How about showing Cheney's next sentence?!!?
VICE PRES. CHENEY: Tim, we can do what we have to do to prevail in this conflict. Failure’s not an option. And go back again and think about what’s involved here. This is not just about Iraq or just about the difficulties we might encounter in any one part of the country in terms of restoring security and stability. This is about a continuing operation on the war on terror. And it’s very, very important we get it right. 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. They understand what’s at stake here. That’s one of the reasons they’re putting up as much of a struggle as they have, is because they know if we succeed here, that that’s going to strike a major blow at their capabilities.
MR. RUSSERT: So the resistance in Iraq is coming from those who were responsible for 9/11?
VICE PRES. CHENEY: No, I was careful not to say that.
Plus, read the rest of the transcript.
And Howlin, the point is that there is a connection to the war on terror... and that is what Cheney was saying. But to say that he is claiming that IRAQ or SADAAM was responsible for 9/11 WAS NOT WHAT HE HAS EVER DONE.
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The are twisting and stretching as hard as they can to say that Cheney "lied" about something.
He didn't... If you want to argue that is long winded answer wasn't articulate enough, fine. But let's be just slightly intellectually honest here.
Put that up in a separate thread with DEBUNKING EDWARDS DEBATE POINT REGARDING IRAQ and 9-11, or something like that and I'll ping the hell out of that, will you?
I actually think the resistance in some part, a significant part, is the same people that attacked us on 9-11. Militant Sunni terrorists from the Mideast and North Africa. They are all going in and linking up with the people in the Sunni triangle and they are fighting for radical Sunni Islam.
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