The Difference between Iraq and Afghanistan

According to Dick Cheney, debate on the Iraq war is healthy--but it's wrong to criticize the Bush administration for basing the invasion of Iraq on one rogue agent named (I'm not being sarcastic here) "Curveball".
Even if you want to be an optimist, that makes the Bush Administration, at the very least, incompetent.

If you're ever in a philosophy class and need to remember what "circular reasoning" is, here is a good example:

Mr. Cheney reiterated the administration's stance that Iraq is "the central front in the war on terror." He scoffed at assertions by administration critics that the Iraq campaign had made America less safe by stirring up hatred against the United States and its allies.

"They overlook a fundamental fact," Mr. Cheney said. "We were not in Iraq on Sept. 11, 2001, and the terrorists hit us anyway."

I just keep turning it around and around in my head, trying to understand the logic. Have you ever heard something so goddamn crazy, and you know it's goddamn crazy but it's so crazy that you can't even begin to refute it? It only makes sense if you replace the word "Iraq" with "Afghanistan."

Cheney also claimed that having a timetable would show the terrorists that we're weak. I don't know how the hell having a goddamn clue about what you're doing makes you weak. All I know is that the Iraqis are game.