VIDEO: Cheney's Desperate Lying On Meet The Press Today

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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/10/cheney-cites-zarqawi/

Cheney Ignores Senate Intel Report, Cites Zarqawi As Evidence of Iraq/Al Qaeda Connection

On Friday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report that concluded there was no relationship between Saddam Hussein and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. According to the report, “a CIA assessment in October 2005 concluded that Hussein’s government ‘did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates.’” In fact, Hussein tried to capture Zarqawi.

This morning on Meet the Press, Cheney repeatedly cited Zarqawi as the link between pre-war Iraq and al-Qaeda. When Tim Russert mentioned the Senate Intelligence Committee report, Cheney said he “hadn’t seen it.” Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/?tag=Iraq

Transcript:

CHENEY: You’ve got Iraq and Al Qaeda, testimony from the Director of C.I.A. that there was indeed a relationship — Zarqawi in baghdad. et cetera. Then the

RUSSERT: The committee said there was no relationship. in fact saddam —

CHENEY: I haven’t seen the report. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet.

RUSSERT: But Mr. Vice President the bottom line is…

CHENEY: We know that Zarqawi running the terrost camp in Afghanistan prior to 9/11. After we went in after 9/11, then fled and went to Baghdad and set up operations in Baghdad in the spring of 2002 and was there and then basically until the time we launched into Iraq.

[Lowell]

1. Cheney is as out of touch

as Baghdad Bob. He has absolutely no credibility anymore, if he ever did. He's just more articulate that Bush, not smarter.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Let me see now

We know that Zarqawi running the terrost camp in Afghanistan prior to 9/11. After we went in after 9/11, then fled and went to Baghdad and set up operations in Baghdad in the spring of 2002 and was there and then basically until the time we launched into Iraq.

If a drug dealer in Amsterdam or Bangkok feels the heat and moves to New York or Los Angeles and sets up operations, does that mean he is in a conspiratorial relationship with the Bushies?

By Cheney's reasoning, it does.

Fortunately for Mr. Cheney, I know better than to hold him responsible for drug dealing in the US because a foreign drug dealer alips past immigration and sets himself up in an American city.

Unfortunately for Mr. Cheney, I know a bad argument when I hear one. And one does not need to have read the latest Senate Intelligence Committee report to recognize a bad argument.