CNN: Cheney blasts media on al Qaeda-Iraq link

[No Passaran]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday the evidence is "overwhelming" that al Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, and he said media reports suggesting that the the 9/11 commission has reached a contradictory conclusion were "irresponsible."

"There clearly was a relationship. It's been testified to. The evidence is overwhelming," Cheney said in an interview with CNBC's "Capitol Report."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/18/cheney.iraq.al.qaeda/

[loveable liberal]

1. al kayda arouses dick.

[mom cat]

17. Welcome to DU. Watch out. It's an addiction!

[gatlingforme]

19. Welcome to DU. It's alot of fun.... ENJOY.

[goforit]

52. Yes welcome..........

Thats the key to psychopathic behavior.....

their desire to be aroused.

Great pick up.

[wtmusic]

2. WAHHHHH!

They didn't say what we wanted them to! :cry:

[No Passaran]

5. this is funny

"The press, with all due respect, (is) often times lazy, often times simply reports what somebody else in the press said without doing their homework."

hahah it's funny this administration should even think about "homework". They sure did theirs when they claimed Iraq had WMDs.

[Beetwasher]

36. I Hope The Press IS LISTENING

These fuckers will stab you ALL in the back and throw you to the wolves at their earliest opportunity. It's time to take off the fucking gloves for real. Game over. You've given them the benefit of the doubt and covered for FAR too long and this is how they're treating you. Cheney's calling you out, take him up on it is my advice. Do exactly what he says you should do. Do your homework now and see where it leads. Do you really think Dick! wants that?

[Just Me]

48. When I watched him last night, his audacity made my head swim.

His intentional persistence in manipulation through fabrication is just plain evil conduct!!! This administration's actions blow me away!!!

The level of corruption is beyond anything I could have ever imagined witnessing. They have betrayed the American people and American values and the American form of government!!! In my view, they are total utter traitors!!!

[goforit]

53. And the 2 ironies are that they do it in broad daylight and that they

think no one is watching or knows a damn thing.

Dick?.....Take my advice. Do what the former Dick did....

RESIGN!!!!

[venus]

56. They don't CARE if we're watching. That's the scary part. n/t

[dusty64]

24. Yeah for once.

The media is largely responsible for pushing these lies supposedly without doing anything more than spouting WH propaganda. Now the regime is desperately ranting and lying blatantly daily and are not used to being called on it. I can't imagine President Kerry being allowed one little slip up without being slammed 24/7 by the corporate media machine, take note and observe the contrast in about six months.

[wtmusic]

44. I can envision a scenario

where media has had enough of covering for Bushco and turns on them. They might all end up in jail, where they belong.

[rooboy]

3. This guy shouldn't be impeached. He should be committed. n/t

[Journeyman]

4. Just close your eyes, dick. . .

tap your heels together and repeat after me, 'There's no place like Saddam and al Qaeda athome together.'

[Nlighten1]

6. So he is admitting someone perjured themselves?

[jeff30997]

7. The evidence is overwhelming?

Well prove it,Dicky!

[Protected]

8. I love our great echo-chamber media!

Sorry, Dick, we're smarter than this. (I hope...)

[oblivious]

9. I have this image of Bush, Cheney and Blair 10 years from now.

Each alone, avoided by all, slumped over the bar in a seedy drinking hole, stinking drunk, mumbling over and over: "There WERE WMDs, I tell ya. He WAS doin bizness with Osama, by God. Just you wait. The truth'll come out. Then they'll be sorry. They'll all be on their knees begging for my forgiveness. You'll see."

[iam]

38. In a sleazy drinking hole?

How about in Federal prison!

[oblivious]

50. Ha Ha. I should have said 'when they get out of prison'.

But ten years may be a bit short.

[dansolo]

54. Like Joseph McCarthy?

Isn't that how he ended up?

[jarab]

10. In the real world previous to now

the heading would say "media blast Cheney for...."
Everything is f**k'd up backwards!
...O...

[Josh]

11. This is good.

Maybe the media will turn on Cheney. They don't like being yelled at by people whose fortunes they can actually alter.

[Mike Niendorff]

12. The "Even Bigger Lie" strategy.

in action.


MDN

[Ripley]

29. You got it.

I heard the female Dem on 9/11 panel on NPR yesterday. She was asked about what Cheney has been saying...her answer was that that was mistaken according to the evidence the panel had. She basically said that's a lie.

So, if the non-partisan panel says Dick lied, where is his credibility ever again?

[Pale_Rider]

13. As General Corman in Apocalypse Now described ...

... Col Kurtz and is apt now to describe Cheney.

He's out there operating without any decent restraint, totally beyond the pale of any acceptable human conduct.

