Dick Cheney says there was no connection between Iraq and 9/11 after using that claim to push us into war.
By John Amato Tuesday Jun 02, 2009 5:00pm
Dick Cheney is still making the rounds and last night he was on FOX with Greta only he was accompanied by his outspoken daughter Liz. I wonder if he's been feeding her classified data since she is an expert now on all things secret within the intelligence community? In this short video mash-up, I have video of Cheney repeatedly pushing the notion that Saddam and al-Qaeda were linked up and Iraq had a hand in the 9/11 attacks when he was a frequent guest on Meet The Press during the push for war. It's followed up by his Greta bit where he now says that there was no connection between Saddam---al-Qaeda and 9/11. he also pushed that Saddam had WMD's lest we forget that too.I know he feels that Americans are too stupid to remember his act, but some of us aren't. He's also now blaming ex-CIA leader George Tenet for the mistake.
On the question of whether or not Iraq was involved in 9-11, there was never any evidence to prove that,” he told the Fox host. “There was “some reporting early on … but that was never borne out… [Former CIA Director] George [Tenet] … did say and did testify that there was an ongoing relationship between al-Qaeda and Iraq, but no proof that Iraq was involved in 9-11.”
Cheney didn't need proof to whip up the American people that has cost the lives of thousands of innocent Iraqis and American troops. In the new Dick Armey book, Armey says that Cheney lied to him about Saddam and al-Qaeda.
The threat Cheney described went far beyond public statements that have been criticized for relying on "cherry-picked" intelligence of unknown reliability. There was no intelligence to support the vice president's private assertions, Gellman reports, and they "crossed so far beyond the known universe of fact that they were simply without foundation."
"Did Dick Cheney . . . purposely tell me things he knew to be untrue?" Armey said. "I seriously feel that may be the case. . . . Had I known or believed then what I believe now, I would have publicly opposed [the war] resolution right to the bitter end, and I believe I might have stopped it from happening."
Then of course there was this 2003 Washington Post article that says Cheney was constantly pressuring the CIA to link al-Qaeda to Saddam:
Vice President Cheney and his most senior aide made multiple trips to the CIA over the past year to question analysts studying Iraq's weapons programs and alleged links to al Qaeda, creating an environment in which some analysts felt they were being pressured to make their assessments fit with the Bush administration's policy objectives, according to senior intelligence officials.
With Cheney taking the lead in the administration last August in advocating military action against Iraq by claiming it had weapons of mass destruction, the visits by the vice president and his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, "sent signals, intended or otherwise, that a certain output was desired from here," one senior agency official said yesterday.
He's always been a liar and nothing he says now should be clear him of that. IN 2002 he said that Saddam had WMD's in an effort to scare the American people into supporting the invasion of Iraq.
In a speech to the Nashville convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vice President Dick Cheney says Saddam Hussein will “seek domination of the entire Middle East, take control of a great portion of the world’s energy supplies, directly threaten America’s friends throughout the region, and subject the United States or any other nation to nuclear blackmail.” He also states unequivocally that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.… What he wants is time, and more time to husband his resources to invest in his ongoing chemical and biological weapons program, and to gain possession of nuclear weapons.… Deliverable weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a terror network, or a murderous dictator, or the two working together constitutes as grave a threat as can be imagined,” he says.
“The risks of inaction are far greater than the risk of action.… The Iraqi regime has in fact been very busy enhancing its capabilities in the field of chemical and biological agents, and they continue to pursue the nuclear program they began so many years ago.”
I guess that's Tenet's fault too along with the aluminum tubes story and I gather that Tenet waterboarded him into making those claims on TV.
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to save your ass, huh, cheney?
it becomes all too obvious why cheney and bush
would not testify under oath or before congress
about the war, sadam or wmds. they knew they
were lying and are still lying.
They new they were doing wrong, and they were hiding it.
this time:
Reporter: What did Iraq have to do with 9/11?"
Bush: "Nothing!!!":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSunCsrkLTw
ask any wingnut minion about whether Saddam had anything to do with 9-11 and predictably they will say he was involved. Maybe boooosh technically told the truth but his administration's dishonest claims of links between Al Qaeda and Saddam have the minions believing, to their deaths, that he was intimately involved.
