Cheney's gargantuan delusion

Two weeks ago today, VP Cheney told Fox TV's Chris Wallace: “If you look at what’s transpired in Iraq, Chris, we’ve made enormous progress.” Well, here is today's "enormous progress": at least seven Iraqi children killed at school, new fighting at the holy city of Najaf (where a US helicopter has been shot down), 54 unidentified bodies discovered in and around Baghdad.

Here is Cheney's overall "enormous progress" to date:
*3,075 dead American troops
*Officially 23,114 wounded American troops, but up to 100,000 estimated
*Hundreds of thousands, possibly over 600,000, dead Iraqis
*1.6 million Iraqis displaced in their own country. (UN)
* Almost 2 million Iraqis now refugees outside of Iraq (UN)
*The Iraqi police and army infiltrated by sectarian militiamen
*40% of Iraqis without work
*Water, sewer and electric service a shambles

Senator Dick Durbin hit the nail on the head: ""To have Vice President Cheney suggest that we have had a series of enormous successes in Iraq is delusional,"

Yesterday Greg Mitchell of Editor & Publisher compared Cheney to "another... war spokesman, Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, better known as 'Baghdad Bob.'" Remember him? That guy's delusion was sad comedy. Cheney's delusion is sheer madness.