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.
He strongly defended the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq, however, citing Hussein's previous decisions to support and provide "safe harbor" to terrorists.
Cheney, in an appearance at the National Press Club, said he is intent on speaking out in defense of the Bush administration's national security record because "a clear understanding of policies that worked (in protecting the United States) is essential."
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."
He also reiterated his call for President Barack Obama to declassify documents detailing the results of so-called "enhanced interrogations" of high-value detainees.
Since Obama has already released memos detailing the interrogation methods, Cheney argued, it is important to share the results of those interrogations with the public as well.
On May 14, the CIA rejected the former vice president's request to declassify the documents. CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano, in a written statement, said the two documents are the subject of pending lawsuits and cannot therefore be declassified.
Cheney argued Monday that the memos previously released were also the subject of ongoing lawsuits. He said Obama can release the additional documents with "the stroke of a pen."
Cheney previously gave a full-throated defense of the Bush administration's "enhanced" interrogations of al Qaeda prisoners during an appearance at the conservative American Enterprise Institute on May 21.
He has argued that the interrogations saved the lives of "thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands." He called the techniques the Bush administration approved "legal, essential, justified, successful, and the right thing to do."
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That is not what he was saying during the run up to war. Liar!
criminal!
A disgusting individual with nothing to offer. Isn't there a young, sharp, honest Republican out there somewhere ? Please, step up.
Wow, he finally admits there is no link between the now deceased President of Iraq and the 9-11 attacks? For years, you could not convince this loon otherwise. Cheney, you are attempting revisionist history here and if you now believe there were no links, does this mean we can have you testify in a court of law for war crime proceedings since the falsehood you stated for so long was one of the reasons of the Iraq war?
Cheney, I'd love to waterboard you. You are a lying sac of pus.
A little late on the uptake, aren't we Richard?? This has been said for over four years now...
Now Cheney you finally said something that I can buy. Being an old 28 year veteran of the U.S. Army during the period of Desert Storm, Nam. I could find no reasonable grounds for WPM. But I also knew that sooner or later we would have to take them down. Only the way I see it is we should have wholeheartedly went into Afghanistan with the intententions of taking Osam Bin Laden the on to Iran after that Iraq in theat order. Toss palestine in the mix and you could have had soup. But instead now it is too late for a complete victory in a war that is facing. america get ready for it is coming. if you don't have the sotmach for it leave. that means all you across the border people who does not intend or will not fight for america
is this guy crazy or what – who cares about Bush and especially Cheney – he continues to be delutional thinking he is the opposition government.!
I hope Dick gets his wish and all documents are released. I believe that no creditable intelligence was gained from the illegal interrogation techniques and Dick will, once again, look like a fool.
The more Cheney goes on TV, the more people are going to distrust him. How dare he sit there and smugly say there was no link, when he pushed the very same lie countless times to get us into Iraq? I'd rather see him answer these questions from a witness stand, and I think lots of us feel the same way.
I was called an America-hating terrorist sympathizer by Dick Cheney's supporters for saying on March 30, 2003 what Dick Cheney said on June 1, 2009. Life is funny that way.
We can't even stop pirates, so how do we stop terrorist, and is there a difference? The approach by the BUSH administration was faltered from the beginning and now people like Cheney try to defend it. Why didn't we hear this from Cheney then, why now, seems a little late?
Hey DICK. Go back to your undisclosed hiding place and shut up. Stop defending the defenseless policies of the administration you were a member of. You DICK should be sent to GITMO to rot and to be regularly waterboarded.
It was not worth the death's of American soldiers to engage in Dick's war. A truly repulsive person.
Heard all these lies by Cheney over the past 8 years with arrogance when he refused to justify anything because he didn't feel he owe the country any explanation. Why isn't anyone looking into his past statements and call him on them instead of allowing him to ramble on in an attempt to change his legacy. Cheney had more than 8 years of opportunity to speak to the American people with respect but no he chose arrogance over that. Enough said Dick Cheney.
Can we somehow get this face out of our lives
Who cares what Dick Cheney thinks any more? Seriously!! Look at the mess he and his band of merry men left behind. Does this look like evidence that he knows what he is talking about, or can tell the truth.
CNN, you are looking more and more like Fox every day. I am growing very disappointed in the "Survivor" -reality-TV type of reporting that you do. It is annoying and it NOT news.
So what was all that crap about we are invading because "he has direct ties to Al Qaeda"? A knowing lie?
They invaded to prevent Saddam from creating a "safe harbor" for terrorist? Really? Well, gee, sir, then it sure would have helped IF YOU HAD HAD A PLAN!
Let's see, where in the world can a budding terrorist get a great hands on education on how to blow up Americans? I know! The "Iraq School of Terrorism", founded by the Bush administration when they invaded without a clue or a long term plan. Thanks, pal, thanks a lot for eradicating a "safe haven for terrorists" and creating their most effective training ground. That's just the kind of bull-headed uninformed cowboy crap leadership we don't ever want to have to endure again.
So Saddam wasn't involved? Isn't this the first admission? Doesn't this put the lie to anything this man says? Why doesn't CNN do its job and point out the ongoing and consistent inconsistencies this man utters? Do your job as journalists CNN.
After using illegal methods to establish a link between al-Qaida and Iraq, Dick finally admits there was no link. Over 4000 American troops killed, along with tens of thousands of civilians, for no apparent reason. What a horrendous legacy Bush and Cheney have left us.
Let;s give Scott Roeder the address of Dick Cheney!!!!
Maybe 'cuz YOU did it?
boy this guy is self exploding!!! He just admited THERe was NO reason to go to WAR.. OMG!!!! FReakin people WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Cheney is so very wrong and out of touch with the realities of torture. Redefining something that has long been classified as torture does not change what it is and that is torture.
Also, Guantanamo is not on American soil. That land belongs to Cuba and is only leased by the US for its use as a military base.
If it is not safe and unacceptable to house those detainees true American soil there is something wrong with that picture.
Perhaps, Cheney can open up his land to house these guys if he thinks his administration is so right and perfect in everything they have done over the past eight years.
Big deal. This is exactly what Cheney has been saying all along. What's the story?
Blah blah terrorist threat – Blah blah traitorous unpatriotic blah blah we got it right, the Obama administration blah blah
Cheney is an old dog that doesn't want to consider any new tricks, and the truth is just OFF THE TABLE.
There's no reason to believe Cheney, even when he's telling the truth. Get your information from a credible source, like other humans.
What's the deal? The link was supposed to be about Carter going off on Obama not this. Come on CNN let's see what the story is, if there really is a story given the media's propensity to fabricate something out of nothing.
Taliban mind set if you don't agree with then keep them hostage or kill them. Interesting. you have said it all who you are Mr Cheney the today's christian
I could go for eight more years of silence from this guy...
The only reason to invade Iraq was Saddam was a bad man. There are a hell of a lot of bad men out there, and Cheney is one of them.
I must be losing my mind...either that or Cheney is losing his...my apology, he already lost it....No Link between Saddam and 9/11...that is PREPOSTEROUS...was that not the primary driver for invading Iraq..that they supported terrorists and had weapons of mass destruction and would put those WMDs in the hands of the terrorists and said terrorists would use them against us, and so on and so on, and so on....i'm starting to wonder what these guys were smoking when they were in the white house
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.
He strongly defended the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq,
however, citing Hussein's previous decisions to support and
provide "safe harbor" to terrorists.
Man who speak with foked tongue, often swallow own woods! (and shoot peepo)
Gee, Saddam had no connection to 9/11 AND had no WMD... good thing we invaded Iraq. The whole Bush administration should be tried in The Hague at the war criminal tribunal.
Just go away. For 8 years we had no clue who the heck you were no we can not get you off of the airwaves. Go AWAY!