Mission Accomplished!
I guess.
I'm pretty sure it was known unreliability
if he said it without being read his Mirandas?
Everything can be used according to Johnathan Turley.
*sigh*
Dick is a dick-sgrace and he belongs behind bars.
Not good enough!
He committed treason, war crimes, lied to congress!
Putting him behind bars is not a harsh enough penalty.
When found guilty, after a fair and speedy trial, he needs to be made an example of.
can we waterboard him for good measure? He seems to think it works so why not give it a shot? Even if he doesn't tell us everything we want to know, we'll still be having fun.
It's a little late for all this furious backpedalling, isn't it?
Well, I hope he does continue his furious pace ... maybe his heart will FINALLY give out.
So Dick Cheney lied - if you really want a scoop, catch him telling the truth.
Can someone explain to me how this guy has not been indicted yet?
I don't think anyone can.
By who, Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi?
the "Power Elite".
Next question?
Why exactly is Obama protecting him and his pinhead ex-boss?
know that?
Same as above.
Because Obama's Justice Department isn't investigating Bushco's crimes, despite the vast evidence of those crimes? Because Obama invoked "state secrets" in attempting to prevent the courts from reviewing the legality of the NSA's warantless wiretapping program? Because Obama has said over and over that he wants to "look ahead," not back at Bushco's crimes? Because the Obama administration threatened to cease all intelligence ties with Britain if it revealed that a British suspect held at Guantanamo Bay had been tortured into confessing to being part of a dirty bomb plot? Because Obama’s lawyers are arguing that Ex-Guantanamo detainees have no constitutional rights as a way to defend Bushco against lawsuits?
I could go on and on, but I assume you get the idea now.
he was a figurehead. Just like the amiable dunce, Ronnie Reagan, another marionette. The only difference was Ronnie could read lines. Boosh, as explained, he was idiocy on steroids.
You cannot pigeonhole Obama as much as you would like to. He knows the true crook here is Cheney. He will give him the rope he eagerly keeps taking, and because he and his ilk think they are infallible, he (Cheney) will hang himself.
Of course, if you think the powers that be are willingly inviting a willing Obama to be a part of their world of noveau riche, more power to you. Reminds me of the mininions of the right tho!
Me, I am willing to bet that someone as smart as he, and being a member of the minority world within AmerryKa, may think of things you have no way of imagining.
You know at least with Bush and this Cheney piece of shit, we knew what we were dealing with....even if most of the dumm', stupid, retard, redneck motherfuckers in this country didn't.
This Obama guy, face it, he will lie through his teeth and make all the 'liberals' swoon and ... sit on their fat white asses......talk about 'mission accomplished'.
Progressives aren't fooled.
Rachel Maddow with Bob Graham - same topic.
Cheney Needs To Realize The War Is Over And He Lost! Sen Bob Graham
Rachel nails it once again. Cheney's lies are catching up to him.
In the video clip, where was the audience that Cheney was addressing? In front of him or to his left? His posture the whole time was really weird.
of his advance for the book he's been writing in his man-sized safe.
No shit Sherlock!
Did Basil told you that, dick?
I don't know how you can do this day in and day out. It drives me mad reading about it - must make you crazy. But thank you for enlightening us with this kind of info!!!
It drives me mad too. This guy is one of the biggest mass-murderers in American history. I have a feeling he will get what's coming to him, albeit perhaps 20 years from now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBEQYnpFrcU
And we had a huge ruckus over a BJ?
Isnt this the kind of stuff called you know...treasonous? Kinda makes Nixon look like a preschooler in the books of crooks and liars (no pun intended).
Hell Benedict Arnold has more honor and integrity of this waste of humanity.
Cheney was probably insisting there was no connection all along, and we just refused to listen. Or at least that's what we'll be hearing from him next.
"Cheney was probably insisting there was no connection all along, and we just refused to listen. Or at least that's what we'll be hearing from him next."
