It's a wonder Cheney's brain isn't in the same danger of exploding as his heart is. Here are two (reordered) passages from Froomkin today:

Moran: Before the war you said Americans would be greeted as liberators here, and yet your own trip here today was undertaken in such secrecy that not even the prime minister of this country knew you were coming, and your movements around are in incredible secrecy and security. Do you ever think about how and why you got it wrong?

Cheney: I don't think I got it wrong. I think the vast majority of the Iraqi people are grateful for what the U.S. did. I think they believe overwhelmingly that they're better off today than they were when Saddam Hussein ruled.

And a bit earlier:

Fewer than half of Iraqis -- 46% -- said their country was better off than it was before the war; half said it was wrong for the United States to invade in 2003. Two-thirds said they opposed the continued presence of U.S. troops, and almost half said they would like to see U.S. forces leave soon.

In Cheney's world, vast majorities (i.e., half) of Iraq are grateful for things they wish didn't happen, and the 54% of Iraqis who don't believe they are better off now than under Saddam's rule are overwhelmed by those who disagree. If this were the 1970s, I'd ask, "Is this the New Math?" Nowadays I guess I might ask, "Did Cheney go to school in Kansas, or what?"

Update (thanks to The Carpetbagger):

Moran: Are you troubled at all that more than 100 people in U.S. custody have died — 26 of them now being investigated as criminal homicides — people beaten to death, suffocated to death, died of hypothermia in U.S. custody?

Cheney: No. I won't accept your numbers, Terry.