Associated Press
MIAMI - Vice President Dick Cheney asserted on Thursday that a report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, who found no evidence that Iraq produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991, justifies rather than undermines President Bush's decision to go to war.
The report shows that "delay, defer, wasn't an option," Cheney told a town-hall style meeting.
While Democrats seized on the new report by Charles Duelfer to bolster their case that invading Iraq was a mistake, Cheney focused on portions of the report that were more favorable to the administration's case.
Although it says Saddam's weapons program had deteriorated since the 1991 Gulf War and did not pose a threat to the world in 2003, the report also says that Saddam's main goal was to get international sanctions lifted.
"As soon as the sanctions were lifted he had every intention of going back" to his weapons program, Cheney said.
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EXCUSE No. 87: We went to war based on what we THOUGHT Saddam might do later...
Does Cheney have no SHAME...
MIAMI - Vice President Dick Cheney asserted on Thursday that a report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, who found no evidence that Iraq produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991, justifies rather than undermines President Bush's decision to go to war.
The report shows that "delay, defer, wasn't an option," Cheney told a town-hall style meeting.
While Democrats seized on the new report by Charles Duelfer to bolster their case that invading Iraq was a mistake, Cheney focused on portions of the report that were more favorable to the administration's case.
Although it says Saddam's weapons program had deteriorated since the 1991 Gulf War and did not pose a threat to the world in 2003, the report also says that Saddam's main goal was to get international sanctions lifted.
"As soon as the sanctions were lifted he had every intention of going back" to his weapons program, Cheney said.
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EXCUSE No. 87: We went to war based on what we THOUGHT Saddam might do later...
Does Cheney have no SHAME...
