March 25, 2008 at 10:09:21

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ABC reporter Martha Raddatz said to Dick Cheney: "Two-thirds of Americans say it's [Iraq war] not worth fighting, and they're looking at the value gain versus the cost in American lives, certainly, and Iraqi lives. "

Dick Cheney responded: "So?"

Got to keep the course, no matter what people think. Got a mission to accomplish, no matter what anybody says. Got to bring democracy where the leaders don't care what the people think. So who cares what Americans think about exporting democracy?

Didn't get the popular vote? So? Who cares what the voters think? Election results are nothing more than another form of opinion poll. Who has to listen to opinion polls when you're the leader of the free world?

Saddam didn't have weapons of mass destruction? So?

Saddam didn't have ties to al-Qaeda? So?

Americans weren't greeted as liberators and boulevards weren't named after Bush and Cheney? So?

Bin Laden not captured? So?

Mission not accomplished? So?

Ask and you shall receive. "Bring it on." They did. And how. So?

The 4,000th American soldier dies on Easter Sunday? So?

Did Ronald Reagan care what Americans thought when he waged an illegal war in Nicaragua?

Did Ronald Reagan care what Americans thought when he sold arms to militant Iranian fundamentalists?

Did Ronald Reagan give a damn about what Americans thought when he armed and trained the likes of Osama bin Laden to fight against the evil Soviet empire?

Did Ronald Reagan care what anybody thought about torture and death squads in backing brutal right-wing regimes?

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