I think the vice president felt he kind of looked death in the eye on 9/11. Three thousand Americans died. A building that the vice president used to work in blew up, and people died there. A plane that crashed in Pennsylvania could have hit the White House, could have killed him and me and everybody else who was in the White House. This was a cold slap in the face: This is a different world you're living in, and the enemy's still out there, and the enemy could come after you. That does cause you to think [about] things differently. ...
That certainly does give me some perspective on what Cheney's thought processes might be like.
I'm not saying that what he's doing is right, just that I'm one step closer to understanding why.
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Cheney's motivation
Date: 2006-07-13 05:22 pm (UTC)That certainly does give me some perspective on what Cheney's thought processes might be like.
I'm not saying that what he's doing is right, just that I'm one step closer to understanding why.