Cheney is at it again. After telling us last week that he had NEVER, NEVER I TELL YOU, tried to link Al Qaeda and Saddam, today he implied the linkage again. Cheney said today that:
"The situation we faced was Saddam Hussein and Iraq presented the most likely place where there could be a nexus between the terrorists on the one hand and weapons of mass destruction."Really? How so? There was no nexus AT ALL between Saddam and Al Qaeda, so why was Iraq the "most likely place" where WMD could go to terrorists? Iraq didn't even have WMD, so wouldn't that make it a bit hard for them to give WMD to terrorists? I mean, Iran, now they have terrorist ties and are trying to develop nukes. North Korea, they tried to blow up the South Korean cabinet with a terrorist bomb, and they apparently now have nukes and are getting more each day. They certainly have the capacity to nexus with terrorists. But Saddam, how?
And then there's the former Soviet Union. Stockpiles of weapons not very well guarded. Nuclear scientists without work, willing to help the highest bidder? Military personnel who are broke, willing to sell a portable nuke or some uranium to a terrorist? All of the above apply.
But no. Neither Iran, North Korea, or the former Soviet Union has much of a possibility of getting out of control and helping the terrorists., per Dick Cheney. According to Dick Cheney, the greatest risk of a state giving terrorists WMD was in Iraq, a place where there was no WMD and no real strong ties to terrorists at all. The man is fucking pathological.
And of course, here's my favorite Cheney quote from today's article:
"Looking back on it now, with everything we know today, the world is a whale of a lot better off with Saddam Hussein in jail."Since I'm not running for president I can ask the obvious question: How is the world better off now that Saddam is in jail? Osama is still free. We find out yesterday that under the US' watch Iraq's nuclear scientists may have now sold nuclear-bomb making materials to terrorists, since they're now unemployed after the US invasion. The US invasion of Iraq has been a boon for Al Qaeda recruitment, and Al Qaeda's top leadership has reconstituted itself. Over 1,000 US families have to cope with dead loves ones from the war. Our military is so over-stretched that if another major conflict arises we won't have the troops to respond without a draft. And most of the world hates our living guts.
So I ask again, how EXACTLY is the world ANY SAFER now that Saddam is behind bars? I just don't get it. And if we had a real media in this country they would ask Cheney that very question.
