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maybe this would be a good time for mr Cheney to step down as vp
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It would be a good time for him to be impeached and then put on trial for war crimes, frankly. But that's been true for a while.
He won't resign - he's too powerful. Normally VPs are just a flag waver who's put there to get some votes the top man doesn't appeal to (hence the common south/north split ticket, like Clinton/Gore). In this case that doesn't apply - he's far more effective an operator than the President and what he does (mainly) is help his buddies get richer at the expense of the US taxpayer*. No sign of that letting up, so why resign? Come 2008 he'll be out of there with a big bag marked SWAG and that's the whole point of the exercise. The next sucker has the job of clearing up the mess. This is not politics as usual, it's a superpower being hijacked.
* And the people of Iraq, of course. Oh, and the reputation of his country. And human rights. And international law.