Dick Cheney’s statement to Greta van Susteren that “On the question of whether or not Iraq was involved in 9/11, there was never any evidence to prove that” is being widely portrayed as an admission.
But it’s less an admission than a PR move. Cheney has spent the better part of the last seven years doing everything in his power to convince the American people of the very connection he now says there was “never any evidence” of.
In 2004, even after the 9/11 commission found “no credible evidence” of Iraqi involvement in 9/11, Cheney was still claiming the evidence that al Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq was “overwhelming.”
When he was asked in ’04 if Iraq was involved in 9/11, he said, “We don’t know.” Three years after the attack — and he still didn’t know? Even after they had tried every trick in the black book — including torture — to find a link?
And while Cheney’s gotten more careful with his words over the years, he’s never really stopped insinuating that there was a connection between 9/11 and the war in Iraq.
Indeed, as recently as two weeks ago in his big speech at the America Enterprise Institute, Cheney was still banging the drum about Saddam’s “known ties to Mideast terrorists” as part of his rationale for invading Iraq and using torture.
Cheney’s ongoing Forget Everything I Ever Told You Tour is historical revisionism at its most despicable. Source Article
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