Meanwhile, during Uncle Dick’s Excellent Adventure Down Under (otherwise known as the get-the-hell-out-of-town-before-Scooter’s-verdict-comes-back):

China’s recent anti-satellite weapons test and its continued military buildup are ‘’not consistent'’ with its stated aim of a peaceful rise as a global power, Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday.

‘Cause, you know, The One True Path to World Peace is the one that provides that the U.S. be the only anti-satellite-weapons-testing, nuclear-arms-possessing, illegal-war-launching country on the planet.