Does Cheney think he's Patton?

[Cassandra]

I switched over the the remake of Inherit the Wind to avoid Bay Buchanan on C-Span and there was George C. Scott as Brady, sounding and snarling just like Dick. Does Cheney think, somewhere in his paranoid little mind, think he's Patton?
Kind of a bloodless remake, BTW.

[H2O Man]

1. Churchill.

Seriously.

[H2O Man]

4. A quote

from Isikoff & Corn's "Hubris":

"Libby's life revolved around Cheney. He took his vacations in Wyoming so he could be near the vice president. He even took up hunting. After September 11, he came to view Cheney as a historical figure who saw the dangers facing his country with greater clarity than anyone. In December 2001, during an interview with James Mann, Libby read aloud a passage from Winston Churchill's memoir of the years leading up to World War II: 'I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.' Libby told Mann these words could be applied to Cheney in the post-9/11 period." (page 238)

[H2O Man]

7. In his book

"Rise of the Vulcans," James Mann notes that neoconservative theorist Leo "Strauss and his followers revered Winston Churchill..." (page 26-27). He notes that in the current administration, two neoconservatives in particular were fond of quoting Churchill: Wolfowitz (page 300) and Libby (page 294). He also states that their comparing Cheney to Churchill "was grandiose." (page 294)

Perhaps the funniest part of his book is found on page 321: "Christopher Patten, the British Conservative party leader working for the European Union, reminded Washington of the words of Winston Churchill: 'In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own.' That was, as Patten undoubtedly realized, a gibe at the Churchill admirers in the Bush Administration."

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Patton never ask for 5 deferments and chickened out...He'd slap

Dick Cheney's jaws for being a coward and a draft dodger!

Put-on maybe, but not Patton...

[momster]

3. General Ursus

with the purple pants!

[DainBramaged]

5. Darth Vader with a Mongol horde complex

[madrchsod]

6. what a difference a few years make-dick after the first war

"I would guess if we had gone in there, I would still have forces in Baghdad today. We'd be running the country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home.

And the final point that I think needs to be made is this question of casualties. I don't think you could have done all of that without significant additional U.S. casualties, and while everybody was tremendously impressed with the low cost of the (1991) conflict, for the 146 Americans who were killed in action and for their families, it wasn't a cheap war.

And the question in my mind is, how many additional American casualties is Saddam (Hussein) worth? And the answer is, not that damned many. So, I think we got it right, both when we decided to expel him from Kuwait, but also when the President made the decision that we'd achieved our objectives and we were not going to go get bogged down in the problems of trying to take over and govern Iraq."

it was reported that powell and schwarzkopf would`t take cheney calls in the field because he`d send instructions on how to run ground operations...

[Cassandra]

11. "he`d send instructions on how to run ground operations"

He was apparently watching "The Civil War" on PBS and thought one or the other of them must be McClellen.

[madokie]

8. why, he ain't GOD

who woulda' thunk't
shit fire and save the matches, now I'm confused

[Captain Hilts]

9. Patton was crazy, but not stupid. And he would, eventually, take orders.

And I wouldn't have been a good sport about dealing with Monty.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. How about

Oil Capone?

Edit...Scowlface Oil Capone?