He may not be Dick-head but he’s certainly Dick-head-in-waiting. And here are his Sunday emissions, according to WaPo:

Vice President Cheney said today that the ongoing national debate over the war in Iraq is emboldening adversaries to believe they can undermine the resolve of the American people to complete the U.S. mission in Iraq and Afghanistan.

National debate is a fascist propaganda tool. In democracies, we click our heels when told, and say “Yes, boss!” on cue. Because, after all, we elected these leaders ourselves. (With only a little help from Katharine Harris in Florida and the Supreme Court, from voting machines and Ken Blackwell in Ohio.) We gave them the right to tell us what to do. As everyone knows, democracy works best when the voters accept their assigned role as sheeple.

“They can’t beat us in a stand-up fight, they never have, but they’re absolutely convinced they can break our will [and that] the American people don’t have the stomach for the fight, ” Cheney said on NBC’s Meet the Press.

I believe Cheney may just have – unwittingly, of course – formulated the winning strategy in Iraq. Clearly, we can’t beat them in a stand-up fight. We gave that our best shot for three and a half years. And even Cheney will accept in a couple of years or so that we have failed to beat them. So we have to turn this into a war of words. We have to break their will.

The Bush-men have almost got it right, recently. It is now very much a war of words too. Except they’re fighting the war of words on the domestic front. We have to fight the war of words over there, guys. We have to break their will. A relatively minor adjustment, if you ask me, just a 180 degree turnaround. And the long-celebrated victory will finally come to pass.

Cheney offered an unapologetic defense of the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, saying he would have done “exactly the same thing” even if he knew before the war what he acknowledged knowing now — that Iraq did not have stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.

Well, well, well! A categorical admission of such magnitude! We may (or may not!) be suffering global warming here on earth, but down there in the other place I think they’re having an unusually cold spell. Some of those molten lakes may well have frozen over. Someone really put the thumbscrews on him before they sent him there. Now I wonder if we could get him to clarify when he came by this epiphany…

He acknowledged he had been overly optimistic in predicting a quick demise to the Iraqi insurgency that continues to bedevil U.S. forces. More than a year ago, in May 2005, Cheney proclaimed the insurgency was in its “last throes,” but, since then, more than 1,000 additional U.S. troops have died and sectarian violence has intensified.

Don’t that beat all! They must have gone well beyond thumbscrews. Thumbscrews, come to think of it, must be hopelessly out of fashion. Water-boarding, you think? Or was it just threatening him with Gitmo food, and no extra salt?

He said the fact that al-Qaeda has launched no successful attack on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001, shows that the administration’s policies are working, especially, as he described it, in going on the offensive in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Yes, by diverting all our resources and all our energy to the war on Iraq, we have paralyzed al-Qaeda. They are afraid to strike in the U.S. now in case we raise taxes and commit even more resources to Iraq, thereby destroying Osama’s wet dream of a grand caliphate in Iraq.