Sunday September 10, 2006 4:46 PM

I think I dislike this guy even more than I dislike Bush and Rumsfeld. In the dictionary next to the word evil……there he is.

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By TOM RAUM

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday defended his role as a leading advocate for invading Iraq, for a warrantless surveillance program and for harsh treatment of suspected terrorists.

“Part of my job is to think about the unthinkable, to focus what in fact the terrorists may have in store for us,” Cheney told NBC’s “Meet the Press” when asked about his “dark side.”

Cheney said he now recognizes that the insurgency in Iraq was not “in its last throes,” as he said in May 2005. “I think there is no question but that we did not anticipate an insurgency that would last this long,” the vice president said.

“It’s still difficult. Obviously, major, major work to do is ahead of us. But the fact is, the world is better off today with Saddam Hussein out of power. Think where we’d be if he was still there,” Cheney said.

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