The arguement was never made that Saddam was linked to 9/11. The argument was that Saddam was linked to Al Quaeda. Remember Bush saying that high ranking Saddam officials met with high rank Al Quaeda members, and that Al Quaeda had a base in Iraq? When America did not buy that, and it was debunked to the point that war would not be supported, only then did the argument that Saddam had WMDs was made and we went to war.
Why is there no more investigative reporting anymore? It is all he said, she said at this moment, history plays no role in our journalism anymore.
Cheney needs to crawl back into his bunker and disappear. What happened is over and done with. Can't change history no matter how much you talk about it. Move forward, Dick. Quit living in the past.
So many of us just wish that Cheney would shut up, now and forever. The man clearly does not get that the nation profoundly rejected his policies in the last election.
The very idea of starting a "pre-emptive" war has to be one of the most dangerous and misguided foreign policy blunders in American history. You do not start unprovoked wars without creating mind-boggling international repercussions. The terrorists who attacked us were in Afghanistan and Pakistan, not Iraq, and that is where we should have been pursuing them all along.
The damage that Cheney and Bush and all of the neocons have done to our country will take a long time to overcome; the very least those two could do is go play golf and stay off television please !!!!
Mr. Cheney..Please! Please! Just shut up. Why now do you have so much to say that is so negative when in past years you kept yourself hidden away doing God know what! You are no longer revelant in making the decisions of my country. Please just go away!!!!!
"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.
BUT....
He strongly defended the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq,
however, citing Hussein's previous decisions to support and
provide "safe harbor" to terrorists. "
WHAT?!?!
How does this make ANY sense?
WHEN did Saddam provide "safe harbor to terrorists"?, He considered those that wanted HIS downfall to be terrorists, many of which DID have connections to Islamic Extremists,...so WHY on earth would he harbor any of these individuals?
Amusing isn't it, that ....... now........ trillions of dollars later...... thousands of lives later....... there was "no connection between 9/11 & Saddam!"
WHY didn't DICK tell the truth 8 years ago?
...call for President Barack Obama to declassify... Whats the difference. If it was illegal and worked it is still a crime. If it was not illegal then he has not problem. Frankly I would like it better if he said we broke the law to solve a problem. Then at least you can say the man is aware that there is a problem. Americans would stand with him then.
Cheney must be really desperate! It can only be desperation that has caused him 8 years later to admit that there's never been a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda!
What? I think Dick has finally lost his sick mind. Can we please play the clip of him on the Sunday talk shows leading up to the misguided invasion of Iraq? I am sure I remember him linking 9/11 to Iraq.
Thank you.
Cheney's opinion is way less than that of the 911 comision.
Exactly how does he get off saying his policies worked, when we were attacked under his administration?
He still defends going to war because he cashed in with all of the Halliburton contracts. No vice president should profit from sending our children to war!!
"He strongly defended the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq,
however, citing Hussein's previous decisions to support and
provide "safe harbor" to terrorists."
Please!! How many other countries could we have potentially invaded for being a "safe harbor" to terrorist??!! The GOP just labeled the bad guys with the term "Evil Doers" and justified it all in the name of AMERICA, APPLE PIE & GOD. There are many other countries with dictators that have committed many worse acts.. CHINA. Oh but there not too evil because they let us borrow money... Hello!!!
Joan of Arc – Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain
Awesome album. Look it up.
Dick Cheney: Bastard of the Century – starring Queen Latifa as Dick Cheney.
Talk about thinking in 'black and white'; the 'only other option is to kill them'. Really Cheney? That's all your years of government work under 'thousands' of previous leaders has gotten you? You are a fool and a pawn of the corporate world that you've gotten rich off of. Most of these adventures lead straight to your holdings in Haliburton and you have no shame and you keep promoting them. The media need to pull this clown from the stage. And they need to pull his daughter down too, who is prepping for a political career based on no experience at all, but to keep the family money train rolling.
OK, Tell me again WHY we went into Iraq? First, there where no WMDs and now Cheney acknowledges that the Bush administration KNEW there was no link between Sadam and the events of 9/11. So the past administration involved us in a war that has destroyed the economy, destroyed the world's view of us a the most moral of nation's, and valiant American service men and women continue to be killed and maimed every day. Why is not one charging Bush and Cheney with treason?
Chenny just doesn't seem to understand. This isn't an argument of whether info was gained from torture, I'm sure info was gained, some useful, some not. Most interrogators that I've heard from claim toture is a less effective way of gaining information than the way we've been doing it for decades.
The question is, is it "ok" to resort to base tactics we have condemed in the past simply because we were sucker punched by an enemy?
And if its "ok", then what is next? How low must we sink? Should we shrug off those things we hold dear? Should we become our enemy to defeat our enemy?
I think Dick needs to realize that his time is over and many of us wish his time had never come.
Why doesn't Cheney...mr. five time deferment.....go move to that wonderful facility.
How much longer do we have to listen to this buffonn, liar, cheat, and above all....a miserable excuse for a human being
Invading Iraq was the right thing to do. They denied the access to UN weapons inspectors they promised, harbored terrorists, and were killing and torturing their Kurdish citizens.
What's with this guy? Isn't his 15 minutes of SHAME over with already Doesn't this blow the Bush / Cheney claim that the war in Iraq was a war on TERROR???? What a bag of wind, can't even keep his own lies straight.
Rich. Cheney should be charged with war crimes.
We've seen more evidence that Cheney was involved in the 9/11 attacks that Saddam Hussein. Who rigged the buildings to implode and why did Building 7 at the WTC fall when it wasn't even hit? Cheney is as guilty as they come and the more he talks the more the lies become evident...or evidence.
There is a huge volume of video showing Dick Cheney saying just the opposite about the link between Saddam and al Qaeda. For him to say he has NEVER thought there was a link is just one example of how it is hard to beleive the words coming out of his mouth.
Dick Cheney has said that water boarding allege terrorist 'was the right thing to do' He is basically saying that water boarding is a morrally right and just action and American value. I thought is was suppose truth, justice and the American way.
Oh, look! Cheney's lips are moving! That means he must be lying again!
Let me get this straight. Cheney's been saying for years that Iraq was responsible for 9/11 and is on record numerous times as having said that. Now he says that Iraq wasn't directly responsible for the attacks but did provide "safe harbor" to the terrorists. The facts contradicted his claims then and they continue to contradict his latest claims. There is no other way to say it: Cheney is a bald faced liar. For anyone who can remember back this far, Cheney is the Joe Isuzu of politicians.
As for the documents Cheney is calling upon President Obama to declassify, Senator Levin reviewed them and says they do not corroborate Cheney's claims in any way. Cheney needs to go slither back under the rock he slithered out from him and spare us any more of his contemptuous lies.
Until we can see the still-unavailable documents we don't have all the facts in front of us. Passing judgement on cherry-picked data is a flawed idea. Get it all out and then we can see 1) how effective the techniques were, 2) how many people were interrogated this way, 3) what happened to those interrogated, 4) what kind of information we obtained, 5) how that information was used and whether it saved lives, and 6) who, in our government, knew or and approved/allowed this to happen. Then we can judge who, if anyone should be held responsible. Anything less is just a kangaroo court, more representative of a banana republic than the United States.
Wow...just wow. I guess you've made your big bucks through Halliburton at the expense of killing innocent people. That says it ALL.
Yet you went and invaded his country riding the wave of outrage and anger from 9-11.
You piece of GARBAGE!!
It took him 8 years to figure this out? and when would he go away?
"We don't operate that way"????? What way DID we operate?! Unlawful, unethical, immoral, inhumane.....the list is endless!
Cheney is a WAR CRIMINAL! Plain & Simple.
Give me a break!
Let me see if I got this straight: we went to war with Iraq because of 9/11 yet Cheney does not believe there was any link between Saddam and that fateful day yet going to war was the right thing to do? Now who can argue with that logic!