[saigon68]

20. Terminate with Extreme Prejudice

The CIA spook said

[mare]

14. I think they are hilarious

in a surreal kind of way. :D

Why do they keep on saying that? They KNOW it's been proven wrong and it's been for ages. I just really don't get it.
I watched the news on TV yesterday and when they came to the part about Bush saying these things about Al-Qaeda and Iraq the news announcer was actually grinning before they cut to the news feed. About George Bush. He said something to the extent that President Bush had something remarkably new to say, then smiled this broad grin and they cut to Bush announcing there was a link between al-Qaeda and Iraq.

When news announcers start laughing about the american President while being on air, you know there's just something wrong...

[FlemingsGhost]

15. When they start calling fouls, blame the refs ...

Nevermind it's a home game.

Pussy.

[Fridays Child]

16. Rumsfeld had a relationship with Saddam Hussein in the '80s...

...so does that mean that Saddam may have collaborated with Rumsfeld in the war on terror?

[Pachamama]

18. Hee hee....that's a good one...n/t

[Blue Gardener]

21. Then why does the 9/11 commission say otherwise?

Why doesn't Cheney show this "proof" to back up his claims?

[Tansy_Gold]

30. Well, maybe he DID show his proof. . . .

. . . . when he and booshie "testified" to the commission, but of course there's no transcript or recording to provide proof of what he said. . . .

assholes.

[Canuckistanian]

46. Good point

Maybe the commission found Chimpy and Crashcart so incredible that they dismissed their testimony.
Remember, the commission had access to all secret intelligence, including what the two stooges knew, yet they STILL came up with the conclusion that there was no link.

[dbt]

22. Once again, the regime kicks its loyal lapdogs.

Watch 'em roll over and ask for more, worthless, yipping little curs.

:argh:
dbt

[0007]

23. cheney makes Spiro Agnew look like a sick whodre

cheney is crazy like a fox.

[ewagner]

31. Confussion to your enemies.........

That's what's going on here.....

As long as Bush/Cheney can create confusion and keep the partisans arguing with each other, the more support they can count on.

This is the sickest administration I've ever seen. I don't use the term "evil" much but in this case I think it applies.

[blindpig]

45. you said it

"crazy as a fox" There is method to this madness, me thinks. The rumors that he will not be on the ticket may well be true. He will be the scapegoat for all. Bu$h will get a "kinder, friendlier" running mate(America's mayor?). Cheney has accomplished his mission and will go home to count his ducats. HS Thompson predicted this a few months ago and he is a serious bookmaker.

[liveoaktx]

25. If he really knows things that he didn't tell the commission, he's

responsible for the conclusion the 911 commish came to, since he, hand in hand with *, had a cozy fireside chat with them.

Nope, govt again in damage control bringing out the barking dogs. They can hardly say that the Iraq war was a mistake, so instead "Are ya going believe ME or your Lying Eyes and Ears?"

[NJmaverick]

26. Cheney would know irresponsible

Wouldn't he? This guy is just short of Hitler on the evil scale! If Kerry was smart he would go after this guy big time in campaign adds. Remind people that Cheney would not allow bush to testify with out him there to control him. Then talk about all the evil things he has done. I think if people found out what this guy is like and how he is running the country, Kerry would be in in a cake walk.

[Jack Rabbit]

27. These creeps should put or shut up

If there's "overwhelming" evidence that al Qaida had a relationship with Saddam, where is it? With the WMDs?

I want to see it. I want to know what it is. "That information is classified" will be assumed to be a cop out. I'm sure these thugs used to play that game in the schoolyard.

[sidpleasant]

34. What he said

On NPR yesterday 911 Commission member Jamie Gorelick said that they sent the staff report about alleged Iraq - Al Queda ties to the White House weeks ago. She pointed out that if the White House disputed any of its conclusions they had plenty of time to provide facts to support their position. The White House had nothing to offer until the report came out Wednesday.

Bush and especially Cheney have painted themselves into a corner. If the evidence for an Iraq - Al Queda connection is so "overwhelming" then why wasn't it given to the 911 Commission? I hope Kerry bashes the hell out of Bush and Cheny for withholding evidence from the 911 Commission.

[Go Eagles]

28. contacts yes, relationship no

Dicky boy is the one who needs to do his homework. Yes there clearly were contacts based on opposition to the United States but those contacts did not materialize into a relationship because there was too much mutual distrust and conflict between the goals/ideology of Al Qaeda and Hussein's secular regime.

[Kinkistyle]

32. Reagan/Bush had ties with Al Qaeda leaders

Its a COLD, HARD FACT with OVERWHELMING MOUNTAINS OF EVIDENCE. Chew on that you evil sunuvabitch.

