Saturday, January 24, 2004

Vice President Dick Cheney is getting out there, now that Bush-Cheney '04 is well-underway. And his public appearances are being noticed, if only for his insistence on repeating assertions about the war in Iraq that have already been debunked. The Los Angeles Times reports that just Thursday, Cheney made two whoppers, declaring "there was 'overwhelming evidence' that Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Al Qaeda and that two trailers discovered after the war were proof of Iraq's biological weapons programs."

Other Bush administration officials have abandoned these arguments, but not Cheney. The Times reports: "Members of Congress and some in the intelligence community said Thursday that Cheney's comments could lead the public to believe there was collaboration between Iraq and Al Qaeda, and that that was not supported by the evidence."

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