Have you ever wondered what people are thinking when they say something? I mean, are their minds just a complete blank and they're pouring out words they have no control over?
Well, I'm sure plenty of people are wondering this same thing about Cheney. Regardless of whether or not you like Bush, Cheney is a whole new ball game.
...Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides "all confirmed" that Hussein's regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to a declassified Defense Department report released yesterday.
The declassified version of the report, by acting Inspector General Thomas F. Gimble, also contains new details about the intelligence community's prewar consensus that the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda figures had only limited contacts, and about its judgments that reports of deeper links were based on dubious or unconfirmed information. The report had been released in summary form in February...
You can read the entire article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/05/AR2007040502263.html?hpid=topnews
And now you might want to know what that article has to do with Cheney? The report that Hussein had no ties with Al Qaeda prior to the United States invasion of Iraq came out on the same day that Cheney was on the air with Rush Limbaugh repeating his allegations that they were working together:
"This is al-Qaeda operating in Iraq," Cheney told Limbaugh's listeners about Zarqawi, who he said had "led the charge for Iraq." Cheney cited the alleged history to illustrate his argument that withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq would "play right into the hands of al-Qaeda."
Oh to be a fly on the wall for that one... :)
