Sperry details 9 "Whoppers" told by Cheney:
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Whopper No. 1: On Oct. 10, 2003, Cheney told neocons at the Heritage Foundation that Saddam Hussein "had an established relationship with al-Qaeda," a charge contradicted by U.S. intelligence briefings Cheney has received.
The National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq found that Saddam's secular regime had no working relationship with al-Qaeda and would only take the "extreme step" of reaching out to such Islamic terrorists if it were attacked by the U.S. and had nothing to lose. Even then, the report said the intelligence community had "low confidence" in such a scenario.
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Whopper No. 6: Cheney has suggested Iraq sponsored 9-11, or at least harbored and supported the terrorists who attacked America.
"If we're successful in Iraq," he told Russert last September, "we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9-11."
His words belie the findings of his intelligence services, who unanimously agreed in the secret NIE dossier on Iraq that its government was not behind 9-11 or the first World Trade Center bombing or the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa or any other "assault," as Cheney put it, on American territory.
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