Yes, apart from Bush, Cheney has his own legacy that I think we should start defining.

So far, here's what I've come up with:

1. The Shadow Government

2. No Accountability (not even accountable to the president)

3. The Engineered Crisis For Financial Gain

4. Treason (leaking a CIA agent's name)

5. Most _________ Vice-President In History
-- Unpopular
-- Powerful/Influential
-- Secretive
-- Corrupt

You forgot "6. Emptied the Treasury into the Halliburton/Bechtel/Shaw Pittman/Blackwater/Boeing/General Dynamics/Raytheon corporate account."

And the ever classic,

7. shot his friend in the face.

7a. got his friend to publicly appologize for being shot in the face.

8. On the floor of the United States Senate.....telling Senator Patrick Leahy to go fuck himself.

welcome cartman...
If the screen-name is a reference to your worldview, I'd like to inform you that there are a bunch of hippies on the board, and blatant anti-semitism won't be tollerated.

If your a simple fan of south park, or that's your real last name, ignore this.

Otherwise, I look forward to hearing from you.

9.) First vice president to serve two terms post-mortem.

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Hi Cartman. Welcome!

Hi to all, not to worry....I'm a South Park fan.

Welcome Cartman!

So, what's all this talk about your mother?

While discussing Cheney's 'legacy', these shouldn't be missed.

Cheney's Law
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/view/

The Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/dickcheney/ascent.html (Link to watch is at top of page)

One thing he will go down in history for: The most powerful VP that America has ever had.

Dick Cheney Really Is That Bad

The vice president is the single greatest threat to American and international security in the world today. Not Osama Bin Laden. Not the ghost of Saddam Hussein. Not Ahmadinejad or Kim Jung Il. Not al-Qaida, the Taliban, or Jose Padilla himself. Not even George W. Bush can lay claim to this title. It is Dick Cheney's alone. Operating in a never-never land of constitutional ambiguity which exists between the office of the president and the Congress of the United States, Cheney's office has made its impact felt on the policies of the United States of America as had no vice president's office before him. Granted unprecedented oversight over national security and foreign policy by executive order in early 2001, many months prior to the terror attacks of 9/11, Cheney has single-handedly steered America away from being a nation among nations (albeit superior), operating (roughly) in accordance with the rule of law, and toward its present manifestation as the new Rome, a decadent imperial power bent on global domination whatever the cost.

The absolute worst of the rot that has infected America because of the policies and actions of the Bush administration has originated from the office of the vice president. The nonsensical response to the terror attacks of 9/11, seeking a "global war" versus defending the rule of law at home and abroad, taking the lead in spreading the lies that got us involved in Iraq, legitimizing torture as a tool of American jurisprudence, advocating for warrantless wiretappings of U.S.-based communications (regardless of what the Fourth Amendment says against illegal search and seizure), and pushing for an expansion of America's global conflict into Iran--all can be traced back to the person of Cheney as the point of origin.

America today is very much engaged in a life-or-death struggle against the forces of evil. The enemy resides not abroad, however, but at home, vested in the highest offices of the land. Neither Osama Bin Laden nor Saddam Hussein threatened the life blood of the United States--the Constitution--to the extent that Cheney has. Not Hitler, Stalin, Mao or Ho Chi Minh. Not since the American Civil War has there been a constitutional crisis of the magnitude that exists today, threatening to rip the very fabric of American society apart at the seams, courtesy of Dick Cheney.

http://www.alternet.org/story/60474/?page=2