Cheney Reasserts Disproved al-Qaida-Saddam Link

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his assertions of al-Qaida links to Saddam Hussein's Iraq on Thursday as the Defense Department released a report citing more evidence that the prewar government did not cooperate with the terrorist group.

Cheney contended that al-Qaida was operating in Iraq before the March 2003 invasion led by U.S. forces and that terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was leading the Iraqi branch of al-Qaida. Others in al-Qaida planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

"He took up residence there before we ever launched into Iraq, organized the al-Qaida operations inside Iraq before we even arrived on the scene and then, of course, led the charge for Iraq until we killed him last June," Cheney told radio host Rush Limbaugh during an interview. "As I say, they were present before we invaded Iraq."

However, a declassified Pentagon report released Thursday said that interrogations of the deposed Iraqi leader and two of his former aides as well as seized Iraqi documents confirmed that the terrorist organization and the Saddam government were not working together before the invasion.

The Sept. 11 Commission's 2004 report also found no evidence of a collaborative relationship between Saddam and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network during that period.

[Tyler Durden]

1. There's medication for obsessive delusions.

[ck4829]

2. K&R - Cheney is delusional

[Skidmore]

3. If Cheney weren't a filthy rich, craven power monger, he'd

have been on a lock ward long ago.

[Botany]

4. When th truth is ugly ..... sell the lie.

Bottom line Cheney helped stack the deck with bad and misleading intel
about Iraq in order to sell a war that was pre-ordained by the neo cons and
energy companies that helped to rig the 2000 election.

The man needs to go to the Hague and be put on trial for war crimes.

[underpants]

6. If you haven't seen the new Fx show "The Riches" you should check it out

Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver play the Irish travler parents of three kids who take a dead couple's identity after a fatal car crash that only they see. They are on the run from the law and their fellow Irish travelers (arranged married and theft from the family safe)

In the show Izzard's character tells the kids that they have to "Believe the lie" doing that takes care of almost all else. If you believe people won't doubt you. Immerse yourself. Take the leap. BELIEVE THE LIE.

[spanone]

5. Guess there is no law about CONTINUALLY lying to the american people

sadly, this nation is no longer predicated on truth. the fucking truth is DEAD.

SNIP~The report's release came on the same day that Vice President Cheney, appearing on Rush Limbaugh's radio program, repeated his allegation that al-Qaeda was operating inside Iraq "before we ever launched" the war, under the direction of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist killed last June.

"This is al-Qaeda operating in Iraq," Cheney told Limbaugh's listeners about Zarqawi, who he said had "led the charge for Iraq." Cheney cited the alleged history to illustrate his argument that withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq would "play right into the hands of al-Qaeda."

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[rfranklin]

7. "D.C. Dick" = "Baghdad Bob"

Twins separated at birth.

[wicket]

8. Cheney = batshit insane

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