V.P. Has a Case of Foot in Mouth

Vice President Cheney appeared on Limbaugh's radio show and repeated hisallegation that al-Qaeda was operating in Iraq "before we ever launched thewar, uner the direction of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi"

"This is al-Qaeda operating in Iraq," Cheney told Limbaugh'slisteners about Zarqawi, who he said had "led the charge for Iraq."Cheney cited the alleged history to illustrate his argument that withdrawingU.S. forces from Iraq would "play right into the hands of al-Qaeda."

The only problem for the VP is he said this on the same day that the Pentagon's reportdiscounted al-Qaeda ties to Iraq.

TheWashington Post reported:

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman CarlM. Levin (D-Mich.), who requested the report's declassification, said in awritten statement that the complete text demonstrates more fully why theinspector general concluded that a key Pentagon office -- run bythen-Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith -- had inappropriately writtenintelligence assessments before the March 2003 invasion alleging connectionsbetween al-Qaeda and Iraq that the U.S. intelligence consensus disputed.

EitherCheney doesn't realize this information is available to the public, he is lyingor he doesn't read the news. It really is amazing how the misinformation fromthe administration is still alive and well. 

Comments

[George]

What's so pathetic is the all out struggle for 5 years now to link Iraq with terrorism. Even O'Reilly will try to bring up EQ Kahn's ties into Baghdad. It's such a bunch of bullshit. Bottom line is that 15 of the 19 terrorists on 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia and almost no one knows this. Can you imagine if even one of them were from Iraq? EVEN ONE! Can you imagine if one of those guys had an uncle who had a friend whose grandparents lived in Iraq? Cheney and his head of PR, Bill O'Reilly, would be all over it.