A link to the
spin...I mean article.
Vice President Cheney says he believes "the jury's still out" on whether Iraq had the chemical and biological weapons that were the Bush administration's justification for war.
And is doing his damndest to sequester said jury until after the election.
"I am a long way at this stage from concluding that somehow there was some fundamental flaw in our intelligence," Cheney said in an interview with USA TODAY and the Los Angeles Times.
In other words, there was no fundamental flaw in our intelligence. Cheney never cared in the first place.
In the nine months since the fall of Baghdad, David Kay, a former United Nations weapons inspector heading the search for such weapons, has found no conclusive evidence of them.
Nor was any evidence found in the prematurely-halted UN hunt prior to the war.
Democrats have accused Cheney of exaggerating the weapons threat to justify the invasion, and former Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill, who served on the National Security Council, says in a new book that he saw no evidence before the war that Iraq had chemical or biological weapons.
But none of that matters, as long as the Bushies continue to have a 24/7 soapbox on which to deliver their version of "the truth".
Cheney suggested that biological weapons are hard to find because they could be produced on short notice. "The stuff is perishable and doesn't last very long anyway," he said. But, he added, intelligence is "never perfect. It's rarely 100% complete."
Nevermind that all of the Administration clowns spoke in very specific terms about what Iraq did have. Going from tons to zilch is a pretty huge difference.