Why are we also harboring criminals like King George W. Bush, Tricky Dicky Cheney, and the other Keystone Cops who got our country into a bind Obama is trying to resolve?
Enough already, why can't they just fade away?
Or better yet sent them off to Spain on an all expense vacation trip, if Spain would be willing to host them.
Meanwhile, North Korea DOES has weapons of mass destruction, makes sure everyone knows it, and off the hook....why exactly? No oil? No big fat contracts for your Halliburton buddies? What an arrogant, self-serving jerk.
I'll bet the Spanish Inquisition thought their methods were pretty "effective" –and therefore justified - too.
As the world turns, Guiding Light, General Hospital, Cheney on State of the Union. You get teh point.
Good heavens – a perfect example of a former politician talking out of both sides of his mouth...
I've said it before...Mr. Cheney:
Don't go away mad...just go away...
Why is Dick Cheney NOT in GITMO? If it's such a good place, he should be there to taste the bitter sweet.
Why doesn't Cheney just tell people when "thousands and hundreds of thousands" of lives were saved? If these momentous events were stopped there is no way he would need these memoes to jog his memory. He also overlooks that it was America who armed Saddham Hussein and supported them in the Iraq/Iran war.
When will he apologize and accept responsibility for falsely stating the case for invading Iraq and leaving Afghanistan to the Taliban? Where was his voice when his own administration was building a case that Hussein was harbouring Al Queda?
No responsibility for the thousands of American and Iraqi lives lost, of creating greater numbers of "terrorists, no action in the Middle East peace talks, no discussion of the fraud and corruption in no bid contracts...just once I would like to see a journalist with a spine interview this man.
Cheney is one of those people who has no life and just can't retire and leave things to next generation.
Why is anyone listening to a man that would not serve his country during the Vietnam war?
Mississippi Mike
they killed the kurdish citizens 20 yrs ago you didnt care then. he killed them with weapons of mass destruction we gave them! they let the UN inspectors in. and we didnt go in based on any of that!! we went in because of 9/11 he had no connection with and nuclear weapons he didnt have! this isnt 4th grade it is war and you cant CHANGE the reason for the war afterwards!! HELLO!?!?
so we attacked Hussein because we could. Wow! Let's do Canada!
Only a pity the Cheney won't be hang in the Bagdad square like Sadam was hanged by the neck until dead. This guy is nothing but a low life criminal.
Pretty lame apology – when's he going to mention he got thousands of people killed with his imaginary WMDs and the al-Qaeda connection? Lying, sick weirdo. He has no idea what real people are all about. I'd like to see him arrested and investigated thoroughly, and former Vice-president Bush ought to be charged as well.
Well, now he tells us! Back in 2004 he was busy telling all of us we were idiots if we didn't see, and I am quoting him directly here from an interview on CNBC's Capital Report..."There clearly was a relationship. It's been testified to. The evidence is overwhelming. It goes back to the early '90s. It involves a whole series of contacts, high-level contacts with Osama bin Laden and Iraqi intelligence officials."
He is such a filthy liar! We should send him to Gitmo!
Sounds like they put Cheney on some new meds, and he's finally starting to wake up from his delusional fairytale. We'll know that he's more fully come out of his fog when he asks who was president from 2001-2009 and upon hearing the answer, responds "You've got to be sh-tting me!!!"
All of you defending this vile man, who ran a secretive "shadow government", can thank both Bush & Cheney for Obama's presidency. Don't forget to write thank you notes to McCain for picking Palin and to Palin for scaring us with her inability to speak coherent sentences.
We reached the bottom of the barrel with the last administration and can only go up.
That was the bases going to war with Iraq. Remember that Ol' fear factor, the mushroom cloud over the midwest. Wow... Cheney you are a War criminal, just like Nixon was when he invading Cambodia.
If this was a Democrat I would say the same thing. So I am not nitpicking. Cheney is still stirring fear in the people. Do you think that the Intel is sleeping? I think not.
First, Cheney lied about September 11th, then he lied about weapons of mass destruction. He led the charge to invade Iraq. What are we to believe when he said his torture tactics saved thousands maybe hundreds of thousands of lives? What is most disgraceful is his daughter has now picked up the same banner. Give it a rest! Stop the lies!
Cheney looks evil!!!
With all the Cheny flip-flops why isn't he being called before Congress to get his lies and mistatements "under oarth" so the presecutions can begin.
I, for one, am dissappointed in Congress and the news media for not pushing this matter further. The lives of our soldiers and America's credibility is on the line, yet Congress and the media is treating this like an edisode of Inside Edition.
WAKE UP people and demand JUSTICE!!!
Cheney is so confused. He forgets that they Invaded Iraq because of W.M.D. The terrorists were based out of Afganistan and we all knew that. You are a liar and a war profiteer. 75% of the American people have been victimized by your crooked Administration and we deserve the right to see you get investigated and procecuted for war crimes. Over 100,000 innocent Iraqs and near 5000 U.S troops died. So by what you say, you invaded Iraq for the harbouring terrorists. Am I correct? SO we should bomb your house because you are a terrorist. LETS GO!!!
People may not agree with Cheney, but at least we knew that he was going to strive to protect us. Obama is lowering our protection and running this country into the ground domestically and internationally.
Obama may end up being Carter II.
When this man is going to disappear?
Thanks Captain DUH!
You liberals are IDIOTS!!
Seriously – you've been SO brainwashed by Michael Moore and the ranting loons on the left ... you ACTUALLY believe Bush/Cheney thought Saddam was directly tied to 9/11.
Saddam was a madman who used chemical weapons on his own people. He was widely thought to have more WMDs and was seeking nuclear technology. Factoring in Saddam's DECADE of toying with UN inspectors and refusal to cooperate..... we took him out.
Dear lord! Pravda is right... you ARE sheeple!
Criminal slime.
Dick Cheney is bold faced manipulater. He's one crazy idiot.
We're lucky that Cheney and Bush didn't start World War III. Two twits on a stick.
Bush put us in Iraq for a personal vendetta and now obama is taking us down the road to being a socialistic welfare state to serve himself and his political backers.
There's a good reason why people like Mike live in Mississippi: it and Oklahoma are "bastions" of the old rightwing, a repository of morons and low people who gravitated to the [R] party. That any modern-day idiot would stand up and actually defend the likes of Cheney is a strong sign of mental or genetic desease.
Classic. Tell one little tiny bit of truth to give more credence to the over-abundance of lies.
What evidence has been seen about 9/ll? Your administration, Mr. Cheney, did its very best to block any real investigation. Now we have conspiracy theories, and we're less safe because the truth is not known.
It's almost as if Cheney is BEGGING or DARING) the Obama administration to do something about the lies he has perpetuated. Why doesn't Cheney make his case while speaking abroad in Europe? hmmmmmm......
What I detest most in Cheney's personality is his arrogance and condescension–as if we dumb Americans have no clue and don't pay attention. How wrong he is.
He is clearly senile! Doesn't he know he is officially on record saying the exact opposite about Saddam and 9/11?!?!
no link...you got to be kidding me..
"citing Hussein's previous decisions to support and provide "safe harbor" to terrorists."
...which always made me wonder why the Bush Administration never covered Belfast in White Phosphorous. The policy should have clearly stated, "we will wage war upon, at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars, any nation who has terrorists in it, whether or not they pose a threat to the United States, as long as it has lots of oil in it."
Funny. That is not what he or Bush said when they were stating their case for war.
"...young, sharp, honest Republican..."
Now that is an oxymoron if ever I saw one.
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Bush and Cheney both need to be brought up on war crimes. The United States has to make this right with the rest of the world. These two clowns need to be brought to justice!!
@ Samual B mindlessly says,
"Cheney's been saying for years that Iraq was responsible for 9/11 and is on record numerous times as having said that."
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Show us ONE time Cheney said, "Saddam was responsible for 9/11."
Give us the Source and Date of the article.
