Defending Vice President Cheney

Apparently the North Koreans are angry at Vice President Cheney? Did anyone see this?

Tensions between the United States and North Korea turned up a notch Thursday as the White House defended Vice President Dick Cheney's personal attack on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

Cheney had called Kim an "irresponsible" leader who did not care for his people and ran a police state, drawing a strong rebuke Thursday from Pyongyang, which called the US leader a "blood-thirsty beast."

"We are going to call it the way it is," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters as he backed Cheney's verbal assault made in an interview with CNN's "Larry King Live" program on Monday.

Isn't that all true? I can't see anything that Vice President Cheney said that wasn't completely demonstrable with facts and references. Then again, that's just me...