Dick Cheney: There was no link between Saddam and 9/11

[Ezek]

Dick Cheney says he doesn’t think Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks. More than six years after the Bush administration took us to war in Iraq — after 4,310 Americans died there, and with U.S. troops possibly staying in that country for years to come — the former vice president says the Iraqi dictator had nothing to do with the planning or execution of the terror attacks.

Shortly after 9/11, Cheney was singing a different tune… Then he said it was “pretty well” confirmed that one of the leaders of the attack, Mohammed Atta, had met with a senior Iraqi intelligence official in Prague in 2000

The former vice president is now explaining away the early uncertainty of the so-called Iraq-9/11 link by saying that intelligence gathering is “more an art form than a science.” However, he failed to mention those Iraqi weapons of mass destruction that never seemed to materialize — another supposed reason for the invasion.

Cheney says no link between Saddam and 9/11

So you mean Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks? HOLY SHIT I HAD NO IDEA.

I mean, I don't think anyone with half a brain didn't already know about this but it's still amusing to finally see it come from the lion's mouth.

[Dimmauk]

Cheney says no link between Saddam and 9/11

So you mean Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks? HOLY SHIT I HAD NO IDEA.

I mean, I don't think anyone with half a brain didn't already know about this but it's still amusing to finally see it come from the lion's mouth.

That is why those prisoners were Waterboarded after the already admitted everything. They wanted them to say Saddam was involved in 9/11.

[Zilong]

Glass...

Fuck man, shouldn't we be trying the people involved in this whole shit as war criminals...starting with I don't know...Dick Cheney?

[Elvis]

this just in, iraq has no wmds

[guartz]

lol conspiracy theory. Get a job.

[Ramor]

ib4 guar...dammit =(
people are so fast nowadays

[Obev]

Was this one of the things we didn't know we didn't know we didn't know?

'Cause I didn't know that.

[kuronosan]

lol I think Cheney is trying to singlehandedly save the Republican party.

[Dimmauk]

lol I think Cheney is trying to singlehandedly save the Republican party.

Or he doesnt care anymore. First he says gay marriage is ok, and now this. I wonder what Limbaugh thinks about this.

[The Stig]

Who was that second in command iraqi dude that wore glasses? basically he appeared on TV insisting the americans/others were losing and that the iraqis were fighting a really fierce and winning battle, despite in the background an american tank rolled past...

He was a winner. Someone link me/name him!!

[Diamicles]

I thought this was common knowledge as of about 2003.

[Vekta]

YouTube - Comical Ali, The very best of the Iraqi Information Minister Part 1

[BRP]

Can we just make a Dick Cheney thread? This is starting to look like his blog.

[Thayil]

Dick Cheney needs to hurry up and die already, but I'm not surprised by this.

WWI: Turns out Germany warned the US that it would fire on the RMS Lusitania.
WWII: Turns out Roosevelt was warned about Pearl Harbor, but ignored it.
Vietnam: Turns out the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a lie.

War = Money

[Mizango]

Dick is on a fucking role this month, I wish he had the balls to say this when he was in office. Finally shitting now that he's off the pot eh?

[The Stig]

YouTube - Comical Ali, The very best of the Iraqi Information Minister Part 1

Love you, many kisses.

(Will watch when I get home)

[Kurokikaze]

I kind of wish he didn't come out and say that. I mean anyone who can put 2 and 2 together can figure out that this was all done to go to war. It just hurts to hear it from the lion's mouth since it kills what little faith people still have on our elected officials/government.

[Seraph]

I SHOT HIM IN THE FACE ON PURPOSE! GROWL!

> : O

[Elvis]

I thought this was common knowledge as of about 2003.

2004 Presidential election opinion polls, Kerry and Bush voters respectively:

Seventy-five percent of Bush supporters said they believed that Iraq was providing “substantial” support to Al Qaeda, with 20 percent asserting that Iraq was directly involved in the 9/11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon. Sixty-three percent of Bush supporters even believed that the clear evidence of such support has actually been found, and 60 percent believe that “most experts” have reached the same conclusion.

[...]On WMD, 82 percent of Bush supporters and 84 percent of Kerry supporters believed that the administration is saying that Iraq either had WMD or major WMD programs. On ties with al Qaeda, 75 percent of Bush supporters and 74 percent of Kerry supporters believe that the administration is saying that Iraq provided substantial support to the terrorist group.

[...]In particular, majorities or Bush supporters incorrectly assumed that he supports multilateral approaches to various international issues, including the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) (69 percent), the land mine treaty (72 percent), and the Kyoto Protocol to curb greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming (51 percent).

In August, two thirds of Bush supporters also said they believed that Bush supported the International Criminal Court (ICC), although in the latest poll, that figure dropped to a 53 percent majority, even though Bush explicitly denounced the ICC in the most widely watched nationally televised debate of the campaign in late September.

In all of these cases, majorities of Bush supporters said they favored the positions that they imputed, incorrectly, to Bush.

Bush voters in particular simply did not know what the fudge was going on.