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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
From radio today
Vice Pres. CHENEY:
"... But it's very important that people understand these two differences. What The New York Times did today was outrageous. They do a lot of outrageous things but the headline, Panel Find Qaida-Iraq Tie. The press wants to run out and say there's a fundamental split here now between what the president said and what the commission said. Jim Thompson is a member of the commission who's since been on the air. I saw him with my own eyes. And there's no conflict. What they were addressing was whether or not they were involved in 9/11. And there they found no evidence to support that proposition. They did not address the broader question of a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida in other areas, in other ways...."
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Right. Because if there's one person in contemporary American politics who's not wearing ideological blinders when he looks at the world, it's Dick Cheney.
"Last Sept. 14, on Meet the Press, Cheney said that a U.S. success in Iraq will mean 'that we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11.'"* Being a fair man, and careful to be accurate, surely Cheney has retracted that mistake, right?
* Kaplan's piece in Slate, today.
