Excellent article showing Cheney's LIES at debate

[phish420]

Saw this online, gives good ammo for his lies - only a couple from Edwards, and they are all small discrepencies like the $200 billion, which depending how you look at it can be right or wrong...but Cheney just flat out lied.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/debates/articles/2004/10/06/fact_checking_the_debate/

Iraq
Cheney: "I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror." Cheney has consistently asserted strong prewar links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, even after the 9/11 Commission definitively concluded that there had not been a collaborative relationship between the two. In a radio interview in January 2004, Cheney said: "I think there's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government." Cheney has also been one of the strongest administration voices for several years bringing up reports of a possible meeting between 9/11 plot ringleader Mohamed Atta and an Iraqi agent in Prague in April 2001 as possible evidence of an Iraqi connection to the 9/11 attacks; the existence of that meeting has been widely discredited.

Cheney: "You made the comment that the Gulf War coalition in '91 was far stronger than this . No. We had 34 countries then; we've got 30 today." Beyond the US, countries in the current coalition have contributed only about 15 percent &em; or 25,000 &em; of the 160,000 non-Iraqi troops stationed in Iraq. In 1991, coalition countries contributed about 24 percent &em; or 160,000 &em; of the roughly 660,000 troops stationed in the Persian Gulf. Egypt alone sent 38,500 troops, more than all the foreign partners now in Iraq combined.

Cheney: "Then, in the mid-'80s, ran on the basis of cutting most of our major defense programs. ... It's a consistent pattern over time of always being on the wrong side of defense issues." Running for Senate in 1984, Kerry did propose cutting or downsizing several weapons system programs, and ultimately voted to do so in some cases; Kerry later called some of his positions in those days "ill-advised." Yet when Cheney himself was secretary of defense from 1989 to 1993, he, too, opposed some of the same weapons, such as fighter planes and tanks now being used in the war on terror. Some of Cheney's downsizing proposals that were not implemented would have affected today's military &em; including disbanding part of the Army's Fourth Infantry Division, the unit that captured Saddam Hussein in 2003. As Pentagon chief he also cancelled the B-2 and A-12 bombers, while scaling back the Seawolf submarine.

Much much more... http://www.boston.com/news/politics/debates/articles/2004/10/06/fact_checking_the_debate/

[phish420]

1. kick for a couple more readers...nt

[Infomaniac]

2. Excellent Article.

Thanks for the post.

[Francine Frensky]

3. The Kerry camp should say one word: Fantasy-land

liars create these little fantasy-lands for themselves where all their lies make sense.

we need to bring this admin back down to earth.