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First lady Laura Bush would defeat U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton if the two were to face each other in the 2008 presidential contest.

The above statement came to us via a Reuters article on Monday. Was it some new polling? The analysis of a prominent nonpartisan political scientist?

Nope, just Dick Cheney. Good to see him imitating a lackey right-wing blogger instead of ruining what’s left of this country for at least a few minutes.

But it is Dick Cheney we’re talking about, and he wouldn’t be himself if he passed on an opportunity to run down our standing in the world and antagonize our friends and enemies:

“For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don’t take them seriously,” he said in an interview…
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“Guantanamo’s been operated, I think, in a very sane and sound fashion by the U.S. military. … I think these people have been well-treated, treated humanely and decently,” Cheney said.

Yes, of course. What could ever give anyone the idea that we don’t treat detainees humanely?

It’s good to see that someone at Amnesty has been eating their Wheaties:

William Schulz,executive director of Amnesty International USA, responded to Cheney’s comments: “It doesn’t matter whether he takes Amnesty International seriously.

“He doesn’t take torture seriously; he doesn’t take the Geneva Convention seriously; he doesn’t take due process rights seriously; and he doesn’t take international law seriously.

“And that is more important than whether he takes Amnesty International seriously.”

Dick Cheney is worse than a cartoon villain? He’s a national embarrassment, and if there is any justice, he’ll see the inside of a courtroom in the Hague around the time Hillary Clinton is settling into the Oval Office.