TIA: Forgetting and passing by the rest of the thread---which probably drifts as they all do----RIGHT ON.
      You have it right. Darth---sorry---Cheney has crossed the line for a U S campaign.

       Those who think of voting for that group had best see Judgement At Nurenmburg again---the scene where the Judge (Tracy) confronts Lancester (A German judge) in his cell---Lancester has not spoken one word throughout the film---here he tells his problem of how this all came to pass and he was not complicit--he was, after all representing the state. All others were complicit

Tracy's response is what can be said now to Cheney. The Lancester character then realized it also.

   Our nation has always (well, outside the HUAC era and one or two other blemishes---WW2/Japanese citizens) allowed free exchange of ideas and those who disagree are not cowards, anarchists, or some such as Cheney would have you believe Kerry is---especially when he defended the country and dear old Dick (what an appropriate term) got many deferments.    By the way--was he with W then thinking of more ways to avoid serving???? (I kid--they, allegedly, did not know each other then---and Halliburton was a couple of years away yet).

Bill Hahn