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- No turning back would be a good slogan for Dick Cheney. His memoirs are remarkable -- and he shares this with Rumsfeld -- for an almost perfect lack of second-guessing, regret, or even the mildest reconsideration. "I thought the best way to get on with my life and my career was to do what I thought was right," he tells Cutler. "I did what I did, it's all on the public record, and I feel very good about it." Decisions are now as they were then. If that Mission Accomplished moment in 2003 seemed at the time to be the height of American power and authority, then so it will remain -- unquestioned, unaltered, uninflected by subsequent public events that show it quite clearly to have been nothing of the kind. "If I had to do it over again," says Cheney, "I'd do it in a minute."
thenewgreen · 3230 days ago · link ·
You should check out Meriadoc's post about meeting the "man."
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What a time to be alive. I really still can't believe that happened and went down as it did. It's become a campus legend, by the way. People who weren't there know about it at this point. This was that unabashedly evil. flagamuffin, seriously, the event and that guy going ballistic in there and then deleting his account for us telling him we're going to be civil is one of my favorite things to happen on hubski.