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Oh. My. God.

PAUL BEGALA, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Really, it's stunning. It's a great interview, and — because we saw the real Dick Cheney, you know, a really remarkable, probably historic, combination of arrogance, incompetence and dishonesty.

This is a man who, when he took office, Richard Clarke, the chief counterterrorism czar, told him that bin Laden was going to try to attack America. He ignored it. The president told him to chair a task force on terrorism. He refused to even convene it until after 9/11. He was too busy helping his friends at Enron and Exxon with his energy task force.

He told the country that Iraq was an imminent threat. He was wrong. He told us that they had a nuclear program — he was wrong — biological stockpiles, chemical stockpiles, that there were links to al Qaeda, that there were secret meetings between Mohamed Atta, the leader of the hijacking ring that attacked us on 9/11, and Saddam Hussein's government; they had a secret meeting in Prague. That was a fabrication as well — on and on.

It really is staggering, the — the level of this man's mendacity and arrogance, in the face — if he had any decency, he would simply resign, Wolf. He would give you an interview. He would say: You know, I give up. I have ruined — I have ruined the country in my first term. I'm ruining the world in my second term.

The worst part of it is that Begala understates the case. This isn't the first time in our history Cheney has been this spectacularly wrong. Go back to the First Gulf War and see what General Norman Schwarzkopf had to say about Cheney's ideas for military intervention. Go back and see what George H W Bush and Brent Scowcroft had to say about Cheney's views on the end of the Cold War. He wasn't just wrong, we was really, really wrong. And not about trivial matters, but about some of the most important events in the last 25 years. And yet he has never been called to account.

So yes, Begala is right. But really.... shouldn't he have seen this coming? Isn't it his job to see this coming and let us know? I'm just asking...