When Cheney starts his rhetoric, what does anyone think happens to the region? Peace? Peace negotiations? No. Every Shi'ite including those in Iraq listen and realize the USA government is under the control of idiots that want to kill them. Cheney and Bush in their outspoken and chronic rhetoric are killing USA soldiers in Iraq.
What is the purpose to the Cheney rhetoric? What? Is it productive? No. It's no different than the rhetoric Bush delivered stating, "...Axis of Evil..." There is no purpose and now that a reasonable man from South Korea heads the United Nations there is productive movement toward understanding between North and South Korea.
What is coming out of the mouth of the Veep is nothing but political fodder. It's not USA policy, but, only to inspire the Extreme Right in this country 'to believe' that all others before them as president and veep never did a darn thing to protect this nation. Did you know that? Everyone that came before Bush and Cheney never did a darn thing to protect the USA.
The USA President that fought and succeeded in ending WWII, with the help of Europe and Russia, was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A DEMOCRAT !!!