"Cheney Blames 9/11 On Richard Clarke: "He Obviously Missed It"
"Richard Clarke was the head of the counter-terrorism program in the run up to 9/11," Cheney declared. "He obviously missed it."
There is, of course, the August memo, handed to the president, which declared that al Qaeda was determined to attack the United States. Clarke himself wrote in his book that in the run-up to 9/11 he expressed deep concern over such an attack, but to no avail.
http://www.alternet.org/rss/4/58315
I mean, why should Dickhead let FACTS get in the way of his fiction?
I really hate this man. Every day he goes free is a day our country is not.
is an astute observation!
This man is worried. His words are those of a guilty war criminal soliciting his daughter (like the coward that he has always proven himself to be) to do his echoing of false conclusions, distorted logic and justification of lies.
If he were a man, he'd turn himself over to the Spanish Court and let the chips fall where they may; instead he will drag this country into the mud in his ultimate failure of defending his actions. Buckle your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride; kicking and screaming like a starving infant on a hot sweaty day after he has soiled himself.
I really like the way Greta Van Palin Stalker laid the carpet out for the Dick to scapegoat Tenent.
If only Tenent hand't ignored the memo "Bin Laden determine to strike the US" then proceed to take the entire month of August off prior to 911 then 911 would have never happened.
The Katrina response? Tenet's fault too.
Remorseless. Maximim penalty for this kind of person.
Everytime I read this headline in the news, I am reminded of my dead soldier friend, over and over and over...and thousands of others.
"Richard Clarke is responsible for ignoring 9-11."
"George Tenet is responsible for false Iraq-9/11 connection."
Cheney's been throwing them all under the bus recently.
He throws his on daughter to lions to save his own cowardly hide. What does one expect from a 5 deferments chickenhawk.
from Tenent to Clarke to Powell...everyone who right fully went against Dead Eye Dick's nefarious plan is now being blamed for it by Dead Dick Himself.
Makes you wonder why he was given the Medal huh? Job well done?
BREAKING NEWS:
People, it is clear to me, and should be to everyone, that Dick Cheney has COMPLETELY LOST HIS FUCKING MIND!
And now, back to our regular programming
He's lied so many times that it's all a blur to him.
Just lie and lie and lie and expect to get away with it.
one lie after the other.
Tells you so much about the U.S. now.
this dirtbag cheney for lying to congress, for lying
to the American public to push us into a phony war should
have his nuts relocated and stuffed in his mouth.
this bastard has confessed to lying to us and for torture,
he should be impeached and/or turned over to a foreign
govt for war crimes, evidently no one in congress
are willing to follow the law either.
This fireside chat reeks of the Addams Family, but without any humor.
previous life to deserve being born into that family!
otherwise, they'd already have him in the stylish orange jump suit, with his ankles manacled together.
Mark my words.
She will run for an office.
We haven't seen the last of THEM!
He pretty much confessed that he lied to send us to war. How much more evidence do we need to arrest him? Arrest the piece of shit, we know where he is. Just go to FOX headquarters and put him in handcuffs.
When will it become widely accepted that the dick is a certifiable psychopath? Look at the very basic description of psycopath and you will see that the shooter is the perfect example of a psycopath. His poor little innocent daughter (hurl) is just an innocent bystander to the pontification of evil that her father is. Anyone can see that! (I hope that the sarcasm is not lost in this statement.)
This ass-hole that deserves to be stood up in front of a firing squad, with his knees shaking his teeth out, should never again be allowed in front of a microphone other than one that he could speak to the judges at the Hague.
I would make a request to that court that I be allowed to pull the trigger at his execution for the war crimes that he has committed.
He deserves nothing better than to stand before a firing squad and have a bullet put through his head. After all, he does not have a heart. Maybe he needs a stake driven through his heart.
Can that statement be entered as "exhibit A" in Cheney's war crimes tribunal?
...and saying "Oh, well. What the heck."
...and ya just wanna throttle him.
Look for Tenet to throw Cheney under the bus in the next couple days if the press can find him.
a good witness against Cheney. He has already lied in his book.
These people are not going to take Cheney's shit for very long.