FACT IS – you can't. Never did the Bush administration suggest Saddam was responsible for 9/11 – but you're too much of a brain-dead liberal to do your own thinking.
Dick Cheney sure loves to play GOD.
Ah, Mr. Five Deferments/Armchair Warmonger nonsensically spouts off again.
El Diablo
But I thought thats why he and Bush said we Need to Invade Iraq because of Saddams Link to Bin Laden and WMDS What a Piece of Garbage you are Dick!
Cheney for president! Get this Obama idiot out of the WH.
Hahahahaha! I can hardly wait to see the clips of Cheney insinuating just such a link. This must be Cheney's lame attempt at gaining credibility with the reasonable public.
As for the "we don't operate that way", that's just another Cheney lie. We don't bu HE does.
Can someone please tell the GOP to find a new spokesperson already? We know he's helping the Dems by being on the air all the time, but weren't the last 8 years of misery enough? By the way, someone might want to tell him the Republicans got hammered in the last election becuase of him and his genius views.....just a thought.
Cheney looks like the devil with the smirk of a snake.
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. If this is the case; Then Bush and Cheney should be held on War crimes. They told us all that we needed to go to war beacuse they had this evidendence, now he says he never saw any. The Press(becasue of your lack of reporting leading up to the war) and all those who aided Bush by giving him to authority for this war needs to apologize to all the families who have suffered because of this war.
He could have saved the lives of 4.301 American soldiers by NOT Invading Iraq.
OHHHHHH? OKK! now he decides to tell us the truth????
hey Cheney.......we are not stupid like you............ WE KNEW THAT SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING you moron twisted mouth!
By the way, YOU murder Saddam for nothing then eh!!!!!!!!!
Cheney thinks he's God.
Let's see...Cheney worked in the Nixon administration, Sec of Defense for Daddy Bush, then VP. Hmmm...seems Saddam was simply unfinished business leftover from Daddy Bush and Cheney, then Cheney and GW decided to take care of it. This arrogance never ceases to amaze me.
Rewrite history much? Your legacy is beyond repair. Back to your undisclosed location, criminal!
WOW....
CNN posts a picture of Cheney and you O'bots and liberal lemmings come running to spew hate.
Meanwhile, Obama has nationalized the largest US car company, US banks, and insurance companies.
Obama fired the CEO of a private corporation. He listens politiely to Latin American dictators as they trash our country, only to return and begin spending like a socialist dictator himself.
Russian News PRAVDA – is the ONLY media outlet to accurately report the USA fast becoming USSA! What are the US media outlets doing? Looking for another puff-peice on Michelle Obama and her $24,000 date-night with Barry.
Hang the Dick by the head for treason against the United States of America!
Gee, that doesn't sound at all like the Dick from years past. He might think he can restate himself and we'll all forget what he actually said years ago, but YouTube never forgets.
If you must defend Bush (although I can't figure out for the life o me why anyone would want to) and his role in the Iraq war, fine. He is a moron and was a stooge. The real evil brains behind the death of American morality were Rove and Cheney. Obama should stop trying to shield them. There must be a full investigation and Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld and the others who wittingly and baselessly led us into the Iraq debacle must be charged with treason. Let the American people decide their fate. God knows, Cheney (via Halliburton) has made enough blood money over the past nearly nine years to hire a good team of lawyers for himself and all of his conspirators.
Hey ray ray...
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/18/cheney.iraq.al.qaeda/
Monday, June 14, 2004 – Cheney said there was a long-standing agreement between Iraq and al-Qaeda. Look it up.
Its really big of Dick to come out and admit that there was no link, no matter how hard he tried to manufacture one. The problem I have is that he didnt admit this until it was far too late to mean anything. Nice and empty gesture.
"legal, essential, justified, successful, and the right thing to do."
Taking away freedoms is never the right thing to do.
Torture is never the right thing to do.
Lying/misleading is never the right thing to do.
Pushing legistlation that allows you to legally do these things is not only not the right thing to do it cemented your place in history as possibly one of the most corrupt, ignorant, brainwashed, self serving, egomaniacle facade of administrations in American history.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions Mr. Cheney and you're one hell of a brick layer.
The united states is a democracy and you need to start respecting other peoples opinions and rights and the document that allows them to have those opinions and rights.
Cheney says there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11, and yet he implied there WAS a connection during a number of campaign speeches in 2004. Was he just trying to shake a little more money out of the party faithful?
Can't wait for the Daily Show to pull up all of the tapes of him saying just the opposite during the campaign to sell the American people on this stupid war. Has anyone informed him that we are now in the twenty-first century, and everything he has ever said in public is still available with just a click of a mouse?
Dick Cheney, go hunting with yourself !!!
If the memos proved Cheney was wrong then the Obama administration would have released them. If Cheney is right and important information was obtained from the waterboarding that saved American lives then that is the debate we should have. Would we use aggressive techniques to save American lives? That is what Isreal does, Russian does and frankly what the Clinton administration did under the Rendition program (except the "torture" was sublet out to other countries).
It is an important debate and discussion that we need to have. I'm not sure that there is one right answer. Bush kept us safe and I'd tend to give him the benefit of the doubt.
I'm shocked, really. The ignorance of the above writers is beyond my estimate of the pubic's stupidity. What's next, public lynchings
ray ray June 1st, 2009 3:25 pm ET
@ Samual B mindlessly says,
"Cheney's been saying for years that Iraq was responsible for 9/11 and is on record numerous times as having said that."
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Show us ONE time Cheney said, "Saddam was responsible for 9/11."
Give us the Source and Date of the article.
FACT IS – you can't. Never did the Bush administration suggest Saddam was responsible for 9/11 – but you're too much of a brain-dead liberal to do your own thinking.
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On Meet the Press with Tim Russert in 2002, he said an official from Saddam's regime met with Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers in Prague. Of course that was never confirmed nor proven, but he did state it as fact on national television. Also he stated this as fact after the CIA and State Department analysts could not confirm nor find evidence for this to be true, but hey, that's how Dick works – no facts needed.
Put this war criminal on the stand and let's hear his dirty, lying story on how he has kept us safe the last 8 years. This attack happened on his watch and he has the nerve to think that we should be thankful to him and bush. What a joke he is now his story is different about why we went into Iraq. This man is sick and these new shows need to keep him and his stupid daughter off the air.
Regarding waterboarding...If the memos proved Cheney was wrong then the Obama administration would have released them. If Cheney is right and important information was obtained from the waterboarding that saved American lives then that is the debate we should have. Would we use aggressive techniques to save American lives? That is what Isreal does, Russian does and frankly what the Clinton administration did under the Rendition program (except the "torture" was sublet out to other countries).
It is an important debate and discussion that we need to have. I'm not sure that there is one right answer. Bush kept us safe and I'd tend to give him the benefit of the doubt.
I was a life long republican up until the 2000 election. It didnt take a genius to figure out the bush administration was full of s3!t even back then.
Since that fateful day that they took power and established themselves as one of the worst and most catastrophic administrations the US has ever had, they have polarized America and pitted us against each other...and that was their goal all along.
Divide and conquer, although its odd that a leadership should want to do that to its own country. Just how deep does the rabbit hole go when it comes to the evil and corrupt motives of the bush administration and its leader dick cheney.
Even still, when his reign of death and destruction seemed to finally be over, he comes back from the dead and continues to slink poison into the minds of his simple and weak minded followers the republican party.
This guy just keeps laughing at Americans every day. Incroyable!
The current defense Secretary, which I may remind you Mr. Cheney was appointed by your boss even says that the facility needs to be closed. The facility may be good, but it's a taint on America's image. Those were Sec. Gates words.
If the memos proved Cheney was wrong then the Obama administration would have released them. If Cheney is right and important information was obtained from the waterboarding that saved American lives then that is the debate we should have. Would we use aggressive techniques to save American lives? That is what Isreal does, Russian does and frankly what the Clinton administration did under the Rendition program (except the "torture" was sublet out to other countries).
