The VP, Iraq, and OBL

The Democrats decided to start up one of their oldest tricks after the VP debate this past week. We were forced to again here about Cheney's "absurd" stance that Iraq did support terror networks including OBL. And we've had to hear about how Cheney has flip-flopped around about the issue, saying it one day and denying it the next. This is really frustrating to me, since a junior high student should be able to figure this out with little effort. But, for the sake of argument, I've decided to lay out exactly what Cheney has said and what has been said that he said. I hope that by the end of this little exercise, even those who impaired by stupidity will understand this simple issue.

What the Democrats say Cheney has said:

"There is a direct connection between Iraq and 9/11."

So there's only one problem in that statement. That problem is that the VP has never said this. So what has Dick Cheney said concerning Iraq and OBL?

"His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaida going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaida terrorists." - Cheney, 12/2/02

"His regime aids and protects terrorists, including members of al Qaida. He could decide secretly to provide weapons of mass destruction to terrorists for use against us." - Cheney, 1/30/03

"I think there's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between al Qaida and the Iraqi government." - Cheney, 1/22/04

"There's been enormous confusion over the Iraq and al-Qaida connection, Gloria. First of all, on the question of - of whether or not there was any kind of a relationship, there was a relationship. It's been testified to. The evidence is overwhelming. It goes back to the early '90s...There's clearly been a relationship." - Cheney, 6/17/04

"...there was a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaida that stretched back through most of the decade of the '90s, that it involved training, for example, on [biological weapons] and [chemical weapons], that Al Qaida sent personnel to Baghdad to get trained on the systems that are involved. The Iraqis providing bomb-making expertise and advice to the Al Qaida organization." - Cheney, 9/14/03

These are the quotes that you will find again and again and again and again on every Democratic website. Cheney has clearly said that he believes there to have been a relation between Iraq and OBL. There can be no doubt about this. Yet, all of these web-crawling hunters can't find one single quote from the VP saying that Iraq was responsible for 9/11. He's certainly implied that their harboring of terrorists made it possible. But that's hard to disagree with.

So, we have a VP who clearly sees a connection between terror and Saddam. Then, when reports come out showing that Saddam didn't have anything to do with 9/11 (Duh! It was the Zionist! Or maybe it was the CIA!), the liberals cry about how Cheney misled the nation into believing that Saddam had something to do with the attacks. Cheney promptly rejects such stupid claims and the left replies "See, he's lying! He said that Saddam and 9/11 are connected!" Meanwhile, the press sits with their thumbs up their butts and mindlessly quotes the lunatic garbage coming from the left.

So, let's recap. Cheney says that Iraq sponsored terrorism, makes no claim of 9/11 involvement. The left says that Cheney claims 9/11 involvement as reason to go to war against Iraq. Cheney argues that he did not say that Iraq was involved with 9/11 but instead was involved with OBL and his people. The left says that Cheney is lying now and attempts to use his own words against him only those words aren't there so they have nothing. They conclude that Cheney obviously believes what they say that he does, because they're always right. Therefore, Cheney did say that Iraq was directly responsible for 9/11 and believed it until the brave left make him recant of his evil ways. The press refuses to confront the issue, as usual, because they're too busy buying faked documents from a mentally imbalanced Texan (No, not the President!)

And there you go! Fodder for the campaign. You've gotta love an election year, especially one in which one side has realized just how sad and broken their agenda is.