Cheney admits no link between Saddam, 9/11


	Cheney admits no link between Saddam, 9/11

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4ab05452-88c1-41e0-94d8-d6d98d35e4e1/ACC708F4-9454-4C3D-AB92-FF4901D7CA3F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.antiwar.com/2009/06/01/cheney-admits-no-link-between-saddam-911/" href="http://news.antiwar.com/2009/06/01/cheney-admits-no-link-between-saddam-911/" style="font-size: 11px;">news.antiwar.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.antiwar.com/2009/06/01/cheney-admits-no-link-between-saddam-911/"><DIV id="box">
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			</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.antiwar.com/2009/06/01/cheney-admits-no-link-between-saddam-911/"><P>Nearly eight years after the fact, former Vice President Dick <A href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/01/cheney.speech/">Cheney finally admitted that there was absolutely no evidence to suggest that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11</A>. He did however defend the invasion and the subsequent war, saying Hussein had “without question” provided sanctuary to other terrorist groups.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.antiwar.com/2009/06/01/cheney-admits-no-link-between-saddam-911/"><P><IMG hspace="10" vspace="10" align="right" alt="" src="http://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/cheney.jpg" />Repeatedly during his two terms as vice president, Cheney claimed there was overwhelming evidence linking the former Iraqi president to the al-Qaeda attack, and <A href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/18/cheney.iraq.al.qaeda/">publicly condemned the 9/11 commission for claiming</A> that there was “no credible evidence” linking the two.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.antiwar.com/2009/06/01/cheney-admits-no-link-between-saddam-911/"><P>The issue was brought back to the public’s attention in April, when the Obama Administration released memos relating to the abuse of detainees in US custody. Officials pointed to Cheney (among others), saying he had <A href="http://news.antiwar.com/2009/06/01/cheney-admits-no-link-between-saddam-911/../2009/04/22/abusive-tactics-used-to-seek-iraq-al-qaeda-link/">pressed for the harsh tactics to produce proof of the link between Hussein and al-Qaeda</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/ACC708F4-9454-4C3D-AB92-FF4901D7CA3F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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