Cheney Again Links Saddam to Al Qaeda

[DrFunkenstein]

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday again linked former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with al Qaeda to defend invading Iraq in a week when U.S. deaths there passed the 1,000 mark.

At a town-hall style forum in the swing state of Ohio, Cheney described Saddam as a "man who provided safe harbor and sanctuary to terrorists for years" and a man who "provided safe harbor and sanctuary as well for al Qaeda."

The commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has said it had not discovered any evidence of a "collaborative" relationship" between the fallen Iraqi government and al Qaeda.

After the Sept. 11 attacks, Cheney became the most outspoken Bush administration official in making a direct link between al Qaeda's attack and Saddam's Iraq. In response to questions, President Bush later said the 9/11 attacks were not linked to Iraq but that there had been "numerous contacts" between Iraq and al Qaeda.

Cheney did not repeat his assertion, made on Tuesday, that America might "get hit again" by another terrorist attack if voters elected Sen. John Kerry, Bush's Democratic rival for president.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=6&u=/nm/campaign_cheney_dc

[umtalal]

1. the man is stuck. I think him being so senile just make the American public

concerned.

[DebJ]

2. oh, I'd love to see that hand come down, hard and swift...

[Lovecrafty]

3. Ironically, the US provided safe harbor and sanctuary for them as well!

So did Germany! The hijackers were in several western countries for months..plotting and watching air ports, making trial runs across the country, even taking flying lessons in Florida! So couldn't it be said that the US harbored the hijackers as well?!!

[DaveSZ]

5. Why did Kerry give credence to this lie the other day?

Hard to understand.

[cheshire]

4. But fails to remember good old Osama. Slight of hand clowns

[DrFunkenstein]

6. Who Is This Osama Cat?

[Old and In the Way]

7. Didn't seem to bother Dick back in '98 when Halliburton was

trading to the tune of $24MM in sales with Saddam/Iraq. And circumventing the embargo to do it, too.

Guess that makes Dick a terrorist supporter of Al Qaeda. When can we impeach him for treason?