Reply #3: he does not live in that fantasy world [View All]

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he can't possibly believe the lies he's spinning. he's too involved in their creation not to know they're lies.

the fantasy world is a web of lies of his design, but it's not for him to live in -- it's the fantasy world that he hopes the american public will live in. and he's been successful enough at keeping enough of the public there for long enough to keep him in power for 8 long, painful years.

as long as the american public has accepted that fantasy world, cheney's been free to do what he really wanted to do in iraq:

1 - get revenge on saddam (actually shrub's goal more than cheney's)
2 - disrupt a major, competing oil supplier, thereby jacking up prices and profits for domestic and other competing oil suppliers
3 - provide a convenient excuse to steer many billions to political donors such as halliburton.
4 - get rocks off on vicarious rape and pillage.