Yesterday, former Vice President and recovering recluse Dick Cheney gave a speech outlining his twisted and inaccurate view of the world. He yet again asserted the Iraq/Al-Qaeda link which has been repeatedly debunked and even dismissed by Cheney’s former alleged boss G.W. Bush. He again asserted the false claim that torture is a valuable interrogation tool. And he again asserted that the horrific events of 9/11 continue to be unapologetic rationale for any action we have taken or might take in the future. Ironically he also lamented how public dissent over government strategy and tactics was enabling the terrorists, apparently failing to recognize that this was the very same pot he was standing over and stirring with vigor.

MS-NBC’s Keith Olberman did an outstanding job of dressing down the Dark Lord last night:

I would hope that someone, anyone, would notify Mr. Cheney that he really needs to be quiet. That he’s doing far more harm than good; harm to his country; harm to his party; harm to his administration’s legacy; and harm to himself. But no one, including Bush, holds sway over this loose canon. In that respect, nothing has changed since he was in office. Perhaps the strategy should be that Obama could quietly notify Cheney that either he can go silently into retirement or Obama will appoint a special investigator to prosecute Cheney for war crimes. But I expect even then, Cheney would just publicize this as a left-wing conspiracy to cover up the tortured view of the world that passes for reality in his perverted psyche.

As Olberman says at the end of his tongue lashing, “Let me again quote Oliver Cromwell to you, Mr. Cheney: You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately… Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”