MONTOURSVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday the invasion of Iraq will go down in history, along with the war in Afghanistan, for its ``brilliance.''

The vice president's comment came as he portrayed the controversy over hundreds of tons of missing explosives in Iraq as a battle pitting Sen. John Kerry against U.S. troops, with Cheney siding with the military.

At an airport rally at a hangar in Montoursville, Pa., Cheney said the U.S. invasions of ``Afghanistan and Iraq will be studied for years for their brilliance."

Here.

Yeah. Brilliant.

Vietnam and the Bay of Pigs, too. Frickin' sharp. Smart.

How disconnected from reality is this administration?

...oh, and it gets better. Get this:

``Our troops were doing their job,'' Cheney said as he called Kerry an ``armchair general,'' a characterization the vice president has been using for several days.

Fightin' Dick Cheney, that damned draft-dodging chickenhawk, calls war-hero Kerry an "armchair general." Can you believe the audacity of this incompetent bungler?

He should have been impeached. Long ago. For the Energy Commission stuff if nothing else. Or the Plame smear. Or...