Cheney continues to lie his way out of the White House – Tom Diehl (Guest Post)

In an interview with ABC News, Vice President Dick Cheney said:

“As I look at the intelligence with respect to Iraq, what they got wrong was that there weren’t any stockpiles. What they found was that Saddam Hussein still had the capability to produce weapons of mass destruction. He had the technology, he had the people, he had the basic feed stock.”

Using Cheney’s rationale, we should have invaded Canada, Brazil, the European Union, Japan, China, Russia, and most other industrialized nations. With the no-fly zones, Saddam Hussein had no means to deliver any weapons that could harm the United States. We’ve spent 900 billion dollars occupying a country that was no threat to us and have emboldened our enemies and inspired thousands of Jihadists to join the movement to destroy civilized society and wreak havoc on the world’s economy.

On the flip side, the Bush Administration ignored the warnings of Osama bin Laden; and then obligingly fell into his trap, straining our military capability; causing a spike in oil prices that bin Laden knew would come from a protracted fight in the Middle East, further enriching people who finance al-Qaeda.

Now, what was so important that we had to elect George W. Bush and Dick Cheney twice?

January 20, 2009 cannot come soon enough.

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