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by Peter Huessy
• July 30, 2014 at 5:00 am
The Washington
Post's Glenn Kessler not only invents points the Cheneys did not
make, he then casually dismisses "uncomfortable points" they
did make. How many Pinocchios is that worth?
Kessler
evidently assumes that when intelligence assessments differ, the correct
version is only that which differs from the points made by the Cheneys
but not by their critics.
Most senior
Democratic members of the Senate at the time voted -- twice -- for giving
the President the authority to take down Saddam Hussein. How else can
Democrats say they made a mistake voting for the war if they cannot now
make the case that they were "fooled"?
The U.S.
took down Saddam Hussein's regime because on balance the
threat-intelligence could not be ignored.
Dick
and Liz Cheney, appearing last month on Fox News to discuss Iraq. (Image
source: Fox News video screenshot)
A recent article in the Weekly Standard by former Vice
President Dick Cheney and his daughter, former Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State Liz Cheney, noted that there was sufficient evidence prior to
the 2003 liberation of Iraq that Saddam Hussein might coordinate
terrorist attacks against the U.S. and its interests.
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