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Iraq Report Pokes Holes in Cheney’s Script

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Posted on Apr 6, 2007
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Exhibiting either extreme administrative loyalty or just plain denial, Vice President Dick Cheney reiterated that there was a definite link between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show Thursday—the same day a newly released Defense Department report cast further doubt on that connection.


Washington Post:

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 [Thursday].

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.

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By Ernest Canning, April 7, 2007 at 7:58 pm Link to this comment
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So why, you ask, does old “dead-eye” Dick insist on a Saddam/al Qaeda link in the face of such damning evidence?  The answer:  The VP is operating out of a very old play book.

“Propaganda had to be continuous and unvarying in its message.  It should never admit a glimmer of doubt in its own claims, or concede the tiniest element of right in the claims of the other side.”
        —Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf”

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By Ottomatic, April 7, 2007 at 10:02 am Link to this comment
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There’s one thing Goebbels should have added:  If you have enough control of the communication system,  i.e. if you have enough control of the media to the extent that your message dominates all other messages, they will believe you.

Our money driven media giants (and it not just Fox News) could care less about reporting the truth.  If it weren’t for the big advertising checks, who in their right mind would want to carry a hateful blowhard like Rush Limbaugh on their radio station?

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By Louise, April 6, 2007 at 9:51 pm Link to this comment
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“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
—Joseph Goebbels

In this case, it seems those who have come to believe the big lie are the ones who created it. I don’t think that’s quite what Goebbels had in mind.

Maybe we have been unfair to the multitudes of German people who were caught up in the Nazi horror. Maybe they didn’t believe the big lies either, but waited to long to do anything about it.

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By DennisD, April 6, 2007 at 9:12 pm Link to this comment
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Every member of Congress, and I mean every, if they haven’t completely sold their souls should be asking themselves why the hell these scumbags are still in office. Who are we saving impeachment for? If the lies, corruption and outright incompetence of this whole administration haven’t been enough to impeach them for, what the f**k qualifies?
I guess it really is just one big happy Boys & Girls Club on the Potomac. Washington D.C. World “Where nothing can be wrong, be wrong, be wrong”

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By Kol Klink, April 6, 2007 at 9:02 pm Link to this comment
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I long ago stopped believing anything that comes out of our current administration or the main stream media that reports what bushco says while failing to report more important and ‘real’ news.
For Cheney to appear on Linbaugh’s show is an indication of how desperate he is. BTW, does anyone out there believe that Bush has an approval rating in the mid 30% range? I dont. Olmert, the current head of Israel, has an approval rating of 3% and his debacle against Lebanon last summer was tiny compared to the mess that Bush has caused in Iraq. I think that the poll numbers that are being broadcast for Bush are just more bs lies.
If 35% of Americans still support bushco then they must be drinking some strange cool aid.
Impeach the rats!!!

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By blog dog, April 6, 2007 at 8:22 pm Link to this comment

Since it’s been proven beyond all doubt that al Queda is a CIA provocateur operation and also that Saddam was a CIA creation, the case could be made that their sins are in that they “ran off the reservation” so to speak. For how long and how well either were controlled is certainly “classified,” but then so are the details on JFK’s assassination, after all these years. Whole-hearted champions of “blow-back” and the legendary mythic-stature marksmanship par excellence of lone patsy Oswald or the top-gun piloting skills of the nineteen 911 patsies might readily dismiss the proposition herein as “tin-foil” territory (one of the common slurs), but if you actually believe that this regime of thugs lied about everything “except,” 911, then there’s a dirt-cheap parcel of “prime” beach front on the Florida Gulf Coast with your name written all over it, for a very good price, of course.

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By trantieungoc, April 6, 2007 at 5:25 pm Link to this comment
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All his life is a big hole not only on Iraq’s report.
Look at his face we remember the new dracula of our time. This kind of dracula never suck human blood but only chewing Halliburton’s huge checks.

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By might15, April 6, 2007 at 3:42 pm Link to this comment
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Check out this piece from Rawstory.com and it may be the real reason Cheney insists the ties were true. 

http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/50156

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By B, April 6, 2007 at 3:33 pm Link to this comment
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Impeach! Email your reps. It is the house that brings up articles of impeachment. So email your representative. They won’t do a damn thing unless we tell them to.

                  B

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By Ottomatic, April 6, 2007 at 2:28 pm Link to this comment
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Bush and Cheney both took oathes of office.
Lying under oath is perjury.
Perjury is a felony, which should be considered an impeachable offense.

Congress can look the other way, in which case Bush and Cheney will continue to do whatever they want, lie, and stick their middle fingers and both Congress and the American people.  Or they can do their constitutional duty and impeach Bush and Cheney for their criminal behavior.

Congress, Wake up!!!

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By vet240, April 6, 2007 at 2:03 pm Link to this comment
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This A-hole should have been in the bunker with Hitler. He could have served tea and crumpets while they waited for the German soldiers to route the Red Army!

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By Stephen Smoliar, April 6, 2007 at 1:40 pm Link to this comment

Then, of course, there was that other episode on Limbaugh’s show.  Cheney decided that this was the best forum on which he could sound off about Nancy Pelosi’s “bad behavior” (his words) in the Middle East (particularly Syria).  This was an ideal opportunity for him to display his total ignorance or (more likely) disdain for the concept of separation of powers.  Details (including a Reuters hyperlink) at:

http://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2007/04/domestic-pots-and-kettles.html

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By jeffrey, April 6, 2007 at 1:20 pm Link to this comment
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If Cheney were to act half credible why on earth would he be on limbaughs show,,only idiots and hate-mongers can get anything out of his radio program.well I guess I just answered my on question

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By Rodney, April 6, 2007 at 1:11 pm Link to this comment
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No reporter has yet to have the balls to challenge either Bush or Cheney when they keep repeating the lies about 9-11 Al-Queda and Saddam Hussiem. There was no connection.
There never was a connection, and the only reason terrorists are in Iraq is because Bush Invited them there when he said “Bring it on”. Iran would not be pursuing nuclear weapons if Saddam was still in power because he was the only one crazy enough to invade Iran to stop them. This war of choice has only benefited Iran, Halliburton and the Bush ego while screwing the military and the American taxpayer.

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By Sandy, April 6, 2007 at 1:10 pm Link to this comment
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Thanks for this reporting.  Excellent…as always.

And, re DICK CHENEY and his tangled web, all of you really MUST—no matter what you think of it—go read this post for today:

http://waynemadsenreport.com/

Thanks!  If even a smattering of it is true….

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By Steve Hammons, April 6, 2007 at 1:06 pm Link to this comment
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Did Cheney, Wolfowitz, Feith and the rest actually believe the erroneous “intelligence” information, or did they know all along it was fabricated?

Were these “mistakes” in intelligence gathering or “plans?”

Many such “mistakes” seem to have occurred in recent years. Food for thought in:

“‘Mistakes’ or ‘plans’ in Iraq, War on Terror?”

PopulistAmerica.com
February 12, 2007

http://www.populistamerica.com/mistakes_or_plans_in_iraq_war_on_terror

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By jeff gershoff, April 6, 2007 at 12:10 pm Link to this comment
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Why does this even still surprise us.  The liars Bush and Cheney and their crew have proven time and again that they have no qualms about fabricating, spinning, twisting and straining any information their sticky, bloody hands come upon, to meet their ends.  Their ends are clear: the USA is the only global power who deserves to control and influence world events.  Any notion of critical or competitive ideology will not be tolerated.  Dick Cheney is a lieing Dick and George Bush is a bloody bush.  The both of them really do need to be rode out of town on a rail for what they’ve done.  Impeachment is too damn good for them.

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