Sunday, February 15, 2004

Cheney's a liar

What could be clearer?

From the Miami Herald.

"Cheney, opening the administration's drive for public support for Hussein's ouster, said in an Aug. 26, 2002, speech that 'firsthand testimony' from defectors had disclosed that Hussein had resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.

"Those defectors, Cheney said, included Gen. Hussein Kamal, Hussein's son-in-law, who fled to Jordan in 1995 and was murdered when he returned to Baghdad in 1996.

"Cheney's assertion, however, conflicts with Kamal's comments in an interview conducted by Rolf Ekeus, the then-head of a U.N. weapons inspection program.

'''All weapons -- biological, chemical, missile, nuclear -- were destroyed,' Kamal said, according to an official U.N. transcript of the Aug. 22, 1995, session.

"Cheney's office did not explain the apparent discrepancy."

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