It is an important debate and discussion that we need to have. I'm not sure that there is one right answer. Bush kept us safe and I'd tend to give him the benefit of the doubt. Lets debate the issue rather than attack each other!
I can not remember the exact quote for am sure I heard from those lips... Cheney trying to justify the attack of Iraq saying because of 9/11
I can not believe that CNN or any other news network would give Cheney all this media attention-he is nothing but a low-down, lying, seething snake! Cheney does not deserve the light of day-and I am also sick of his lying, arrogant daughter. They both need to go back to that "rock" that they slithered from under.
Arithmetic,
I still think you are a leftist bent on trashing american values, but I must sadly part with the former administration completely. I thought the Iraq war a fool's venture, but still believed that they were part of a larger conspiracy against the US, so the gamble was potentially worthwhile. I hammered the left on their demagoguery when it wasn't clear that there was outright falsehood but it is clear to me now that Cheney lied. And for that, I feel betrayed.
I still think Obama and you are wrong for the country, and I am ready to fight you tooth and nail for every inch of american soil. But I can no longer defend anything about our misadventure in Iraq.
Too easy.....
So, if Cheney is now saying that Saddam was NOT in cahoots with al Qaeda (exactly the opposite of what he's been saying for 6 years now) then WHY did we have go to war in Iraq???
Can he not hear himself?
I am sure that he has not "seen" any such evidence, since there was none, but that is not what they were feeding us on the runup to the war. He just admitted that everything they were telling us was a lie.
@ Obama Victim
Russian News PRAVDA – is the ONLY media outlet to accurately report the USA fast becoming USSA! What are the US media outlets doing? Looking for another puff-peice on Michelle Obama and her $24,000 date-night with Barry.
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You are one jealous sick puppie. You got to much free time on your hands. Get a job and get a life.
nothing but FLIP FLOP
Allison June 1st, 2009 3:21 pm ET
We're lucky that Cheney and Bush didn't start World War III. Two twits on a stick.
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Don't be so relieved yet. At the start of the Iraqi invastion in 2003, North Korea kicked out UN inspectors and withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. They were taking advantage of the fact the U.S. was so focused on Iraq and becoming bogged down in a war. This was a response to Bush cutting off fuel shipments as was the agreement between U.S. and N. Korea (we supply fuel, they disarm their nuclear weapons program). Now look at them today – test firing long range nuclear weapons. Thanks Bush and Cheney.
God Bless Dick Cheney. You cannot rewrite history which is what is being tried daily. Obama could nuke Iraan and it would be lovefest here from all the Cheney haters at CNN. Hypocrisy has no end. Keeps talking Cheney – your the only one that makes sense..
@ Steph,
I read the article... and NOT ONCE was Dick Cheney cited as saying "Saddam is responsible for 9/11".
Cheney said "Al Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam's regime".
That is NOT the same thing as "Saddam was directly involved with 9/11".
Why can't you liberals discern the difference between "DIRECTLY INVOLVED" and a sympathetic regime?
Uh, didn't we kind of know this already? Is Cheney cracking up?
Stupid is as stupid does folks.
And I am not talking about the VP
Oh...wait a minute! So now we are changing stories? This than confirms the Bush Administration was lying to the public and congress in their justification for war with Iraq. Where are all the conservative nut jobs that were out there calling us moderates "un-american" and cowards for daring to question the authority of our President? This is huge and if any President, regardless of political affliation, leads our country into an unjust war they should be tried in a court of law and imprisioned.
If there's no link, what the he!! did we start a war with Iraq for, Mr. Dick?
ray ray June 1st, 2009 3:25 pm ET
Show us ONE time Cheney said, "Saddam was responsible for 9/11."
Give us the Source and Date of the article.
FACT IS – you can't. Never did the Bush administration suggest Saddam was responsible for 9/11 – but you're too much of a brain-dead liberal to do your own thinking.
You have the attention span of a goldfish.
Turn on Fox News between December of 2001 and March of 2003 and you'll have all you need. Cheney said it, Rumsfeld said it, and they got all their proxies to say it and you to believe it.
I would also swear on a stack of Bibles that you said at some point after 9/11 and before the 2006 election that Saddam Hussein was connected to 9/11 like all the good little Nazis in this country did.
So what was the *Real* reason for invading Iraq?
You liberals crack me up. The only better way to get your blood to boil is a picture of Cheney and Rush being interviewed together by Newt Gingrich.
First, Neither Bush nor Cheney ever said that Hussein was involved in the 9/11 attacks. I challenge any of you liberals (Sniffit...c'mon now) to go find a quote where they said Saddam was involved. TROY in NJ and ANGIE in PA – you are wrong. While we may have gone to war over questionable WMDs, we did not go to war over in Iraq over Saddam and 9/11.
Second, we were not involved in the execution of Saddam Hussein. BEACHGIRL – you are wrong. Saddam was executed by his own countrymen after standing trial in Iraq for atrocities against Iraqi's. Get your facts straight.
You people make this way too easy.
Cheney is a criminal who is trying to hide behind the US Constitution now...wait asec...he already used it to toilet paper a long time ago.
Russian News PRAVDA – is the ONLY media outlet to accurately report the USA fast becoming USSA! What are the US media outlets doing? Looking for another puff-peice on Michelle Obama and her $24,000 date-night with Barry.
Show us the article or shut up. This meme has been circulating for days and I have YET to see the article, but plenty of right wing bluster mentioning it. Is this like those fake Republican contributor Chrysler dealerships that got shuttered?
shoulden't he been in jail? why he is been allow to give interview to this major network and start yupping about how far him and a vice president bush ruine this great nation, dick ,your hand are stain with more then 5000 ,young american blood, shame on you.
@ S Miami, FL says,
On Meet the Press with Tim Russert in 2002, he said an official from Saddam's regime met with Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers in Prague.
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If you want to fault the "source" – it wasn't Dick Cheney. It was the Czech Interior Minister Stanislav Gross. May 22, 2002:
Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Czech Interior Minister Stanislav Gross shocked the world by saying: "We can confirm now that during his trip to the Czech Republic" in April 2001 (his second such trip there), Sept. 11 terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta "did have a contact with an officer of the Iraqi intelligence, Mr. Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al Ani."
What day is it? Must be Cheney Monday on CNN and the rest of the cable. OK, let me get this straight. Cheney claimed in his speech two weeks ago that there was a connection between Iraq and 9-11. Today, he's saying there wasn't.
Ray Ray – because that is not what Cheney said during his run up to war. You may have forgotten but I remember him clearing stating this as a fact when even the President was saying otherwise.
He's a bold faced liar and he's not worth listening to. Go away Mr. Cheney!!! And tell your daughter to shut up too!!!
Come on Dick haven't you been proof wrong.
Jon in Cal
"You liberals are IDIOTS!!
Seriously – you've been SO brainwashed by Michael Moore and the ranting loons on the left … you ACTUALLY believe Bush/Cheney thought Saddam was directly tied to 9/11. "
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Well brainiac, maybe it was Cheney himself saying so. When he said ""pretty well confirmed" that Mohamed Atta, the man held responsible for masterminding the Sept. 11 hijackings, had met with a senior Iraqi intelligence official in April 2000, an allegation congressional investigators later dismissed. "
So was Cheney "brainwashed" by Moore too? Or are you just a total and complete Kool ade drinking fool trying to re write the history you didn't bother to get right when it happened. Why is it that the dumber the right winguts supporter is, the less informed they are and the ones repeating easily exposed or already exposed lies, the more likely they think they are smarter than everyone else? You should not be calling anyone else an idiot.
I would not believe Dick Cheney if he told me the sky was blue.
