Cheney: "There Was Never Any Evidence ... Iraq Was Involved In 9/11" (VIDEO)

In an interview with Fox News' Greta van Susteren, former Vice President Dick Cheney admitted that there is no evidence that Iraq was involved in the September 11th attacks.

"On the question of whether or not Iraq was involved in 9-11, there was never any evidence to prove that," he told the "On The Record" host in a joint interview with his daughter Liz. "There was "some reporting early on ... but that was never borne out," Cheney said. "George ... did say and did testify that there was an ongoing relationship between al-Qaeda and Iraq, but no proof that Iraq was involved in 9-11."

Asked in 2004 if Iraq was involved in the attacks, Cheney was less clear, telling CNBC, "We don't know." He criticized the "irresponsible" media for reporting that there were no links between al-Qaeda and Iraq. "There clearly was a relationship. It's been testified to. The evidence is overwhelming," Cheney said. In other interviews around that time, Cheney was similarly vague, suggesting that the link could exist. President Bush repeatedly encouraged a false connection between Iraq and the attacks, although he later claimed to have only said there was a "relationship" between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.

Liz Cheney complimented Obama's family, and said that she hoped he would "talk about democracy and I hope he'll also talk about women's rights" on his trip to Egypt. Asked if President Obama was "soft," Dick Cheney responded, "I can't say that. I think he's still learning."

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[Deja Peterson]

your getting sloppy dyck.

[freethinkergirl]

Bush should have tucked his D.I.C.K in many years ago.

[RRG64]

He`s become a liability to all of his illicit buddies as well.

[Berhanu1]

Clever...I love it...LMAO!­!!!!

[Yermammy]

OK, that's TWO WAR CRIMES Dick has admitted to now. Aggressive War (Crimes against Humanity) and Torture ( War Crime per our treaties).
When is the investigations going to happen again? Hmmmmmm?
We're WAITING, Mr. Holder.

[TremoluxMan]

So when did Cheney ever let the facts get in the way of a good lie?

[iceage7]

Can you imagine George Tennet was honored by bush with the congressional medal of honor..for job well done. Guess to shut him up incase tennett wrote a book or an expose. This is real sad. The cover ups just keep mounting. No one ever asked Chenney or bush why Tennet was honored with one of the most prestigious honors.

[westcoastsc]

What about him swimming drunk in a SA prince's pool about how he was sold out by the Israelis?

[JoeAmerican]

History books!!! There's your entry. Indeed an unjustified war based on false pretenses perpetrated by the Bush administration resulting in tens of thousands of deaths in our two countries and a weaking of American stature around the world.

[Tom Joad]

..there is, however, now conclusive evidence the VP lied to promote a w@r with Eraq. Can we arrest him now?

[Troyxx]

Sorry, you Americans have become far too complacent to really pursue justice for the Bush fiasco. In certain other, there would be mass demonstrations and it would not end until the culprits were dealth with. But not in America - the land of very complacent dummies. Pity!

[westcoastsc]

I know you are trying to provoke. We thought we made a convincing choice with Obama, but that might not be the case. Watch and see what happens. We want him bad. We need justice. Money, power, and information has been put in too few hands. Help us. Don't pity us. This is about education and our media is controlled.

[pjw5552]

This is interesting, since even as late as April 2007 Cheney when asked about the al-Qaida-Iraq connection and was asserting a connection and that al-Qaida was there long before the US arrived. What is also interesting is that Saddam Hussein was interrogated by the FBI and their standard methods of interrogation in 2005 and by the end of 2006 Hussein was executed. The FBI found Saddam disliked al-Qaida and wanted nothing to do with them. He had no weapons of mass destruction and why he refused to inform the West of this. Obviously, all irrelevant information as far as Cheney was concerned because he continued to assert a connection well into 2007, long after the Hussein interviews were complete.

This new admission seems to indicate Cheney knew the information they had was incomplete and sketchy at best and not justification for his constant public admonitions of a link between al Qaida and Iraq. This is a clear admission of his misleading the public at best and outright dishonesty with the American public at worst. Why I am not surprised, this is the first time I have heard Cheney admit he misled the American people about the information he had and/or outright lied to us.

