Iraq, 9/11 Still Linked by Cheney

[kskiska]

Monday, September 29, 2003; Page A01

In making the case for war against Iraq, Vice President Cheney has continued to suggest that an Iraqi intelligence agent met with a Sept. 11, 2001, hijacker five months before the attacks, even as the story was falling apart under scrutiny by the FBI, CIA and the foreign government that first made the allegation.

The alleged meeting in Prague between hijacker Mohamed Atta and Iraqi Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani was the single thread the administration has pointed to that might tie Iraq to the attacks. But as the Czech government distanced itself from its initial assertion and American investigators determined Atta was probably in the United States at the time of the meeting, other administration officials dropped the incident from their public statements about Iraq.

Not Cheney, who was the administration's most vociferous advocate for going to war with Iraq. He brought up the connection between Atta and al-Ani again two weeks ago in an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" in which he also suggested links between Iraq and the Sept. 11 attacks.

Cheney described Iraq as "the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but most especially on 9/11." Neither the CIA nor the congressional joint inquiry that investigated the assault on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon found any evidence linking Iraq to the hijackers or the attacks. President Bush corrected Cheney's statement several days later.



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[DemoVet]

1. Sounds like his brain is starting to go the way of his heart

not uncommon in severe peripheral vascular disease. When that stroke comes it's going to be a beaut, if the MI doesn't get there first. Maybe we should start a pool? Somehow I don't think he'll be missed by the regime, feel like he's being phased out anyway. After 2004 he'll be able to sit off somewhere while his lap slowly fills with drool, not a bad image, is it?

[Resistance Is Futile]

2. Meet Mr. Fall Guy

Cheney is going to go down as the fall guy for the Iraq debacle. The only reason for him to continue to issue factually incorrect statements is in the hope that the public will pin all of the blame for Iraq on him rather than on Chimpy.

[Kucinich04]

3. How can this man be SUCH a LIAR

and STILL the media lets him get away with it?!? The Post should be BLASTING this friggin liar, yet they report it so casually, with all the gravitas they'd have if they were remarking about a local child who'd been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Oh, hey, check out that WACKY DICK! Unbelievable...

[newyawker99]

11. Hi Kucinich04!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[sventvkg]

4. Why hasn't 6 Heart attacks killed t his bastard yet????

I have never heard of anyone having so many heart attacks and still be breathing...WTF!!!!?? When will the Big on hit????

[DemoVet]

5. When someone drives a stake through his heart

or maybe a silver bullet? No, wait, those are for werewolves, not chickenhawks!

[NickB79]

12. When you sell your soul to the Devil

You can live a long time without a heart.

[RandomKoolzip]

6. "Hey Dick, can you get me that popcorn out of the microwave?""AIGGH!!!"

Geddit? He uses a pacemaker, see, and micro- Oh, forget it.

Don't take this seriously, I don't wish death or any ill will on anyone, even the evil fucker calling himself the vice president, but come ON! Why do we have to continue living in this nightmare?

[FauxNewsBlues]

7. The thing that you must know about Cheney is...

He is a very evil mother fucker who drove his daughter to lesbianism and his wife to lesbian porn. That is their utter contempt with the male gender after being exposed to too much Dick.

I hope he has the big one. Scratch that... I hope he hasn't updated his living will and that he has a debilitating stroke that leaves him unable to speak, unable to walk, but alive, and suffering for decades to come.

Other than that, I think Dick is swell.

[RandomKoolzip]

8. You realize we both could be drawn and quartered for what we both

have suggested? Well, if there's any NSA or Homeland Securilty agents reading this, I just have one thing to say:

"Hi!"

[rman]

9. Cheney, get with the program

offically:
- there's no WMDs, though we'll keep searching till we find them
- there no evidence for a link between 9-11 and Saddam, and it was never suggested that there is such a link
- it was not a pre-emptive war: we'v always been at war with Eurasia, recently it escalated somewhat

[frank frankly]

10. Hey Tricky Dick Cheney

The oddsmakers have you gone by December...