It's difficult not to be sceptical about the visit of Dick Cheney to Australia. His musings on China, Iran and the Middle East are suspect, to say the least. Cheney is really the brains behind the Bush administration and a key architect of the disasterous war in Iraq. The unelected Rumsfeld has gone and has now received a dumping from John McCain.
Cheney, however, has been able to hide behind his bumbling and cliche ridden boss. Bush has undoubtedly taken some of the flack that should reasonably have be sheeted home to Cheney.
Naturally Australia, like the vassal state we so often seem to be, laid out the red carpet, closed the streets to traffic, and generally brown-nosed the so often mistaken VP. When will we grow up? An alliance is one thing. Sycophancy is quite another.
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