[RRG64]

Cheney`s admission of an illegal war in Iraq means the Bush Administration should be prosecuted for every American soldiers death as a negligent homicide.

[dare i hope]

Right on.

[Berhanu1]

I agree....

[westcoastsc]

Why has Eric Holder not put him jail yet after all these admissions? Eric Holder needs to show us he needs to show us he means business or remove himself.

[dwright]

It is stunning the first time you realize it is all a sham isn't it? It feels like the earth shifts a little under your feet. I actually felt that way during Reagan's second term. I started studying politics then and felt something was deeply amiss in our government.

There were individuals that were speaking out, but the MSM stifled them or interviewed them very sporadically and very quickly and shuffled them off. Read, Paul O'Neill's book The Price of Loyalty, Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies and there was another I can't remember the name, but I loaned it out. Christie Todd Whitman It's My Party Too, Scott McClellan's, Also Cobra II.

To understand our corrupt media:
Watch the video Orwell Rolls In His Grave

Read: State of Confusion and The Assault on Reason

[felisa11]

former Vice President Dick Cheney admitted that there is no evidence that Iraq was involved in the September 11th attacks.

No $hit, sherlock

[PepperzMom]

It's time to "remind" gently those thugs who have the blood of so many, American as well as Iraqis and members of the coalition (of the deluded I must say).

Find the addresses of the current addresses of the offices of Shrub, Dy-ck-ster, Tenant, etc, and go to the website that RRG64 posted numerous pages back (here it is again. . . http://icasualties.org/Iraq/USDeaths.aspx ), print out the lists there (there are multiple pages of information re: Iraq and Afghanistan besides the death list), then flood the postal service with copies of the printed lists to those who deserve to be reminded of what they did.

It's 124 pages (or 62 two-sided pages) or Iraq alone, so postage would be around $4 or so. If sent by priority mail, using one of the envelopes you stuff until you can't stuff it anymore, is around $5.

Just a thought...

[RRG64]

I cannot believe it was 124 pages printed out....of unnecessary deaths in an illegal war.
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"Sean Askay, a Google engineer, released on Sunday a Google Earth layer, called Map the Fallen, that contains detailed information of more than 5,700 service members who died in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

This is an interactive tool that lets you see photos, learn about how each service member died, visit memorial Web sites with comments from friends and families, and explore the places they called home and where they died.

Askay has no military affiliation or background and developed the project on his personal time. He said on his Map the Fallen blog that he came up with the idea when he was still a student and ran across icasualties.org, a public database of soldiers who have died since the beginning of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10248763-1.html

[probo]

Thanks for that amazing link. Some things are too sad for words.

[PepperzMom]

Yep, 124 pages. I did a print preview and that's what came up, using 1/4" margins.

Thanks for the link on the "where" of the lost. I have too many high school and college classmates, who lost family, kids, grandkids and spouses, that I lost track of, and this might help me re-connect with a few.

[RTIII]

Lots of words, but if you listened carefully you realize that neither one of them had anything to say that they admired in Barack Obama - mostly just policy advice...
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[JDM73]

Of course there was no evidence that Iraq had a hand in 9/11. We thirty-percenters knew that back in early 2003...it was everybody else jumping on the panic bandwagon that led to disaster.
What really troubles me is that the Obama true believers are currently using the same tactics to shout down any opposition that Bush true believers were using six years ago. And what they're trying to prevent people from criticizing is the eerie similarity between the major policies of Obama and his predecessor.

[tangelan]

My condolences to George Tennet's family. It was awful to see him hit by that bus and then see the driver back up and run over him again.

[BigAl72]

LOL

[JessWonderin]

never felt a thing . . . Bush took all his nerve out years ago . . . . and his spine is jelly.

[peacegurl48]

Does this mean he will now take responsibility for all of the lives lost in their phony war? I doubt it; this is just more if his evil revision of history on his pathetic legacy tour.

[mag68]

Does this mean we can arrest him now? He should go on a nice, long vacation to Spain.

[BuzzingAlong]

Can you imagine the HORROR of carrying this family's DNA and passing it along to innocent babies?