Cloud Cuckoo Land

In my recent travels and experiences with my father's dementia, I thought I'd seen the limits of reality breakage. But watching Vice President Cheney's interview with Wolf Blitzer where he remarked that Iraq was a 'success' I think we've wandered into a new record for the heights of the fantastical.

It isn't just that he opines that things aren't as bad as they seem, "are you going to believe me or your lying eyes", or even that he thinks the media distorts that areas of Iraq are okay...it's his insistance on a world as he sees it, not as it is.

It appears now, through all the books and reports about the run-up to the invasion, that it was Cheney who pushed the hardest for Iraq. It is so frightening (and compelling) to see someone so divorced from reality, so intent of protecting his version of events, that he can look as though he means it when he says Iraq is a 'success'.

Well...you decide...