When Will Dick Cheneys Tower of Lies Finally Come Tumbling Down on Him?
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 insinuati
