Cheney Lectures Russert on Iraq-9/11 Link

NewsMax.com ^ | 9/15/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kylaka]

Tom Brokaw did an almost identical report on the nightly news about a weel ago. I think Russert and Brokaw coordinated the stories. At any rate Brokaw started by saying despite the public impression aside (70% believe there is a link) no evidence exists to support it. This certainly was no news story. It was a false report designed to shape public opinion against Bush. The liberals will do anything to regain power, even if they have to put someone like Al Sharpton in office.

[Gritty]

The big problem is, Liberals want to deny links between 9/11 and anybody.

Unfortunately for them, bin Laden has already claimed the credit. So, now they have to deny the links between bin Laden and anybody else!

[Republic]

Tim Russert needs to care more about the truth and a great deal less about his own personal bias. I have lost faith in him, and if I have, I'd be willing to bet others have, too.

When the facts get in his way, Tim slides over them with clintonian style, caring less about truthfully informing our fellow citizens. Tim would rather use innuendo to damage actual known facts than in to ever allow anything positive about this administration to creep thru his dialogue.

It has to hurt to be Tim Russert.

The clintons have done this to the liberals.

Their anger stems from their guilt...at least in those who still have a conscience.

[i are a cowboy]

Russert looked like a scoled child after the Vice President was finished with him. Did anyone else notice that Russert could not talk over the top of Mr. Cheney or interupt him when the Vice President was making his points. I have never enjoyed a Russert interview until yesterday. Bravo Mr. Vice President

[cookcounty]

Yousef's laptop:

Seized in 1995, it detailed the "bojinka" (Bosnian for "big bang") project, an elaborate plan to plant bombs for simultaneous detonation on up to 13 aircraft over the Pacific. That got everyone's attention. But there was also a sketchier scenario on the laptop about hijacking aircraft and flying them into "government buildings" in Washington.

Insight mag May 27th, I don't have a direct link for you, but this will get you there:

www.okcbombing.org/News%20Articles/Insightmag_052702.htm

[goodnesswins]

Thank you.

[cookcounty]

...sorry, Insight mag May 27th, 2002.

[norwaypinesavage]

"I'd be willing to bet others have, too."
I stopped watching Timmy about a year ago. I only watched the repeat last night after reading reports of it on the Sunday Talk Show Thread. Cheney was great. Timmy still isn't worth watching.

[Mr. Mojo]

Too bad the administration chose to emphasize Iraq's WMD arsenal rather than the Saddam-9/11-OBL connection prior to the war. Yeah, I realize that the evidence supporting that connection is still mounting daily, but we had enough to justify our actions many months before the war began.

[hchutch]

WOW!!

If Cheney is mentioning the Prague connection, I think that Mr. al-Ani has been singing like the proverbial canary.

And Salman Pak, too.

[newzhawk]

cheney looked and sounded great-took that toad russert to school.
prague...clinton's old haunt............

[Dog]

We know, for example, in connection with the original World Trade Center bombing in '93 that one of the bombers was Iraqi, returned to Iraq after the attack of '93. And we've learned subsequent to that, since we went into Baghdad and got into the intelligence files, that this individual probably also received financing from the Iraqi government as well as safe haven."

I mentioned this exact same point to Destro( I think) the other day on a thread.

We have the intelligence files and they are a gold mine!

[Dog]

FYI...

[Dave S]

Also, when talking about Iraq, he stated as fact: 1).There was no connection between Iraq and 9/11. 2).He stated as fact that the US was not at all welcomed as liberators.

No he didnt. He used some phrase like some say.... Maybe you ought to read a transcript the day after if you are not capable of watching it live without your internal censor causing you trouble.

[hchutch]

And they weren't destroyed?

Looks like we got lucky. Bill Gertz probably will be working some of his sources big time, IMHO.

[Dave S]

At any rate Brokaw started by saying despite the public impression aside (70% believe there is a link) no evidence exists to support it. Cheney, you and I may believe there is but you are going beyond the evidence to say that there IS a connection.

Cheney still says there is no evidence that Saddam knew of and funded/directed the 9/11 attacks. He merely was pointing out that there were some connections between Al Qaeda and Iraq. Is there a link between Saddam and terrorism, yes. Is there any proof that Saddam had anything to do with 9/11? No and that was the point of the question. 9/11 means the attacks on NY and Washington, not supporting terrorism in general.

Your logic is about the same as saying that Reagan ordered the Israelis to attack the Osirik Nuclear plant in 1981 to destroy Iraq's nuclear program. Reagan didnt order it, he didnt fund it, he may have known it was going to happen but so did any thinking person.

[new cruelty]

Just looking at the transcript now.

Regarding 2)He stated as fact that the US was not at all welcomed as liberators.

The transcript reads as follows:

MR. RUSSERT: Let me turn to one of the most quoted passages from MEET THE PRESS when you were on in March, and that was trying to anticipate the reaction we would receive from the Iraqi people. Let’s watch:

(Videotape, March 16, 2003):

VICE PRES. CHENEY: I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

MR. RUSSERT: If your analysis is not correct and we’re not treated as liberators but as conquerors and the Iraqis begin to resist particularly in Baghdad, do you think the American people are prepared for a long, costly and bloody battle with significant American casualties?

VICE PRES. CHENEY: Well, I don’t think it’s unlikely to unfold that way, Tim, because I really do believe we will be greeted as liberators. I’ve talked with a lot of Iraqis in the last several months myself, had them to the White House. The president and I have met with various groups and individuals, people who’ve devoted their lives from the outside to try and change things inside of Iraq.

The read we get on the people of Iraq is there’s no question but what they want to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that.

(End videotape)

MR. RUSSERT: We have not been greeted as liberated.

VICE PRES. CHENEY: Well, I think we have by most Iraqis. I think the majority of Iraqis are thankful for the fact that the United States is there, that we came and we took down the Saddam Hussein government. And I think if you go in vast areas of the country, the Shia in the south, which are about 60 percent of the population, 20-plus percent in the north, in the Kurdish areas, and in some of the Sunni areas, you’ll find that, for the most part, a majority of Iraqis support what we did.

[NeoCaveman]

Sounds to me like Cheney's been listening to Mylroie. By October next year they will lower the boom on people who were anti the Iraq campaign.

[hobbes1]

Well, Tanenhaus was ascribed to having said theat Wolfowitz belives both Mylroie, AND possibly JAYNA DAVIS

[Republican Red]

Beat me to it. I was just going to post that.

As for my statement that he asked the VP how he could run for re-election:

MR. RUSSERT: And we are back. Mr. Vice President, the economy and the Bush-Cheney record. The day you took office, Inauguration Day, as compared to now. Dow Jones is down 11 percent. Unemployment rate is up 49 percent. A $281 billion surplus is now a $500 billion plus deficit. Jobs, net loss of 2.6 million. The debt is up 20 percent and still growing. How can you run for re-election on that record?