Ray ray, if you don't live there already, you need to consider moving to Mississippi or Oklahoma. You need to bury yourself as deeply as possible in Dumbf–kistan. You rightwing neo-tards wish to drag the rest of us back into the Dark Ages, and you almost succeeded with 8 years of your abject Bush/Cheney/[R] failure. You sore-loser drama queens of the rightwing underbelly of this nation better move on, or get stepped on like the bugs you are.
After this confession now I really hope Prs. Obama changes his mind and prosecute all of them!
@ Arithmetic is Liberal says,
"Turn on Fox News between December of 2001 and March of 2003 and you'll have all you need. Cheney said it, Rumsfeld said it, and they got all their proxies to say it and you to believe it."
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Again – you can't give ONE instance where Cheney or anyone in the Bush administration said SADDAM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 9/11!
You have only innuendo and faulty memory.
Ken in NC,
Please stop with the standard Obama defense (no reasoning, just emotional schrill).
Be objective in your views of the world and you'll begin to agree with those you denounce in your ignorance (then again, you may only be 12).
I don't understand why Cheney won't just leak the information. It's clear to me that the Cheney's are referring to a document that they prepared themselves and placed it in the archive to support their claim. When others review the document, they do not find the information that Cheney and his daughter claim is stored at the archive. I can imagine that they are beside themselves, because the actual document that Cheney took with him when he left was replaced with the original document and not the DOCTORED one that they prepared. In any case, there is no way to show that other interrogation techniques were not as effective.
Isn't there a young, sharp, honest Republican out there somewhere ?
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Aaron Schock has GREAT abs (g).
omg...America WAKEUP HE SAID " SADAMM had no LINK with 911Terriorst. WOW!!!!! Powerful stuff!
what about the soldiers who went there thinking these lies, having them come home, without limbs, and those that we will never see again. Mr. Chenney is an evil human being that does not derseve to be heard anymore, and Please take your little sidekick daughter with you. Both Not worth listening to anymore! America WAKEUP!
Obama Victim – it amazes me how now we are listening to Russia, yet when it doesn't fit your agenda they are not worthy of your trust. Typical Republican.
Cheney hedges on the link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda, as if the evidence was not clear! Cheney allows for the possibility that there could have been a link, just that he hasn't seen evidence of it. Just like Saddam could have had WMD's.....
Why didn't Cheney tell America there was no link prior to asking America to support his war against Iraq? Cheney lied about being greeted as liberators, about WMD's, about using Iraq oil revenue for reconstruction. Prior to the US invasion, Iraq had nothing to do with Al-Qaeda.
I like Cheney. Unfortunately, he invokes so much emotion from the left that only Obama benefits. As long as the lemmings rail against Cheney, they won't realize the true danger that now resides in the White House.
The last time we had a president as incompetent as Obama was....well, there has never been on as incompetent as Barry O.
Lets dig up Cheney's remarks prior to and after the invasion of Iraq, all of them, where Iraq was not involved with terroists to where Iraq was involved with terrorist and compare what he said then, and his new tune today. Who is resposinble for the lives lost in Iraq, lives that did not need to be lost in a war that was a war of choice not a war of necessesity.
For critics, if you want to fight wars that are not needed, you enlist and we can give you a front row seat. Wars are not games to be entered into lightly, nor are they wars of convience. Wars have a terrible cost all the way around and are a result of some diplomates failure, or in the case of Iraq, some arrogant draft dodger.
Why does the press continue to give credence to this senile old man. He hasn't had a new thought or idea in over ten years.
As much as you dumbocrats like to re-write history the fact is that Cheney never said that Barack Hussein....ooops, I mean Saddam Hussein(I always get those two mixed up) had nothing to do with the terrorist attack on 9/11. What they said was that the U.S. would go after the terrorists and any regime that harbors terrorists.....that's what Saddam was involved in.
And yes, he's making a lawyerly distinction here regarding the actual attack. But this argument and his language was carefully used for years to direct people to that conclusion, or so close to it that it was easy for them to take that small step to it. He is a smart a shrewd man.
I think he is bringing this up now becasue of the recent reports coming out that the "enhanced" techniques were applied with the specific aim of getting the detainees to declare a link between them and Saddam. If he can convince people that the link was never an issue, then the hope is these new allegations will be seen as baseless.
Cheney you was "King of The GOP", and Jr was the pup-it on the "WH Pup-It Show". 3 yr and you was my VP, NOW tell the what you did or JAIL!
These posts are pathetic. Like little leaguers calling the umpire names because a call didn't go their way, then all of their friends at school join in to bad-mouth the ump because all of the 'cool kids' are saying it. When in reality, the ump called it like he saw it without malicious intent.
Such tolerance from the tolerant ones, loads of threats from the peacelovers. Get real.
nom, at least you admit what they were up to. Now take a good look at a lot of the other stuff they told you, including "boo hoo Obama's a socialist who wants to shut down car companies."
Obama's a Chicago lawyer, for fork sake; how many socialist lawyers have you ever heard of? He's a rich guy who doesn't have a lot of business experience, but you just don't go down the road to law school if you are a way-left pinko. You go into sociology, or public administration, or a hundred other things.
FOX leads you guys around by the ring in your noses, while in unison and on command you moo out the word 'sheeple.' Perhaps you should, um, ruminate about who's really a herd animal; donkeys, or elephants?
Jon in CA – YOU are the IDIOT lemming – defending the two biggest war criminals in history. Too bad you are a spinless coward else you might have been a casualty in Iraq.
How sad this man is. He changes his story constantly. First lie told, Irag bombed because of WMD. These WMD were never found. Then Bush and COMPANY decided to torture the detainees trying to make them say they had something to do with 911. He claims b/c of the torture they were able to get additional information that helped Bush and Company stop other incidents in America. This CAN NOT be proved because ONE CAN NOT PROVE A NEGATIVE. This man is so full of hatred for mankind he comes across as being mentally ill. This man is obsessed, with demons. GOD HELP HIM. Fifteen of the of the people who were involved in 911 were from Saudi Arabia.
Wow, this guy just cannot stop talking can he. He admits there was no link to Iraq, Saddam Hussein and the September 11, 2001, attacks but defends invading Iraq and ignoring Al Queda in Afghanistan. Did Dicky Boy ever support investigating why 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudia Arabia or had passports from Saudia Arabia? Bin Laden is from Saudia Arabia, theres a link Dick! He is such a patriot and has SO MUCH to say now, does he have anything to say about that?
In his CNBC interview, Cheney went a bit further. Asked if Iraq was involved in 9/11, he said, "We don't know."
"What the commission says is they can't find evidence of that," he said. "We had one report, which is a famous report on the Czech intelligence service, and we've never been able to confirm or to knock it down."
The uncorroborated Czech report, which has been widely disputed, alleged that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague before the attacks.
Asked if he knows information that the 9/11 commission does not know, Cheney replied, "Probably."
You know, my party uses this tactic all the time. Sounds familiar doesn't it? Sounds just like all my fellow party members who speculate that America is less safe now that Obama has taken over doesn't it?
You know what they say about assumption.
Cheney had many years to make the contents of these classified documents public. Now he knows that he and his former administration could potentially be charged with war crimes. So he has to go out and defend the torture policy with a utilitarian argument.
Frankly, Bush and Cheney and their administration have asked so many others to sacrifice so much that I think they should just stand up and be men and take the consequences for breaking US and International law. If what they did was really for the "greater good" of the US but it was illegal they should be happy to serve out the rest of their lives in prison. Tens of thousands of others have had worse happen to them because of Bush and Cheney's policies.
@CNN:
Why can people call President Obama a "mooly" but you won't print that Cheney is a lying sack of $#it?!
"The Office of Special Plans was created in order to find evidence of what Wolfowitz and his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, believed to be true—that Saddam Hussein had close ties to Al Qaeda, and that Iraq had an enormous arsenal of chemical, biological, and possibly even nuclear weapons (WMD) that threatened the region and, potentially, the United States. "
Obama victim, you have to be joking.