[UpInArms]

33. Newsday opinion: Cheney misleads when he suggests Iraq is linked to al-Qai

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpter183855209jun18,0,5995941.story?coll=ny-editorials-headlines

A key finding of the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks puts the final nail in the coffin of the already widely discredited notion once used by the Bush administration to justify the Iraq war - the purported link between Saddam Hussein and the attacks.

That connection has been definitively shown to be false. But the commission may have muddied the waters by reporting a pattern of meetings between al-Qaida and Iraqi figures starting in 1994. This must be put into some perspective.

In its most recent interim staff report, the panel found no evidence that Hussein and Osama bin Laden were connected or cooperated in any way in the planning or execution of the 9/11 attacks. On the contrary, the commission found that Hussein had flatly rejected efforts by the Sudanese government to put him in touch with bin Laden and his terror network.

This finding comes even as some key members of the Bush administration continue to argue that "ties" existed between the deposed Iraqi leader and the terror chief. So what's going on here? It depends on how you define "ties."

...more...

[Mika]

35. The evidence is "overwhelming" that W* fully served in Alabama

I mean.. they have a dental xray. What more do you need? ;-)

[pinniped]

37. Show us the evidence you sorry POS...

and not some BS "It's been testified to." whatever the fcuk that means. Testified by who, chalabli?

Earlier this week the a$$hole vp made stupid comments about the link and offered no evidence. Now the bunker-dwelling idiot offers some so-called evidence but it sounds just as stupid as he is.

Even more amazing are those stupid pukes ready to buy every ounce of crap spewing out of these a$$holes' pieholes. Disgusting.

[uptown ruler]

39. oh yeah.

cheney is certifiable...


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[barbaraann]

40. Here's the trick Cheney pulled in the interview:

When Gloria Borger asked him about the relationship between AQ and Saddam, he said (paraphrasing here) there wasn't enough time on the show to go into the details. Gloria said that there was enough time, but he ignored her. Cheney pulled out some papers, insinuating that in the papers was a lot of proof of the relationship between AQ and Saddam. He then mentioned the Sudan meeting and the (uncorroborated) Czech meeting and some other worthless stuff. I think Cheney mentioned the alleged Czech meeting about SIX times during the interview.

At one point, Gloria Borger was staring, stunned, with her mouth open at the audacity of Cheney in continuing to repeat his parsed deception. The whole interview was bizarre.

[daleo]

57. McCarty redux

"I have here in my hand a list..."

[Kadie]

41. Uh oh

Now you did it dick. Your criticism will definitely get the media busy now. Hopefully they will start "doing their homework" and get busy investigating you and your crooked friends.

[Triana]

42. It's not the MEDIA who is lying (this time)

It's Tricky Dick II. Poor smirking little scumbag, the media didn't diaper his lies this time...

[CrispyQ]

43. "It's been testified to." ??? By who?

You & the chimp, while not under oath?

Like that means anything you lying SOBs!

[HuckleB]

47. MUST. REPEAT. BIG LIE. MUST. REPEAT. BIG LIE. MUST. REPEAT. BIG LIE.

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- Dick Cheney

[daa]

49. LIAR BU$H said this

This lying administration is spinning out of control.

Statement by President George W. Bush
"The regime . . . has aided, trained and harbored terrorists, including operatives of al Qaeda. The danger is clear: using chemical, biological or, one day, nuclear weapons, obtained with the help of Iraq, the terrorists could fulfill their stated ambitions and kill thousands or hundreds of thousands of innocent people in our country, or any other."

Source: President Says Saddam Hussein Must Leave Iraq Within 48 Hours, White House (3/17/2003).

[goforit]

51. Houston? We've gotta problem, there is one loose screw out in space

What a broken record.

[Tight_rope]

55. Houston here's you loud and clear...Time to nuke the fuckers! n/t

[mgizo]

58. "CNN: Cheney blasts media on al Qaeda-Iraq link"

I suppose Putin, who has been no friend of George W Bush, was lying today when he revealed Iraq was planning attacks in the United States?

[Catherine Vincent]

60. Of course he was lying.

Any idiot can see that.

[mgizo]

61. Ha

That's the best you can come up with? What does Putin gain by lying cat girl?

[No Passaran]

63. right

This from a guy who planted a bomb in Moscow against his own people in order to invade Chechnya.

Putin's nothing but a whore in Russian Mafia's pockets.

[Hippo_Tron]

59. Well Dick, when you put it that way...

You're still wrong.

[sampsonblk]

62. Hey Dick...

if you don't want to be disputed in the press, then stop lying!

[LumitraC]

64. jeez dick, maybe you shouldnt say it so often

... the media might not pick it up one of the million times youve either stated or insinuated so.

He reminds me of the 1967 batman movie's Penguin.

[salin]

65. corresponding headline I'd love to see - Media shrugs: ignores

Cheney's tantrum.

[No Passaran]

66. lunatic

enough said about this