Cheney: Iraq war ’saved lives.’

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Cheney: Iraq war ’saved lives.’

Speaking this afternoon at the National Press Club, Cheney vigorously defended the Bush administration’s national security policies, including the decision to go to war in Iraq, which he rhetorically linked to 9/11 over and over. He also declared that the Iraq war “saved lives”:

CHENEY: The problem we were faced with in the aftermath of 9/11 was the possibility of another 9/11-style attack, only with much deadlier technology, a 9/11 with nukes or biological agents of some kind. That concern drove a lot of our thinking in that period, in those months after 9/11. … I think it was a sound decision to make. I think it was an important part of our overall strategy in the Global War on Terror. I think it saved lives.

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Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. He had no links to al Qaeda. And the Iraq war has resulted in the deaths of more than 4,300 American soldiers and roughly 100,000 Iraqis.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Yeah? Whose?

Name a few, DICK. I dare you.

[BlueCollar]

2. Dick "think" it saved lives??????

I "know" you are a prick Dick

[Captain Hilts]

3. Lightening will strike him if he keeps saying that shit. nt

[Cha]

4. Jaysus! I thought when Obama

won we wouldn't have to hear this fuckin' shit comin' outta cheney.

[Uncle Joe]

5. This is a lie, we've faced the possibility of a 9/11 attack with much deadlier technology

since the 1950s or 1960s

9/11 didn't change shit in that regard it just happened on Cheney/Bush's watch, either because they weren't watching, they didn't care or they were behind it, take your pick.

Cheney/Bush ignored the advice and experience passed on to them from the Clinton Administration as to why they did it is anyone's guess, maybe PNAC knows?

Not only did Cheney/Bush and their cabal drop the ball for all practical purposes on purpose, they worked to destroy the very "freedoms" they claimed the terrorists hated the American People for!

Cheney/Bush didn't defend the Constitution and they did the terrorists work for them.

[Lasher]

6. This knucklehead just says whatever he wants the truth to be.

No matter how outrageous. "I am, in fact, the most adored person who has ever lived."

[Faygo Kid]

7. He's never going away, is he?

War criminal and then some. He is never going away.

[Cha]

9. Not as long as we have the war criminal corporatemedia-

whores calling the shots on the airwaves.

[jenmito]

8. I've also seen other Repubs. include the Iraq invasion as something that HELPED MUSLIMS

by "saving them from a brutal dictator." :eyes:

[zulchzulu]

10. Cheney would make George Orwell's head explode n/t

[dhill926]

11. yeah well.....except for those who lost theirs......asshole....n/t

[bemildred]

12. Well, you gotta wonder what, in Dick's view, something that killed a lot of people would look like.

[Jennicut]

13. He admitted today that Saddam has no tie to al Qaeda so he needs to justify the Iraq War somehow

He needs to lay off the interviews and rest his old creaky heart (hint, hint).