This video leaves me grasping at straws. I still feel that Wolfowitz and the main agitating neocons were true believers, and really expected to be greeted with flowers. That kind of thinking reflects an ignorant and naive world view of black and white where “good” will triumph over “evil” (nevermind Abu Ghraib). But at least its not evil. If Cheney was able, in 1994, to eloquently and matter-of-factly outline the disastrous scenario that is unfolding as we speak, then what could have possessed him to go along with it?

Could it have been the no-bid contract kickbacks he knew he would be able to give his best friends at Halliburton? Did he want to distract the world from warrantless wire-tapping and gitmo? Maybe, as many Muslims around the world have long speculated, he was just looking for a good way to divide and neuter Arab states. This may be founded in idealogy or xenophobia, but don’t forget that Cheney is deeply immersed in the military-industrial complex and that he and his friends stand to gain enormously from 20 billion dollar arms sales to Saudi Arabia to fuel an increasingly regional Sunni-Shiite war. This all sounds very conspiracy-theoryish to me, but like I said, I’m grasping at straws. I would love to give him the benefit of the doubt and say he got caught up in the moment, but to a large degree he controlled the moment. I have to conclude that Dick Cheney is the Heart of Darkness.