Cheney Defends Iraq Stance

[realFedUp]

(it's pathetic when the LA Times has to print a TV interview
as front page news.)

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-cheney15sep15,1,5904277.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Cheney Defends Iraq Stance
The vice president stands by prewar claims of banned weapons and links to Al Qaeda.

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Alissa J. Rubin
Times Staff Writers

September 15, 2003

WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney, a leading advocate of the war in Iraq rarely heard in the public debate, on Sunday strongly defended his prewar claims that Iraq posed a chemical, biological and nuclear threat and that it had links to Al Qaeda. Cheney is the latest Bush administration figure to speak out forcefully on Iraq policy, from the rationale for the invasion to postwar security and reconstruction. President Bush addressed the nation last week, and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell visited Iraq on Sunday.

Democrats and even some Republicans have questioned the handling of the Iraq campaign, which has been beset by ongoing violence. On Sunday, one U.S. soldier was killed and three others were injured in Fallouja, a day after residents wielding guns pledged to avenge the accidental shooting of at least eight Iraqi policemen and a Jordanian security guard by American troops. Cheney denied that U.S. troops have become "bogged down" in Iraq and pressed for funds to get "the job done right." But even as the vice president made his case, leading Democrats, eyeing new polls showing public concerns about the price tag, called for a freeze on Bush's tax cuts to help defray the administration's request for an additional $87 billion to pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In his comments on NBC's "Meet the Press," Cheney was forceful in discussing weapons of mass destruction. Saddam Hussein's alleged possession of such arms was one of the main justifications for the invasion, and Cheney had stated the case in starker terms than any other major administration figure.
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[ewagner]

1. This doesn't square

Take this snippet from Cheney's MTP interview yesterday:

In his comments on NBC's "Meet the Press," Cheney was forceful in discussing weapons of mass destruction. Saddam Hussein's alleged possession of such arms was one of the main justifications for the invasion, and Cheney had stated the case in starker terms than any other major administration figure.

Combine that with at least three reports coming out of Great Britain that the infamous Kay's Weapons Report has been shelved indefinitely.

and....you have a recipe for confusion.

What's going on here?

[realFedUp]

2. He's lying?

just a guess...

[TioDiego]

4. He didn't lie.

He "misspoke".

[oc2001]

3. Tim Russet makes me want to puke.

That interview was more like a monolog supported by Tim, and his 'whatever you say Dic must be true' mentality. The whole interview was just so cheesy it was nothing more than a re-winded tape of all the prevous misadministrations interviews wrapped into a big ball of smelly lies, or 'I misspoke'.

No, its worse than that, its an insult to true journalist that would of responded to Dick with some hard ball questions about this whole mess the country is in.

bah, sick, just sick.

[realFedUp]

6. you do have to wonder what Russert gets as his reward

for softballing this administration.

[Parche]

8. Meet The Press

For once I liked Tim Russerts questions, he seemed to stab at the
jerk dickhead cheney,
and as usual dickhead would go off in a tangent of words and trying
to make everyone believe in what he says is the truth and nothing butt the truth, butt he lies

[rwork]

5. One of the dumbest things he ever said

during some republican speech "love in." The dangers this president has faced, are unprecedented.

[grytpype]

7. The WaPo article on the interview refutes some of Cheney's lies:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10734-2003Sep14.html