I wish Edwards brought up some of the issues in the debate mentioned in this article (click me) , especially those copied below. They are in the form of questions to the VP. Maybe some of our neo-cons here would like to answer for their beloved Dr. Evil.

"2. Why were maps of Iraqi oil fields and pipelines included in the documents reviewed by the administration's energy task force, the National Energy Policy Development Group, which you headed during the first months of 2001? Did discussions about regime change in Iraq figure in the deliberations of the energy task force?

4. Considering the fact that your predictions about the ease of the Iraq invasion and occupation turned out to be so dramatically off the mark, and the fact that you were in charge of the White House task force on terrorism that failed, despite repeated and explicit warnings, to anticipate the terrorist threats to the World Trade Center, what is it about your analytical skills that should lead Americans to believe your claims that America will be more vulnerable to attack if John Kerry and John Edwards are elected?

5. Speaking of intelligence, were you or any members of your staff involved in any way in revealing the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative who was working on weapons of mass destruction issues, after her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, angered the administration by revealing that the president made claims about Iraqi WMD programs that he and his aides had been told were unreliable?

6. During your tenure as secretary of defense, you and your staff asked a subsidiary of Halliburton, Brown & Root Services, to study whether private firms could take over logistical support programs for U.S. military operations around the world. They came to the conclusion that this was a good idea, and you began what would turn into a massive privatization initiative that would eventually direct billions of U.S. tax dollars to Halliburton and its subsidiary. Barely two years after you finished your service as secretary of defense, you became the CEO of Halliburton. Yet, when you were asked about the money you received from Halliburton - $44 million for five years' work - you said, "I tell you that the government had absolutely nothing to do with it." How do you define the words "absolutely nothing"?

7. No corporation has been more closely associated with the invasion of Iraq than Halliburton. The company, which you served as CEO before joining the administration, moved from No. 19 on the U.S. Army's list of top contractors before the Iraq war began to No. 1 in 2003. Last year alone, the company pocketed $4.2 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars.

8. You have been particularly aggressive in attacking the qualifications of John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, to serve as commander in chief. You received five draft deferments during the 1960s, which allowed you to avoid serving in Vietnam. In 1989, when you were nominated to serve as secretary of defense, you were asked why you did not serve in Vietnam and you told the Senate that you "would have obviously been happy to serve had I been called." Yet, in an interview that same year, you told the Washington Post, "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service." Which was it - "proud to serve" or "other priorities"?

10. Mandela has said that, to his view, you are "the real president of the United States." Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said of the first years of the Bush presidency, "Cheney and a handful of others had become 'a Praetorian guard' that encircled the president." O'Neill has also argued that the White House operates the way it does "because this is the way that Dick likes it." Why do you think that so many people, including veterans of this administration, seem to think it is you, rather than George W. Bush, who is running the country?"