Cheney's War Stock

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Published on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 by the Daytona Beach News-Journal
Cheney's War Stock
Editorial

Vice President Dick Cheney was not in very good truthful form on NBC's "Meet the Press" a week ago. Asked about polls that showed a majority of Americans believing that Saddam Hussein was involved in planning the 9/11 attacks, Cheney said, "I think it's not surprising that people make that connection," adding that the jury was still out whether an actual connection existed. Not true: The intelligence community has dismissed the possibility of a link. At any rate, Cheney's coy and continuing peddling of a baseless connection led President Bush himself to set the record straight a few days later: "No," he told a reporter, "we've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th."

Cheney was just flirting with lies regarding Iraq. But lost in the winks and nudges of his appearance on "Meet the Press" was an outright lie regarding his ties to Halliburton, the oil service company he headed in the 1990s: "Since I left Halliburton to become George Bush's vice president, I've severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all of my financial interest. I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had, now, for over three years."

Really?




http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0923-09.htm


This is such an obvious case of conflict of interest. In various forms it has been clinging to life... hopefully at some point it will have legs. It's a great example of the Bush cabal's 'pay for access' policy, and a fine demonstration of the fact that Cheney is a pathological liar.

[dennis4868]

1. AND CHENEY GETS AWAY WITH IT....

if this was Clinton or Gore there would already be impeachment hearings and all kinds of special prosecutors all over the place....the repubs and so called "liberal" media would be covering this story non-stop demanding resignations!