I ask this question because the Vice President claims he never met Joe Wilson. Now we know about Mr. Cheney and these kinds of claims: after all, he said in the debate with John Edwards that he had never met the Senator even though it turns out he had sat next to him for several hours at a National Prayer Breakfast (and too bad it was not until after the debate that Elisabeth Edwards raised that point - what might have been the effect had the Seanotr done soe within the debate?).
I raise the specific debate because that is the day Joe Wilson met President George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st, in the Oval office -- WITH HIS WAR CABINET.
Cheney was Secretrary of Defense in that administration. The first air attacks on Iraq started a few days later, around January 17 with Apaches and stealth planes if memory serves. One presumes that if the War Cabinet were meeting that close to the beginning of the conflict, the Secretary of Defense would have been present. So where was Cheney?
In fairness, I believe that Ambassador Wilson has acknowledged that he does not know Cheney, and may even have said that they didn't meet. And it is also possible that Bush 41 was greeting Wilson at about the time he was going to meet with his War Cabinet so introduced him to those members who were already at the White House, and Cheney had not yet arrived.
But it puzzles me. So I want to know, if anyone can figure it out, where was Cheney? Who was president when George H W Bush introduced Joe Wilson to his war cabinet as a national hero?
Looking forward to responses and comments.
