Iraq war tied to no attacks in the United States: Cheney

[DeclinetoState]

US Vice President Dick Cheney said that the war in Iraq was "in part responsible" for the absence of terrorist attacks in the United States since the September 11, 2001 strikes.

In a radio interview, a transcript of which was released by the White House (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22White+House%22&sid=breitbart.com), Cheney also said that US soldiers (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22US+soldiers%22&sid=breitbart.com) involved in alleged atrocities in Iraq should be presumed innocent until proven guilty, and predicted that US President George W. Bush's Republican party would win November congressional elections.

But three years after the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein (http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Saddam+Hussein%22&sid=breitbart.com), the vice president still took pains to justify the war to a skeptical US public, saying that Saddam's ouster was a blow to international terrorism.


Breitbart.com (http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/15/060615234809.1bdsjdt9.html)

[Rhino]

The MSM will either ignore it, or attempt to ridicule it.

[DeclinetoState]

See also The Terrorism Index (http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/showthread.php?t=36863).

[Naturalized-Texan]

No one in the Bush Administration has ever claimed that Iraq was tied to attacks on the U.S. However, we know that Saddam trained, financed, harbored, and armed terrorists, including al Qaeda terrorists and there is strong circumstantial evidence that at least some of the 9/11 terrorists were trained at Salman Pak, 25 miles south of Baghdad.