Tell us how you really feel Todd!!!!

You know yesterday Cheney was on one of the Sunday talk shows. He repeated that the intel was bad and that we would have gone to Iraq anyway. He asked the rhetorical question, "What would it be like if we didn't" (or something like that). This really worries me. I cannot believe that these guys are asking us to imagine what it would be like if we did not go to Iraq. Do they really believe that we won't come up with the following set of answers? :

1. 2500 American soldiers would not have died.
2. Thousands more would not have been injured both physically and psychologically.
3. Our resources would be available to us to deal with real threats like Iran and N. Korea.
4. My kids and their kids would not end up paying for this war.
5. The sectarian violence that is truly terrorizing the Iraqi people would not exist.

To be fair - there are a couple of other answers as well:

1. Sadaam would be enriching himself on the backs of his people.
2. We would still be searching for a miltary base in the Muslim world (if Afghanistan was not enough).

I always thought of this Administration as being competent in execution of a terribly flawed policy. Now I'm beginning to believe they have lost touch with reality.