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On July 31, 2007, V.P. Cheney appeared on the Larry King Show. There was a certain dejavu quality about it all.During the interview Cheney references to an article published July 30, 2007 in the NY Times that lends support to his perspectives regarding the war in Iraq:
A war we just might win
By Michael E. O'Hanlon and Kenneth M. Pollack
NY Times July 30, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/30/opinion/30pollack.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Also:
S F Chronicle, Open Forum July 31, 2007
click here
• On September 8, 2002 a similar thing occurred during an interview on "Meet the Press." Cheney referenced to an article that was published earlier that morning in the NY Times lending support to his allegations that Iraq was seeking "equipment...to be able to enrich uranium to make the bombs"
NBC News - MEET THE PRESS
Sunday, September 8, 2002
GUEST: V.P. DICK CHENEY
MODERATOR/PANELIST: Tim Russert
RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: September 11, one year later; the fate of Iraq's Saddam Hussein; ...Our guest, an exclusive interview with the vice president of the United States, Dick Cheney.
• For full transcript visit:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/meet.htm
• During the interview Russert and Cheney discuss a litany of topics regarding 9-11 and by association links the threat of Iraq...Russert leads into Iraq with:
RUSSERT: Let me turn to the issue of Iraq. You have said that it poses a mortal threat to the United States....
RUSSERT: What, specifically, has he obtained that you believe would enhance his nuclear development program?
CHENEY: Well, in the nuclear weapons arena...he now is trying, through his illicit procurement network, to acquire the equipment he needs to be able to enrich uranium to make the bombs.
RUSSERT: Aluminum tubes.
CHENEY: Specifically aluminum tubes. There's a story in The New York Times this morning-this is-I don't-and I want to attribute The Times. I don't want to talk about, obviously, specific intelligence sources, but it's now public that, in fact, he has been seeking to acquire..."
• The article:
The New York Times article:
(Co- authored by Judith Miller)
September 8, 2002
New York Times
U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts
By Michael R. Gordon and Judith Miller
click here
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 - More than a decade after Saddam Hussein agreed to give up weapons of mass destruction, Iraq has stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb, Bush administration officials said today...
• A "buttress" article appears in the NY Times on Sept 13, 2002 also written by Miller and Gordon:
New York Times
September 13, 2002
By JUDITH MILLER and MICHAEL R. GORDON
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/13/international/middleeast/13ARMS.html
Seeking to buttress the case for military action against Iraq, the Bush administration published a brief paper yesterday outlining what it says are efforts by Saddam Hussein to develop chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, and the missiles to deliver them...
• So is this an old dog using old tricks?
• Since the Brookings Institute is a private nonprofit "liberal think tank" in Washington DC, the question becomes; who funded-commissioned-donated for the 8 day vacation for O'Hanlon and Pollack and subsequent article "A war we just might win"? http://www.brook.edu/index/about.htm
• Perhaps today's Letter to the Editor by Paul Justison "Missing cold, hard facts in 'good news' article" provides some clues?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/08/01/EDKJRAILC2.DTL
• Who can put credibility into anything this administration says or does on just about anything, especially Iraq? http://www.bushoniraq.com/index.html
• Misleading quotes, leading up to the war:
He (Saddam) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq..."
Colin Powell, Cairo, February 24, 2001
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12555.htm
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/powell-no-wmd.htm
"Saddam Hussein had not been able to "build his military back up or to develop weapons of mass destruction" for "the last 10 years". America, he said, had been successful in keeping him "in a box".
Colin Powell, May 15 2001
They have chemical weapons; they have biological weapons; they're trying to acquire nuclear weapons."
Colin Powell, Interview on the Oprah Winfrey Show, ABC Oct 22, 2002
"Saddam does not control the northern part of the country." "We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt."
Condoleezza Rice July 29, 2001, CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer w Guest Host John King
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12555.htm
http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/powell-no-wmd.htm
"We do know (Hussein) is actively pursing a nuclear weapon"
Condoleezza Rice Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, CNN Sept. 8, 2002
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."
V.P Cheney - Speaks at VFW 103rd National Convention, White House August 26, 2002
"Major combat operations have ended"
George Bush, May 1, 2003, USS Abraham Lincoln
http://www.state.gov/p/nea/rls/rm/20203.htm
