Cheney revives Iraq assertions (Boston Globe)

[Clark4Prez]

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/01/23/cheney_revives_iraq_assertions/

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney revived two controversial assertions about the war in Iraq yesterday, declaring there is "overwhelming evidence" that Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Al Qaeda and that two trailers discovered after the war are proof of Iraq's biological weapons programs.


he vice president stood by positions that others in the administration have largely abandoned in recent months, as preliminary analysis of the trailers has been called into question and new evidence -- including a document found with Hussein when he was captured -- cast doubt on theories that Iraq and Al Qaeda collaborated.

Cheney's comments were seen as stoking new controversy over Iraq just as the vice president is embarking on a trip to an economic summit in Switzerland and meetings with European officials, some of them fierce opponents of the war who have been dismissive of US claims about the threat posed by Iraq.

[lastknowngood]

1. That's the good thing about

his undisclosed location. He apparently is totally disconnected from the world.

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Yea, he must be delivering the goods

Since Kay has said there are none and doesn't believe there ever were. Why else would Cheney make such a statement.

[pinniped]

3. If Lucifer Chainknee tells me 100,000,000,000 more times I'll believe him.

:eyes:

Go crawl back to your bunker, jerkoff.

[The Night Owl]

4. What is going on here?

How can Cheney make such unequivocal yet false statements?

These recent assertions by Cheney are bizzare. Cheney has either lost his marbles or there is some kind of weird political strategy in play.

[mike1963]

5. He learned well from Goebbels.

A BIG lie is more effective than a small fib. And that's understandable...when relatively uninformed people hear something that's so patently outrageous that it seems impossible, there's a strong tendency to suppose it simply -must- be true (because nobody would really ever tell such a huge whopper.)

[daleo]

6. Hard to believe Cheney is still sane.

Unless there is some bizarre PNAC/Neocon version of good cop/bad cop being played out - Cheney is strictly red meat for the crazy crowd, while Kay admits the truth to swing some votes from more reasonable people. All the while, * repeats the mantra about bad Saddam/torture rooms/rape rooms/bringing democracy. Listening to them all makes your head hurt.

[jamesinca]

7. He is citing evidence that was leaked to the Weekly Standard

I believe that is the publication. This topic was addressed in the daily misleader, a project of moveon.org. Chenney is talking of an article that was supposedly a leak to the Weekly Standard from an administration official. When it first happened it was called a deplorable act, to report something that may be leaked confidential material, and it was also shown to be false. He is now citing the article and calling it proof. The WH proved it wrong, they called the act deplorable and now Chenney is calling it proof because it was reported by the media.