Mick Wright.net

CNN is running with the shocking headline, “Cheney: No link between Saddam Hussein, 9/11.”

The quote: “I do not believe and have never seen any evidence to confirm that [Hussein] was involved in 9/11. We had that reporting for a while, [but] eventually it turned out not to be true.”

Gosh, if only Cheney would have said something sooner…

September 16, 2001

Russert: Do we have any evidence linking Saddam Hussein or Iraqis to this operation?

Cheney: No.

September 14, 2003

Russert. [I]s there a connection?

Cheney: We don’t know. You and I talked about this two years ago. I can remember you asking me this question just a few days after the original attack. At the time I said no, we didn’t have any evidence of that. Subsequent to that, we’ve learned a couple of things. We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the ’90s, that it involved training, for example, on BW and CW, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Baghdad to get trained on the systems that are involved. The Iraqis providing bomb-making expertise and advice to the al-Qaeda organization.

We know, for example, in connection with the original World Trade Center bombing in ’93 that one of the bombers was Iraqi, returned to Iraq after the attack of ’93. And we’ve learned subsequent to that, since we went into Baghdad and got into the intelligence files, that this individual probably also received financing from the Iraqi government as well as safe haven.

Now, is there a connection between the Iraqi government and the original World Trade Center bombing in ’93? We know, as I say, that one of the perpetrators of that act did, in fact, receive support from the Iraqi government after the fact. With respect to 9/11, of course, we’ve had the story that’s been public out there. The Czechs alleged that Mohamed Atta, the lead attacker, met in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official five months before the attack, but we’ve never been able to develop anymore of that yet either in terms of confirming it or discrediting it. We just don’t know.

Sept . 10, 2006

RUSSERT: Well, I asked you, I said, “is there a connection between Saddam and 9/11 on September ‘03” and you said “we don’t know.”

CHENEY: (Unintelligible). That’s right.

RUSSERT: So you raised that possibility.

CHENEY: It was raised by the CIA who passed on the report from the Czech Intelligence Service.

RUSSERT: All right. Now the president has been asked, “What did Iraq have to do with the attack on the World Trade Center?” and he said “nothing.” Do you agree with that?

CHENEY: I do. So it’s not…

RUSSERT: So it’s case, case closed.

CHENEY: We’ve never been able to confirm any connection between Iraq and 9/11.

The Bush administration said this again and again and again, but the Leftist media still continues to hear only what it wants to hear.

Newsbusters has more quotes.

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