Elephant In Exile

Getting in good barbs wins the battle, but they better be accurate buddy!

Elephant gives Cheney the debate simply on his ability to keep chipping away at Edwards and his seemingly unending ability to just plain lie. When Edwards said Cheney was wrong about links between Al-Qaeda and Iraq, Cheney's reply...

"The senator has got his facts wrong. I have not suggested there's a
connection between Iraq and 9/11."

But wait! The Washington Post has the goods on this little humdinger and it's a big Whopper on Cheney's part. What Cheney has really said:

On Dec. 9, 2001, Cheney said on NBC's "Meet The Press" that "it's been pretty well confirmed that [Atta] did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack." On March 24, 2002, Cheney again told NBC, "We discovered . . . the allegation that one of the lead hijackers, Mohamed Atta, had, in fact, met with Iraqi intelligence in Prague."

On Sept. 8, 2002, Cheney, again on "Meet the Press," said that Atta "did apparently travel to Prague. . . . We have reporting that places him in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence officer a few months before the attacks on the World Trade Center." And a year ago, also on "Meet the Press," Cheney described Iraq as part of "the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but most especially on 9/11."

Great Post article. It goes after Edwards too. Check it out here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10244-2004Oct5.html