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

[Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Yep, can't defend this one. I think the administration is in spin mode
now. Unfortunately these guys are not as good of liars as the
Democrats are.


On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:22:49 -0500 (CDT), Mike Miller
<EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 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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