Memo to Cheney: Al Qaeda is not Iraq

Vice President Vader gave an exclusive interview with ABC News yesterday. Here's one choice tidbit, relating to Speaker Pelosi and Rep. John Murtha's disapproval of the "surge" strategy:

I think, in fact, if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we'll do is validate the al Qaeda strategy. The al Qaeda strategy is to break the will of the American people. In fact, knowing they can't win in a stand-up fight, try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they win because we quit.

I think that's exactly the wrong course to go on. I think that's the course of action that Speaker Pelosi and Jack Murtha support. I think it would be a huge mistake for the country.

Cheney knows we are fighting a Sunni insurgency and Shiite militias, right? And that al Qaeda will attack us no matter what happens in Iraq? He gets that, right? He can't be both pure evil and this stupid, can he?

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what you get with an 18% approval rating. The inmates are running the asylum.