The last time Dick Cheney went on Larry King Live he proclaimed the insurgency in Iraq was in “last throes,” so when I heard the veep would be back for another interview tonight, I got my popcorn out and prepared for some entertaining lies and high-quality misleading of the public.

Bobby Allyn, a new blogger here at Campus Progress, beat me to a post on this today. But different things jump out to different people, so here are my three cents.

Cheney continued to insist we keep open the prison at Guantanamo Bay: “If you closed Guantanamo, you'd have to find someplace else to put these folks.” Right, like the U.S. legal system where they’d have access to lawyers and the writ of habeas corpus. This isn’t a radical proposal. Colin Powell suggested it last month on Meet the Press. (Powell also said he’d close Gitmo “not tomorrow, this afternoon.”)

Cheney said he recently had dinner with Scooter Libby, whose 30-month sentence for perjury and obstruction of justice was commuted by Bush last month. “He obviously went through a very, very difficult time, very hard for him and for his family.” First, Scooter’s difficult time pales in comparison to the difficult time he gave to C.I.A. agent Valerie Plame by effectively ending her career in retaliation for her husband speaking out against the Bush administration’s twisting of facts in order to justify a war that should have never been waged. Second, “very difficult times” are what you go through when you break the law. Third, how “hard” can it be for “him and for his family?” The man just got let off the hook by his old college buddy in the White House. Cheney did acknowledge that “he's in good spirits and getting on with his life.” Glad to hear it.

Cheney described the ongoing investigation into the firing of nine U.S. attorneys as “a bit of a witch hunt on Capitol Hill as they keep turning over rocks hoping they find something.” AG Alberto Gonzales was in charge of an orchestrated effort to fire U.S. attorneys who were out of step with the Bush administration. Isn’t it clear what the real witch hunt was? Cheney also said, "Al's a good man, good friend, and in a difficult assignment." I’ll let Dana Milbank take that one.

Enough rambling. I’m waiting for some video blogger to put together a greatest hits of the interview the way ThinkProgress did with the “last throes” comment. Until then, here’s some uncut video to get you through the work day: