Story of the Day: Cheney's Commencement Speech at West Point

With May on pace to be the deadliest month of the year for U.S. soldiers in Iraq and fresh off the war funding victory with Congress, Vice President Dick Cheney addressed the graduating class of West Point today.

You won't see anything more than a couple of canned soundbites on the networks. If that. Our national newspapers won't do much better. Another item you aren't likely to hear any mainstream journalists mention (one of those many 800-lb. gorillas) is Cheney's five draft deferments to avoid serving in Vietnam, of which he so tactfully said, "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service."

While perfectly contextual to the story at hand - a hawkish vice president, who fixed intelligence to precipitate the invasion of Iraq, delivers commencement speech to a fresh crop of soldiers bound for his disastrous war of choice - mainstream news outlets are loathe to point to our vice president's jaw-dropping hypocrisy. 

So, instead, what we're often left with when we watch such events through the prism of our mainstream media is the feeling of a world gone mad. An utter dislocation of reality. Another enabling moment of big media journalism. 

Here is the unadulturated version of Cheney's speech. I promise you won't be disappointed. It's vintage Cheney, right down to: "We're fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first, and hit us hard."

Never mind that enemy wasn't Iraq.

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Cheney's Commencement Speech at West Point