The decisions Dick Cheney made, and the lies he told, caused the lives of thousands of young men and women, kids 18, 19, 20 years old with their whole lives ahead of the them. These young people never got a chance to live their dreams, like you and me. Their families will forever live with the pain of having lost them to a senseless war. The kids of those soldiers who lost their lives will never get to share a moment with their mothers and fathers, just like you and your kids. Yet, you're concern is that Obama fired a CEO of a car company. WOW! (that, my friend truly deserves a wow!)
Go back and read all the lies Cheney and the others were telling us before the Iraq war. It hasn't been that long
You're pathetic and a joke!
Wow, he finally admits there is no link between the now deceased President of Iraq and the 9-11 attacks? Yea, he can say that now with ease becasue he think he is not going to be charged.
The Bush administration pursued a well thought out strategy of associating the two at virtually every opportunity. There was a reason why 70 percent of the American people believed that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11, and that is because the administration time after time put the two of them together in the same framework. Long after the CIA and the FBI had knocked down the story of Mohamed Atta meeting with an Iraqi agent in Prague, the vice president was peddling the story over and over again. And that's just one of many different instances of this kind of association. When the vice president says that he never said that they were connected or never involved in 9/11, he is technically correct but in a way that not even a trial lawyer would find serious.
Ray Ray- I am betting you are one of the 70%
want another ray ray...
"We did have reporting that was public, that came out shortly after the 9/11 attack, provided by the Czech government, suggesting there had been a meeting in Prague between Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker, and a man named al-Ani (Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani), who was an Iraqi intelligence official in Prague, at the embassy there, in April of '01, prior to the 9/11 attacks. It has never been - we've never been able to collect any more information on that. That was the one that possibly tied the two together to 9/11." – Transcript of Interview with Vice President Dick Cheney, Rocky Mountain News (1/9/2004)
Cheney flip flops faster then Michael Jackson.
What a NUT BALL! That is EXACTLY what he said and made everyone say in HIS adminstration to justify invading Iraq.
We already know you and bush LIED to us so that your company Haliburton could make billions. And there are actually morons (albeit very few who still call themselves republican. They, like you, have NO conscience.
Hey, "Obama Victim": I guess you must have been in a coma or something. The Great Recession that we are in results primarily from deregulation addicted Republicans and right-wingers like yourself. For your information the nationalizing of AIG, banks, and the auto companies was started under Bush. Nationalizing banks is what you must do when deregulation causes, for instance, the S&L crisis that happened under Bush I. It is the breathtaking stupidity of people like yourself that has caused many of our problems. You promote the right-wing politicians that have single-handedly grown the national debt from $1 trillion to $11 trillion. You might want to pay attention and let people with some intelligence and common sense lead the way
I wish this man would SHUT HIS MOUTH already.
I would like to waterboard the creep as well.
Liar!! Criminal!! I agree with Pr.Carter there should be a full investigation of this guy and he should be trialed at The Hague for war crime
He is a big liar and CNN should not allowed him as well as his stupide comment on CNN. put all 3 editos on trail, they all are liars andsend them to gauntanomo.
I love the way he said "I'd do it exactly the same again" -–
Hmmm he would? I thought the leader, the president, got to make the decision - did you all vote for Cheney in November 1999?
Hmmmmmmmm
The decisions Dick Cheney made, and the lies he told, caused the lives of thousands of young men and women, kids 18, 19, 20 years old with their whole lives ahead of the them. These young people never got a chance to live their dreams, like you and me. Their families will forever live with the pain of having lost them to a senseless war. The kids of those soldiers who lost their lives will never get to share a moment with their mothers and fathers, just like you and your kids. Yet, your concern is that Obama fired a CEO of a car company. WOW! (that, my friend truly deserves a wow!)
You're pathetic and a joke!
history repeats...
I applaud you for trying to invoke the truth. Unfortunately, it's a waste on people like mississippi mike. Most of these people have no clue, and is only interested in politics now because the president is a person of color. It would probably blow their mind if they knew that in the past our government supported and trained some of the exact same people we now call terrorists.
Proud Member..Party of No – you can try and spin his lie any way your twisted mind wants, you and America and the world all know he and bush LIED. Now stop your lying, have you no dignity? Guess not, your a republican.
Cheney makes the argument that he still supports going to war in Iraq. because they harbored terrorist and were in opposition to America. I cannot buy this argument because then we should be attacking so many other countries (I agree that we should attack the people who attacked us- Afghanistan). At some point you cannot attack everyone (example: the Roman empire) and must learn to get long with others under the rule or humanity. I agree that Cheney believes he is the leader of the opposition government ala Churchill, but unlike Churchill, Cheney does not respect democracy and would not mind seeing all democrats dead. The truth is we have a two party system that is not perfect and he must deal with the fact there are other opinions. I believe criticism is important but he has yet to enter the forum of reason and needs to leave. I am glad the democrats are dominating because then hopefully the conservatives will have a revolution and return to the core values that will help make a better society.
This is a HUGE contradiction from what was said back in 2002 when the Bush administration was trying to justify going to war with Irag. The worst part about this is the American people who somehow seem to have forgotten about this and actually believe the lying, twisted words that come out of this man's mouth. Dick Cheney should be locked up along with the terrorist since he is so into waterboarding, maybe he can get this turn next!
War criminal...
This is what happens when you treat a goon civilized. Former (thank God) VP Cheney, you and your people said that there was a connection. You should have been arrested the moment you made this statement. I'm sorry, but Pres. Bush had a shot at greatness, he had a 90% approval rating after 9/11, and it carried for quite some time because people wanted him to succeed. Crap like this just confirms why he and the administration lost support.
Astonishing.
That's right dickie:
Ka-ching, ka-ching goes your bank account with the death of the tens of thousands you used for your own greedy purposes. And now you sit there with that evil grin of yours and you equivocate as you see fit.
So many names I could call you (but CNN won't print), so little time.
To nom deplume esq..........you are the reason they have what americans call a domestic terrorist, and instead of apologizing your own naivity for attacking people for there opinions you sheeple feel betrayed....boo hoo. and repubs still wondering why the dems are soooo hatefull against the right. use your I.Q. Till now i haven't heard one apology from repubs for anything they have done in American history....but if a dem ever did something wrong, they need to apologize for everything and resign and crawl in a deep dark hole.
Anyone wonder why Cheney is frequently appearing in the spotlight? He can't get over the fact that his term is over! This guy gets a rush off of power. What a lot of Americans miss is that Cheney was the chief idea generator and decision maker in the white house. He endorsed presidential powers and took those decisions. Bush was merely a weak man without the intelligence.
Cheney needs to defend his policies cause he knows they were a failure. So he hides for 8 years and now comes out. I agree. Go back to hiding like bush did. You are a shame and a political failure. I also do agree that his administration need to be put on trial. People in powerful positions must be held accountable for their decisions.
People its not about republican or democrat. Its about have morally just people in seats of power. People that approve torture or think that starting up wars is a solution are not morally just.
Cheney is a complete horror show. He and his cronies are responsible for the senseless killing of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of INNOCENT Iraqis. Think of the thousands of kids without schools, medical facilities, and even MOTHERS and FATHERS. Think of the babies without hospitals and medicines. Lastly, think of the thousands of displaced citizens.
Cheney and Bush should never have a restless night for the rest of their lives because of their reckless behaviors. We now know that this was a war of choice, and not necessity. I am sorry to say but I wish the two of them rot in hell!
Proud Member..Party of No – you, sadly are insane and OBVIOUSLY a republican. So by your logic since the USA harbors terrorists too then other countries should bomb us? God your sick. I feel sorry for you.
Oh ho! So after 4,000+ American soldiers are killed and 10,000s of American soldiers are maimed, and 100,000s of Iraqis are murdered Cheney is NOW backtracking to save his own butt.
