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Title: Cheney: No link between Saddam Hussein, 9/11
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URL Source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06 ... ch/index.html?iref=werecommend
Published: Jun 2, 2009
Author: cnn staff
Post Date: 2009-06-02 01:03:12 by IndieTX
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that he does not believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the planning or execution of the September 11, 2001, attacks. Former Vice President Dick Cheney says Saddam Hussein "provided sanctuary ... and resources to terrorists." He strongly defended the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq, however, arguing that Hussein's previous support for known terrorists was a serious danger after 9/11. Cheney, in an appearance at the National Press Club, also said he is intent on speaking out in defense of the Bush administration's national security record because "a clear understanding of policies that worked [in protecting the United States] is essential." "I do not believe and have never seen any evidence to confirm that [Hussein] was involved in 9/11. We had that reporting for a while, [but] eventually it turned out not to be true," Cheney conceded. But Hussein was "somebody who provided sanctuary and safe harbor and resources to terrorists. ... [It] is, without question, a fact." Cheney restated his claim that "there was a relationship between al Qaeda and Iraq that stretched back 10 years. It's not something I made up. ... We know for a fact that Saddam Hussein was a sponsor -- a state sponsor -- of terror. It's not my judgment. That was the judgment of our [intelligence community] and State Department." Cheney identified former CIA Director George Tenet as the "prime source of information" on the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda. Hussein was captured by U.S. forces in Iraq in December 2003. In November 2006, the former Iraqi leader was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death. He was executed the following December. Among other things Monday, Cheney also called the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center a "good facility ... if you are going to be engaged in a world conflict, such as we are, in terms of global war on terrorism. You know, if you don't have a place where you can hold these people, the only other option is to kill them. And we don't operate that way." Watch what Cheney has to say about the detention facility » He reiterated his call for President Obama to declassify documents detailing the results of "enhanced interrogations" of high-value detainees. Since Obama has already released memos detailing the interrogation methods, Cheney said, it is important to share the results of those interrogations with the public as well. "I would not ordinarily be leading the charge to declassify classified information, otherwise they wouldn't call me Darth Vader for nothing," Cheney said. But "once the [Obama] administration released the legal memos that gave the opinions that were used to guide the interrogation program, they'd given away the store. ... I [therefore] thought it was important to have the results that were gained from that interrogation program front and center as well." On May 14, the CIA rejected the former vice president's request to declassify the documents. CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano, in a written statement, said the two documents are the subject of pending lawsuits and therefore cannot be declassified. Cheney said Monday that the memos previously released also were the subject of ongoing lawsuits. He said Obama can release the additional documents with "the stroke of a pen." On May 21, Cheney gave a full-throated defense of the Bush administration's enhanced interrogations of al Qaeda prisoners during an appearance at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. He has said that the interrogations saved the lives of "thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands." He called the techniques the Bush administration approved "legal, essential, justified, successful and the right thing to do.
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He admitted he lied. This lie is something he always knew, and that 70% of the ameriKan sheople probably still believe - that we invaded Iraq because of 911.
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Bush finally admits what the world already knows
IMO, if BOTH Bush and Cheney were convicted tomorrow of treason by way of misleading the nation into going to war, Obama would pardon them within 24 hours.
I think he would pardon them before it even got that far much like Ford did with Nixon.
All the Iraq BS was a smokescreen to cover up the complete erasure of the border with mexico and the outsourcing of jobs to communist china.
_________________________________________________________________________ Note that Mr. Cheney has performed a sleight of hand here. First he said, "the toughest decision was...whether we would intercept incoming commercial aircraft." Later he said, "The president made the decision... that if the plane would not divert as a last resort, our pilots were authorized to take them out..." that is, "shoot it down." But "intercept": and "shoot it down" do not mean the same thing.
There'll be a season, Burn, burn, burn, When we punish treason, Burn, burn, burn, Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA."I do not believe and have never seen any evidence to confirm that [Hussein] was involved in 9/11. We had that reporting for a while, [but] eventually it turned out not to be true," Cheney conceded.
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IMO, if BOTH Bush and Cheney were convicted tomorrow of treason by way of misleading the nation into going to war, Obama would pardon them within 24 hours.
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