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Thursday, July 24, 2003
I cannot tell a lie...I'll just omit pertinent facts
VP Dick Cheney came out of his hidey-hole long enough to, well, try and confuse the issue. But Mike Allen of the WaPo wasn't biting:
In his speech, Cheney laid out a detailed rationale for the war Bush launched on March 20, quoting at length from declassified sections of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq issued in October. White House officials have cited the NIE as their prime justification for the conflict. Cheney said it would have been "irresponsible in the extreme" to disregard the warnings.
As part of an effort to rebut criticism that the administration had exaggerated the threat, the White House last Friday released eight pages of excerpts from the intelligence report.
Cheney quoted some of the declassified passages, saying that Iraq was "continuing, and in some areas expanding, its chemical, biological, nuclear and missile program," and that Iraq "could make a nuclear weapon in months to a year once it acquires sufficient weapons-grade fissile material."
Although Cheney quoted the report as saying that Iraq, if left unchecked, "probably will have a nuclear weapon during this decade," he did not read the next sentence, which referred to a dissent from the State Department's intelligence experts. They called the assertion "highly dubious."
Cheney cited a passage that said all key aspects of Iraq's offensive biological weapons program "are active and that most elements are larger and more advanced than they were before the Gulf War." He omitted a qualifier at the start of the passage in which intelligence analysts said they "judge" that to be the case.
Cheney was then hustled back to his quarters before the sun came up, and tucked into his "bed" lined with soil from his native Wyoming.
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