15 February 2006
Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld have made headlines in the recent years making bizarre statements that were marginally, if at all, grounded in reality. Cheney, for instance, kept insisting that there was a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda even after all major intelligence agencies, both in the US and elsewhere, had failed to find any evidence to back this up.
But this sort of behaviour is nothing new for the two seasoned Washington power players. They did the same sort of thing some 30 years ago.
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