Suprisingly, It Could Have Been Worse

I don't know how serious the AP is about trying to round up people who excerpt their work so I will just link to thieir article and paraphrase.

It turns out that in 2002 Dick Cheney and the rest of his NeoCon brood tried to convince President Bush to use the military to go into Buffalo, New York and apprehend some terrorism suspects instead of the FBI. Its now apparent to me that there is no way to overestimate just how big of a coward Cheney and his wing of the Executive Office were. There are many many good reasons why its against the policy of the United States of America to use our military domestically, especially for police actions. Bush ultimately told them no, at least according to the AP article, but the simple fact that Cheney was advocating this just goes to show you how much of a chicken hawk the man really was.

And this is the guy the GOP is now trying to make into some kind of hero. Give me a damn break.