of Constitutionally-guaranteed rights, the implementation of torture as SOP and thousands of other crimes committed under the neocon regime of which they were an important part.

I judge no one as harshly as Cheney. (First you resort to "Hitler" and now "Cheney" like they were some sort of trump card. What's up with that?) But Cheney is so transparently amoral and incapable of masking his venal intentions that he would be an impotent old gasbag if he didn't have professional mouthpieces like Russert and Snow lying to the public for him and his "cause." Are the propagandist disinformation functionaries "as bad" as Cheney? In some ways yes and in some ways no. (The world is not as black and white as your own caricature.) But it doesn't matter. They are plenty bad enough on their own.

I do not espouse a simplistic or caricature view of people. I never said the world or people are black or white, so stop putting words in my mouth.