The IMPLICATION has always been from Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeldt et al that Saddam was linked to Al Queda and therefore responsible for 9/11. ALWAYS.
Otherwise, why have I had one nephew who recently returned from Iraq and one now fighting in Iraq ? For WMDs? Don't think that logic will fly anymore, Dick. It was 9/11 coupled with WMDs that got this country so worked up by Cheney prior to the invasion of Iraq. Or, as is apparent as each year progresses, we invaded Iraq for no particular reason.
If I were Bush, I would be very cautious now that Cheney has been unleashed.
@Matt "Cheney flip flops faster then Michael Jackson"
But I think Umbama's flip flop on releasing photos beat them both.
See how the Republicans do. First it is one thing and then it is another. We need to jail everyone that was part of this conspiracy. I can not believe that the base of the republican party still believes what these fools are saying.
"world conflict", "global war on terrorism". Yes there are big problems in the world, but Cheney's (bush) administration created problems for the long term. Future presidents will have to deal with future terrorist created by the Cheney-Bush tactics. Also they pegged the name "Global War On Terrorism". Which means they helped create it. No matter how bad it was before, they labeled it and created deep seated prejudices against the US. The real terms Cheney should use are "Bush-Cheney Conflicts" and "Bush's War On Terrorism". They were not wise, they were arrogant.
I'm still wondering why we invaded Iraq. Was it....
1. they had WMD's (oops. guess not!)
2. they were connected with 9/11 (oops, not that one!)
3. their dictator didn't like Bush's daddy
I'll go with number 3.
This idiot should be behind bar. If you don't have any where to keep him then kill him as he said. Thousands have died because of his lies just like Taliban leaders
Proud Member..Party of No June 1st, 2009 3:56 pm ET
As much as you dumbocrats like to re-write history the fact is that Cheney never said that Barack Hussein….ooops, I mean Saddam Hussein(I always get those two mixed up) had nothing to do with the terrorist attack on 9/11. What they said was that the U.S. would go after the terrorists and any regime that harbors terrorists…..that's what Saddam was involved in.
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In 2001 on Meet The Press Dick Cheney stated there was a link to Saddam and the 9/11 attack. I know because I was watching when he said it.
You can continue with the name calling like a 5 year old child but it does not change the fact that Cheney is and was a liar and he relies on sheep like you to believe him.
Of course there was no link – THEY NEVER SAID THERE WAS! Once again, Cheney laying it out there in plain speak. Too bad he didn't do more of it when he was in office.
Prosecution of this war criminal is the only answer. Send him to The Hague! This man is a liar and a traitor, take him away!
To the one or two rethuglicans defending cheyney's LIE, my question to you is why did we invade Iraq then???????
So let Cheney explain how Building 7 at the WTC fell even though it wasn't hit. Cheny has lied throughout and now, like all pathelogical liars, he's begun to contradict himself. Well, let him do it on the witness stand for al the world to see. He is, without a doubt, the worst criminal this country has ever seen.
So when did Cheney change his mind on the Saddam-9/11 connection? Or is he just finally admitting he never believed it in the first place?
Why are we listening to this treasonous criminal? What Bush and Cheney did was akin to MURDER. They should be charged with a count of Murder 1 for EVERY SINGLE LIFE LOST in Iraq.
Dick, you said Iraq attacked us on 9/11. You are a liar. Gitmo is good? No, Dick, torturing people is not good. Manufacturing enemies is not good. Trials rigged to convict are not good. Domestic spying is not good. 4000+ dead Americans is not good. Thousands of wounded veterans is not good. Tens of thousands Iraqi dead is not good-nor is it "progress" as stated by your boss. Americans buying what you have to sell (torture, war, fear)-not good.
Brian wrote: In 2001 on Meet The Press Dick Cheney stated there was a link to Saddam and the 9/11 attack. I know because I was watching when he said it.
You can continue with the name calling like a 5 year old child but it does not change the fact that Cheney is and was a liar and he relies on sheep like you to believe him.
Here's what he really said on Meet the Press, from the Boston Globe, 9/16/03:
But Cheney, on NBC's "Meet the Press," cited the report of the meeting as possible evidence of an Iraq-Al Qaeda link and said it was neither confirmed nor discredited, saying
: "We've never been able to develop any more of that yet, either in terms of confirming it or discrediting it. We just don't know."
If you want Cheney to shut up, formally charge him with war crimes. He will go onto hiding faster than he did on 9/11.
"Senator Carl Levin, Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, stated that "The bottom line is that intelligence relating to the Iraq-al-Qaeda relationship was manipulated by high-ranking officials in the Department of Defense to support the administration's decision to invade Iraq. The inspector general's report is a devastating condemnation of inappropriate activities in the DOD policy office that helped take this nation to war."
Why did we go to Iraq?
Whenever Dick gets through with his remorse tour, the fact of the matter is Osama Bin Laden has never been captured.
You might be a Republican if you didn't figure that out already. Bush clearly stated that we went to get Saddam because "He tried to kill my dad."
This man should rot in prison. GW Bush, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Richard Pearle, Scooter Libby, and all them lying scum bags should be in prison. All the repugnantcans in office today who lie, twist the truth, hammer Pelosi and all the trash they do should be thrown out of office.
Repugnantcans can seem to live without lying, twisting truth, discriminating against people, stoaking the fires of racial & sexual discrimination AND preferring environmental neglect for profits of big companies over our collective healthy future.
These liars – these scum bags, these soulless, calculating war criminals are the most disgusting type of people out there. They are no better than, nor do they hold any moral advantage over the likes of KSM or OBL.
Is there not a single person who blogs on this web site who knows that The Hague has no jurisdiction over Americans? Does anyone know there is no such thing as "international law"? There only exists laws that are ratified by Congress and signed into law. Has our education system so vastly failed us that not a single person on this site understands how the government works? Please tell me you all didn't vote. But .. of course you did. You voted for Obama. Sad.
Next time you call someone a "war criminal", I suggest looking up the definition, then looking up a valid law that was broken. Think a little.
to Proud member party of no
They did not find WMD or Terrorists. They lied. They are criminals and should be punished. They are all in a conspiracy. You are either stupid or just don't care that they sent innocent men and women to their deaths by lying. It was all about the oil. Once you finally admit to yourself that what they did was wrong you will feel better about yourself
And his wife has never written a pornographic book.
The faster President Obama sums up enough courage and asks AG Holder to arrest this evil man along with his gang of unethical lawyers from the Dept. of Justice, the better of this country will be.
But Obama's lack of courage in dealing with these criminals is what is emboldening this war criminal to come out and boast about war crimes, crimes against humanity and the willful killing and destruction of thousands of innocent lives of children in Iraq. Where is the break form the wretched Bush ways.
@ Mike in NC says,
"Jon in CA – YOU are the IDIOT lemming – defending the two biggest war criminals in history. Too bad you are a spinless coward else you might have been a casualty in Iraq.
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I guess it's the "in" thing to accuse, try, and convict people in the court of public opinion – without having evidence or cause for a REAL trial.
Funny wasn't it Nancy Pelosi who said it's "off the table"??
Two words for you mike: REAL COUNSELING.
Get some, dude.
hey Phoenix98,
Whatever pal! This guy a war criminal and you know it! Get your head out of the sand. Don't tell me Obama is now to blame for the war too. You see that's whats wrong with so called conservatives like you, you too stupid to admit or seek the truth anymore. Just go back to your hollier God Rush L. (loser).
Hitler had nothing to do with the attack of pearl harbor but we still went after him.
Can anyone site an example of anyone from the Bush admin claiming that sadam was responsible for 9/11?
To all those that want to know why we went in to Iraq, Do the words harboring terrorists mean anything to you?
For those same people. Why did we invade Europe in WWII? Any reason you name, the same reasons can be named for going to Iraq.
Pa Santigie....you are an idiot