Who will be the first to say that Cheney DEMANDED that the intelligence fit the desire.
What's holding 60 Minutes back from doing a story on this?
Paging Sibel Edmonds ....
I don't get it. The story is right there.
Scott Ritter said long before we went to war that there were no WMD's and it fell on deaf ears. He also stated that after this war has begun we will find that the Bush administration has stretched the truth to meet their whims. SCOTT RITTER was a weapons inspector. Who else do we listen to............Condi Rice?
Scott Ritter: he served as a ballistic missile advisor to General Norman Schwarzkopf.
Scott Ritter: served from 1991 to 1998 as a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq
Scott Ritter: "The United States is going to leave Iraq with its tail between its legs"
Tell me where the hell this guy is wrong?
HE IS A REPUBLICAN!!
After watching this it becomes so obvious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSunCsrkLTw (thanks Abbybwood)
Not that we didn't already know it but now that we have a President that speaks with authority it seems so much more painful to think about the last 8 years.
It's just as painful to think it could happen again if Bush and Cheney are not prosecuted to the full extent od the law. There won't be a convenient time to do it, but it must be done to save the nation.
But nothing has infuriated me to this point since the beginning of the Iraq war. Now he admits he lied? I have a cynical feeling that nothing will come of this.
want you to see.
How many politicians have we gone through hoping things will get better only to see them slide over the edge?
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Damn you to goddamn hell DICK!!!
Keith O and Arianna on this http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-tv/arianna...
So after starting a war of choice and lying to the American people, you're now admitting you're a liar? What a dick. Burn in hell.
More and more people, regular people, need to put this man in his place. It needs to become a mainstream view that this man is a crook, because he is. It's time to put a stop to his credibility, we know he has none.
Dick Cheney had weapons of mass destruction, In was proven cause he used them against a nation that did not attack us.
Wasn't he one of the republicans calling for nancy pelosi to resign for saying bad things about the cia? Now cheney is dogging george tenet and the same intelligence pesonnel that existed when nancy was briefed. Is this an admission that nancy is right?
some of the rightwing/liberals may hear you and condemn you. Them Nancy haters here are just as vicious as wingnuttia!
NOT as vicious as a wingnut.
He is trying to hang this all on Tenet. What a bunch of crap.
Cheney never trusted The CIA or anyone else for that matter; he completely controlled the agenda. Now suddenly it is all Tenet's doing. He is throwing Tenet under the bus. In a vain effort to save his reptilian old hide. Tenet is an ineffectual dork, but he does not deserve this.
It is all Cheney's doing. The evil old bastard ran the whole Bush Presidency while the Shrub was on permanent vacation and now suddenly nothing is his fault. Not only is he evil but he is gutless as well.
You know what, fuck this punk.....have these fucking assholes never heard of karma. Dick, hang around and see what happens you old fat piece of shit...that goes for your son there too.
..the world doesn't want to know that we invaded Iraq to make people rich and steal oil from Iraq. All that "collateral damage", dead Iraqis, dead soldiers, torture of Iraqi citizens, 1.7 TRILLION dollars (the cost of invading) being paid for by American taxpayers, increasing terrorist numbers, all of it just because they needed to make Halliburton, KBR and who-ever else wealthy.
Don't believe me? When Russia invaded Afghanistan, it was over oil. We took the moral high ground and went after OBL, al-Qaeda and the Taliban, let OBL go, reinforced the Taliban who are now a pain in the buttocks for Pakistan who Bush funneled how much to, only to get them to ignore the growing threat and let OBL go when the military had actionable intelligence as to his location and then, set up a pipeline for oil in Afghanistan. Who got all the contracts in Iraq for the OIL? At first, it was Iraqi companies but not anymore. People can criticize me all they want; I never wanted to believe this was "profiteering" run amok but..if the shoe fits..! How do we insure this never happens again? Trials and Punishment!, the sooner the better!
Cheney is a cold-blooded killer. Period. Bring him up on charges, try him in a court of law, convict him and hang him like Saddam.
Because of a man like Cheney I lost my son in Iraq.
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