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I have mixed emotions about hearing that Cheney almost pulled a Spike Dubbs in Kabul.  Most people probably wish he got it, and that’s understandable.  I was feeling this way when I heard the news, but then I thought about what would happen if the news report this morning was “Dick Cheney has been killed.”
 
First there would be the overall freakout, and just like when those Blackwater guys got massacred in Fallujah, there would undoubtedly be an overwhelming (read disproportionate) response by the US, hundreds of innocent people barbequed with white phosphorous, corralled and shot to pieces by AC-130’s, etc, etc. 
 
I can just see Cheney right now demanding such actions.  Probably, as with horses and hand grenades, close enough is good enough.  Okay, so that wouldn’t be the worst thing if they got him, because that’s probably going to happen now anyway.

No the worst thing would be the eulogies that we would have to hear ad infinitum.  A politician dies and all of the sudden they’re great with a capital G.  In terms of history though, nothing has the transformative power that assassination does.  Look at what it did for Lincoln and Kennedy.  I fear what it would do for Cheney, or rather, what it would do to us for Cheney.

Better for him to die via some type of humorous pratfall, like falling into a manhole or something.  That would insure the necromancers’ inability to conjure any type of bullshit about a supposed legacy.

Sorry to get all political on your ass.  We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.