[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Cheney's biggest lie...

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

If you are wondering why Cheney is changing his story now, look at today's 
headlines on Iraq and WMDs:

http://news.google.com/news?q=saddam+weapons

Cheney is truly, demonstrably, a big, fat liar!  Look at this stuff....


A friend sent all the stuff below to me this morning:

Probably the most significant lie from Dick Cheney during the VP debate 
was his opening salvo where he specifically avowed ever linking Iraq to 
9/11.  In fact, he has made a living the last two years trying to sell us 
that nonsense:


CHENEY STATEMENT AT OCTOBER 5, 2004 VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: "I have not 
suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11."


DETAILED RECORD OF CHENEY STATEMENTS ON IRAQ/AL QAEDA LINK:

Cheney: "His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a 
decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists." (Cheney Remarks, 
12/2/02)

Cheney: "His regime aids and protects terrorists, including members of al 
Qaeda. He could decide secretly to provide weapons of mass destruction to 
terrorists for use against us." (Cheney Remarks, 1/30/03)

Cheney: "If we're successful in Iraq, if we can stand up a good 
representative government in Iraq, that secures the region so that it 
never again becomes a threat to its neighbors or to the United States, so 
it's not pursuing weapons of mass destruction, so that it's not a safe 
haven for terrorists, now we will have struck a major blow right at the 
heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who 
have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 
9/11." (NBC, Meet The Press, 9/14/03, emphasis added)

Russert: "The Washington Post asked the American people about Saddam 
Hussein, and this is what they said: 69 percent said he was involved in 
the September 11 attacks. Are you surprised by that?

Cheney: "No. I think it's not surprising that people make that 
connection." (NBC, Meet the Press, 11/14/03)

Cheney: "If we're successful in Iraq, if we can stand up a good 
representative government in Iraq, that secures the region so that it 
never again becomes a threat to its neighbors or to the United States, so 
it's not pursuing weapons of mass destruction, so that it's not a safe 
haven for terrorists, now we will have struck a major blow right at the 
heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who 
have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 
9/11." (NBC, Meet the Press, 11/14/03)

Cheney: "We now know based on documents that we've captured since we took 
Baghdad that they put (Yasin) on the payroll, gave him a monthly stipend 
and provided him with a house, sanctuary in effect, in Iraq in the 
aftermath of . . . the '93 attack on the World Trade Center." (Rocky 
Mountain News, Interview, 1/10/04)

Cheney: "I think there's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection 
between al-Qaeda and the Iraqi government." (National Public Radio, 
"Morning Edition," 1/22/04)

Cheney: "Freedom still has enemies in Iraq, terrorists who are targeting 
the very success and freedom we're providing to that country. Recently, we 
intercepted a letter sent by a senior al Qaeda associate named Zarqawi to 
one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants...America will finish what we've 
begun in Iraq, and we will win an essential victory in this war on 
terror." (Cheney Remarks, 2/27/04)

Cheney: "It's clearly established in terms of training, provision of 
bomb-making experts, training of people with respect to chemical and 
biological warfare capabilities, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Iraq for 
training and so forth*" (Cheney, CNBC's "Kudlow & Kramer," 6/4/04)

Cheney: "In Iraq, Saddam Hussein was in power, overseeing one of the 
bloodiest regimes of the 20th century* He had long established ties with 
al Qaeda." (Cheney, Orlando, FL, 6/14/04)

Cheney: "There's been enormous confusion over the Iraq and al-Qaeda 
connection, Gloria. First of all, on the question of--of whether or not 
there was any kind of a relationship, there was a relationship. It's been 
testified to. The evidence is overwhelming. It goes back to the early 
'90s...There's clearly been a relationship." (CNBC "Capital Report," 
6/17/04)

Borger: "Well, let's get to Mohamed Atta for a minute because you 
mentioned him as well. You have said in the past that it was, quote, 
'pretty well confirmed.'"

Cheney: "No, I never said that."

Borger: "OK."

Cheney: "I never said that." (CNBC "Capital Report," 6/17/04)

In response to Cheney's comment above that he "never said" that the 
connetion between Atta and Iraq was "pretty well confirmed," check this 
out from tonight's Washington Post:

On Dec. 9, 2001, Cheney said on NBC's "Meet The Press" that "it's been 
pretty well confirmed that [Atta] did go to Prague and he did meet with a 
senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last 
April, several months before the attack." On March 24, 2002, Cheney again 
told NBC, "We discovered . . . the allegation that one of the lead 
hijackers, Mohamed Atta, had, in fact, met with Iraqi intelligence in 
Prague." On Sept. 8, 2002, Cheney, again on "Meet the Press," said that 
Atta "did apparently travel to Prague. . . . We have reporting that places 
him in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence officer a few months before 
the attacks on the World Trade Center."
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