Dick Cheney Was Right

The Weekly Standard ^ | 10/20/03 | Stephen F. Hayes

[Pan_Yans Wife]

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[DustyMoment]

Well, let's go back to the basics. The Bush administration has NEVER said that Saddam was responsible for or involved with 9/11. What they said was that Saddam was linked to al-Qaida. It is the lamestream media that changed the story to say that Saddam was linked to 9/11 and then tried to pin it on the Bush administration.

The two stories are neither equivalent, nor are they the same. For them to now claim that Cheney is the one lying only makes their original lie that much larger.

These people are so full of hatred and so full of themselves that even when told something as simple as "we don't know" (how much simpler does it get?), they try to smear the Bush administration. And, yet, they had no problem with other infamous phrases such as "I never had sexual relations with that woman . . . Miss Lewinsky" or "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is".

And they expect us to believe that there is no bias in the media. Sorry, we aren't ALL Democrats.

[Agnes Heep]

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but Bush's take on al-Qaeda and Iraq was that the connection between the two created the risk of a future attack on the U.S. that could only be averted by brining down Saddam. I find it hard to believe that any reasonable person could deny it.

[Cboldt]

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but Bush's take on al-Qaeda and Iraq was that the connection between the two created the risk of a future attack on the U.S. that could only be averted by brining down Saddam.

I'd even "water it down" more than that. There was never a promise of averting all attacks, and certainly no promise of averting a specific attack. I do believe that the intention (and a reasonable justification) was to reduce the capability to pull off terrorist attacks. Not stated, but implied, is that this reduced capability works in more places than the US.

I personally think it's keen to have the battles on the enemy's turf, instead of on ours.

[Wonder Warthog]

[Dusty Moment] "The two stories are neither equivalent, nor are they the same. For them to now claim that Cheney is the one lying only makes their original lie that much larger."

[Agnes Heep] "I find it hard to believe that any reasonable person could deny it."

There you go again, expecting logic from liberals. Don't you know that liberals only use emotion in their decision-making processes.

[secretagent]

FYI

[driftless]

The fact that an idiot like Derrick Z. Jackson is, as usual, on the side of the war critics should convince many fence-sitters of the virtues of the Bush admininstration's moves. The critics are ignoring a lot of smoke to say that there is no fire. They have their heads stuck firmly in the sand. They do not want to believe any evidence of Iraq-Al-qaeda collusion for obvious reasons. It would prove them wrong. Well they are extremely wrong. But they've convinced themeselves that by shouting louder and louder that they are right. That just makes them fools.

[Agnes Heep]

There you go again, expecting logic from liberals. Don't you know that liberals only use emotion in their decision-making processes.

True enough, but I qualified the statement by saying "reasonable" people. None of that sort exists amongst the liberal set, I daresay.

[Agnes Heep]

Even if Saddam hadn't been involved, the process of kicking his sorry butt has undoubtedly had a sobering effect on any national leader who might think to crawl into bed with the terrorists. I think it will spare this country the horror of large-scale attacks for the foreseeable future, just as Israel's new policy of holding the gun to Arafat's head has bought them a period of relative quiet.

[joesnuffy]

Probably doesnt help that the US govt. refused to hire
80 qualified/experienced Arabic translators
for fear of offending Muslims....
-because they were Jews
no fear of offending Jews apparently

[Cicero]

It's been nearly six months. That call never came. As of Thursday, no one from the U.S. government had contacted Potter about the document his editors are now holding.

It's been obvious for a couple of years that the CIA doesn't WANT to find any connection between al Qaeda and Saddam. There's no other way to explain why they have failed to investigate this lead, which was widely publicized at the time.

This article doesn't even mention Atta's meeting in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence agent. He flew over especially to meet with this guy. GEORGE TENET repeatedly and personally denied to the press that the meeting took place. The only trouble is, the top Czech officials who insisted that he did continued to stick to their story. Does anybody believe that sick clintonoid Tenet?

It's unlikely that something like this can ever be proven 100%. But I'd say that the evidence so far indicates maybe 90 or 95%. Tenet is a traitor, to his president and to his country. He's one more clintonoid who puts ideology and power ahead of the national interest.

[wizardoz]

You know, "evidence" and "proof" is a good distinction. Liberals settle for "evidence" in cases where the target is conservative, but demand ironclad "proof" when the target is liberal or anti-American (redundant, I know.)

[wizardoz]

Probably doesnt help that the US govt. refused to hire 80 qualified/experienced Arabic translators for fear of offending Muslims.... -because they were Jews no fear of offending Jews apparently

Hopefully recent events at Gitmo is prompting them to reconsider this policy.

[Z-28]

Who really cares whether Saddam has WMDs or el Queda terrorist training camps?

Terrorism is terrorism is terrorism. The nationality doesn't really matter does it?

Is an Iraqi homicide bomber OK, and a Palistinian homicide bomber not OK?

I say kill them all.

[windchime]

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[SW6906]

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