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"My estimate at the time - and it was wrong, it turned out to be incorrect - was the fact that we were in the midst of holding three elections in Iraq, elected an interim government, then ratifying a constitution, then electing a permanent government, that they had had significant success, we'd rounded up Saddam Hussein. Cheney said in an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live" "I thought there were a series of these milestones that would in fact undermine the insurgency and make it less than it was at that point. That clearly didn't happen. I think the insurgency turned out to be more robust." Shortly after Cheney's original remarks in 2005, the violence in Iraq sharply increased and he received criticism to which he responded:
What else has Dick Cheney been "wrong" about concerning the war in Iraq?
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has
weapons of mass destruction." Six days before the U.S. sent troops to Iraq, Cheney said "We believe Iraq has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons" [Meet the Press, 3/7/03]. This echoed his June, 2002 speech in which he said the same thing. He made these claims while offering no evidence, and despite the fact that "the CIA sent two memos to the White House in October voicing strong doubts about a claim President Bush made three months later in the State of the Union address that Iraq was trying to buy nuclear material in Africa" [Washington Post, 7/23/03]. As ex Cia analyst Ray McGovern has asserted, falsified documents which were meant to show that Iraq's Saddam Hussein regime had been trying to procure yellowcake uranium from Niger can be traced straight back to Cheney's office.
The outing of Valerie Plame as a CIA agent and the evidence uncovered during the ensuing trial of Scooter Libby also proved a direct link from the yellowcake documents to Cheney's office. When questioned directly about the International Atomic Energy Agency’s findings that the White House falsely claimed that Iraq had bought uranium from Africa, Cheney said that "[IAEA Director] Elbaradei is, frankly, wrong." (ah someone else is "wrong" - that magic word) He said this despite the fact that the IAEA’s findings were the same as the findings of U.S. intelligence agencies that Cheney was consulting with. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The true story behind government sponsored terror, 7/7, Gladio and 9/11, get Terror Storm! Let us help you reach a huge audience of potential customers. Help support the website and take advantage of low advertising rates. Click here for more info. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Saddam had an established relationship with Al Qaeda, providing
training to Al Qaeda members in the areas of poisons, gases, making conventional
weapons." Cheney has repeatedly asserted that the U.S. needed to go to war with Iraq because, he said, U.S. intelligence knew that Saddam was working with Al Qaeda. As he said on Meet the Press, "We know that [Saddam] has a long-standing relationship with various terrorist groups, including the al-Qaeda organization." However, in June, the U.N. formally investigated the claim and found absolutely no evidence. As reported by the NY Times, "The chairman of the monitoring group appointed by the United Nations Security Council to track Al Qaeda told reporters that his team had found no evidence linking Al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein" [6/27/03]. Similarly, even the 9/11 commission report undercuts claims before the war that Hussein had links to Al Qaeda. According to national security officials, "In the 14 weeks since the fall of Baghdad, coalition forces have not brought to light any significant evidence demonstrating the bond between Iraq and Al Qaeda…Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah, the two highest-ranking Qaeda operatives in custody, have told investigators that Mr. bin Laden shunned cooperation with Saddam Hussein" [NY Times, 7/20/03] Despite all this Cheney repeated
the assertion in 2004, stating that Saddam "had long
established ties with Al Qaeda." Fast forward to April 2007 and even the Pentagon dismissed any link between Al Qaeda and Saddam, yet Cheney reiterated the claim AGAIN, stating:
And most recently in June, Cheney again repeated the claim of a Saddam-Al Qaeda link, this time to a bunch of school children, who are incidentally the only people who will still believe anything he says. It was also recently revealed via Stephen Hayes’s upcoming biography on Dick Cheney that the current Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell appears to side with “those who believe that the administration manipulated intelligence on Iraq for political purposes before the 2003 invasion.”
His remarkable record of statements in contradiction to facts, when tied in with the evidence that pre-war intelligence was intentionally manipulated and fabricated, dovetailed with the fact that Cheney has consistently refused to allow his office to be accountable should lead Congress to ask the question Hasn't Dick Cheney been "wrong" about the war in Iraq on a few too many occasions by now?
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Dick Cheney has admitted that he was "wrong" when he said
two years ago that the Iraqi insurgency was in "its last throes".
The trouble is that Dick Cheney has been "wrong" about almost
all his statements concerning Iraq. When does he stop being considered
"wrong" and start being considered a liar?
