politics: Unintentional and tragic irony

I can't believe that for the second time in a week I'm referencing the Washington Times, but ... from this article, this quote from Darth Cheney's remarks at Auschwitz:

Mr. Cheney reminded his listeners, many of them young people, that the cruelty of the death camps did not happen in a faraway corner of the world, but in the "very heart of the civilized world."
"The death camps were created by men with a high opinion of themselves — some of them well-educated and possessed of refined manners — but without conscience," he said. "And where there is no conscience, there is no tolerance toward others ... no defense against evil ... and no limit to the crimes that follow."

He really doesn't get it, does he?