Cheney: no link between Saddam Hussein and Sept. 11 attacks

[struggle4progress]

Posted: 02:39 PM ET
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that he does 'not believe' and has 'never seen any evidence to confirm (Saddam Hussein) was involved in' the September 11, 2001 attacks.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that he does "not believe" and has "never seen any evidence to confirm (Saddam Hussein) was involved in" the September 11, 2001 attacks ...

Among other things, he called the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center a "good facility … if you are going to be engaged in a world conflict such as we are in terms of global war on terrorism. You know, if you don't have a place where you can hold these people the only other option is to kill them. And we don't operate that way" ... http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/01/cheney-no-link-between-saddam-hussein-and-sept-11-attacks/



EYES ON IRAQ; In Cheney's Words: The Administration Case for Removing Saddam Hussein
Published: Tuesday, August 27, 2002
... Many of us are convinced that Saddam Hussein will acquire nuclear weapons fairly soon ... Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction; there is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/27/world/eyes-iraq-cheney-s-words-administration-case-for-removing-saddam-hussein.html


Cheney: Saddam working on nuclear weapons
<10 Sept 2002>
... "We have to be concerned now about the possibility that we're vulnerable to an attack the likes of which we did not experience prior to last September 11 -- with a far more deadly weapon," Cheney said. "We have to worry about the possible marriage, if you will, of a rogue state like Saddam Hussein's Iraq with a terrorist organization like al Qaeda" ...
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/09/cheney.interview/index.html


NBC News
MEET THE PRESS
Sunday, September 8, 2002
GUEST: Vice President DICK CHENEY
MODERATOR/PANELIST: Tim Russert - NBC News
... VICE PRES. CHENEY: ... But come back to 9/11 again, and one of the real concerns about Saddam Hussein, as well, is his biological weapons capability; the fact that he may, at some point, try to use smallpox, anthrax, plague, some other kind of biological agent against other nations, possibly including even the United States. So this is not just a one-dimensional threat. This just isn’t a guy who’s now back trying once again to build nuclear weapons ... http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/meet.htm


Cheney said in 2004 Gitmo detainees revealed Iraq-al Qaida link
Vice President Dick Cheney
By Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Then-Vice President Dick Cheney, defending the invasion of Iraq, asserted in 2004 that detainees interrogated at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp had revealed that Iraq had trained al Qaida operatives in chemical and biological warfare, an assertion that wasn't true. Cheney's 2004 comments to the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News were largely overlooked at the time. However, they appear to substantiate recent reports that interrogators at Guantanamo and other prison camps were ordered to find evidence of alleged cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein — despite CIA reports that there were only sporadic, insignificant contacts between the militant Islamic group and the secular Iraqi dictatorship ... http://www.mcclatchydc.com/politics/story/68315.html

[dgibby]

1. I think he's trying to build an insanity defense. He also came out in favor of gay marriage.

What's wrong with this picture?

[rhett o rick]

2. There isn't a court in this land that wouldn't agree that Richard Cheney is insane.

It is so sad that he makes his daughter follow after him trying to clear his name. He has no shame or sense or compassion or ...................

[lk9550]

3. NOW he admits it?

Um.. It's about 6 years too late for that, Dick.