WP PILES ON CHENEY: Iraq and 9/11 claims continue to be BOGUS

[ShaneGR]

Kind of reminds me of those Direct TV commercials where Danny Devito reads some customers letter.

"LIES! ALL LIES!"


"I have this much credibility left"

http://msnbc.com/news/973241.asp?0cv=CA00

(snip)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 — 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.




DRIP, DRIP, DRIP!

[Sliverofhope]

1. kick

Because the candidate civil wars are really just wasting everyone's fucking time.

[Stephanie]

2. What was Condi up to today on MTP?

When this came up, she sounded like Cheney:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/973028.asp

<snip><RICE:> He was a threat. He is now gone. The goal now is to put in his place, in the place of that horrible regime, a stable, prosperous, and democratizing Iraq. That will pay off many, many, many times over in security for the American people. What happened to us on September 11th should remind us that we have to fight the war on terror on the offense. We can’t fight from preventive defense. It’s fine to try and defend the country, but the president believes that we have to fight this war on the offense and Iraq is part of fighting that war.

MR. RUSSERT: But Iraq was not part of September 11th.

DR. RICE: No. Saddam Hussein—no one has said that there is evidence that Saddam Hussein directed or controlled 9/11, but let’s be very clear, he had ties to al-Qaeda, he had al-Qaeda operatives who had operated out of Baghdad. The key, though, is that this is—our security is indivisible, and having a change in this region, in the center of the Middle East, is going to make a tremendous difference to our long-term security.<more>

[RainDog]

3. This all leads me to think the Plame story starts with Cheney

and I will be doing the happy dance if and hopefully when I get to see Cheney do the perp walk.

(in my dreams, I know...his heart will keep in out of jail, or some other such b.s.)

[DemoTex]

4. Is MSNBC same as WP? "WP PILES ON CHENEY"

If not, please cite WP article. Maybe I'm overlooking it. Eh? Does WP still mean Washington Post? Clean this thread up, please.

[ShaneGR]

5. Uh, MSNBC carries material from the Washington Post (WP)

Click the link and see where the story came from.

By Dana Priest and Glenn Kessler
THE WASHINGTON POST

[DemoTex]

7. So does the Dallas Morning News

The citation was ambiguous, sorry.

Mac

[SoCalDem]

6. Lookeee-Lookeee

[ShaneGR]

8. SWEET

I love the cover.

[DemoTex]

9. Sorry. It's late. I thought I was on a big-cock porn site

That BIG, huh "Dick"?


(God I hate him!)

[Old and In the Way]

10. Didn't seem to bother him in 1998 when his company was

making profits by doing an end-around the US trade embargo.

Why would anyone believe anything this white collar criminal says is beyond me.