{"id":1938,"date":"2004-06-15T09:29:20","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T14:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1938.html"},"modified":"2004-06-15T09:29:20","modified_gmt":"2004-06-15T14:29:20","slug":"there-he-goes-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/there-he-goes-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"There he goes again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The non-existent connection between Saddam Hussein and al Queda is obviously Dick Cheney’s favorite lie — he keeps repeating it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that Saddam Hussein had “long-established ties” with al Qaida, an assertion that has been repeatedly challenged by some policy experts and lawmakers.<\/p>\n

The vice president offered no details backing up his claim of a link between Saddam and al Qaida.<\/p>\n

“He was a patron of terrorism,” Cheney said of Hussein during a speech before The James Madison Institute, a conservative think-tank based in Florida. “He had long established ties with al Qaida.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The man simply has no shame. It’s one thing to lie; it’s another thing to lie and get caught; it’s something altogether worse to continue to repeat the lie ad nauseum.<\/p>\n

Cheney was making the same argument in April<\/a> in a speech to troops in Alaska, in January<\/a> on NPR, and in September<\/a> on Meet the Press. He seems to sincerely believe that repeating an obvious falsehood<\/a> makes it more accurate. It’s breathtaking.<\/p>\n

And as Kos noted<\/a> last night, even Colin Powell, Bush’s Secretary of State, has said the claim is false<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell conceded Thursday that despite his assertions to the United Nations last year, he had no “smoking gun” proof of a link between the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and terrorists of Al Qaeda. <\/p>\n

“I have not seen smoking-gun, concrete evidence about the connection,” Mr. Powell said, in response to a question at a news conference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s no wonder so many Americans believe<\/a> Saddam Hussein was involved with 9\/11; their vice president keeps lying to them about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The non-existent connection between Saddam Hussein and al Queda is obviously Dick Cheney’s favorite lie — he keeps repeating it. Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that Saddam Hussein had “long-established ties” with al Qaida, an assertion that has been repeatedly challenged by some policy experts and lawmakers. The vice president offered no details backing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}