Posted 8/22/2006 05:35:00 PM by Douglas

Quick note on being President: If you know everything your administration is being taped, don't lie out your ass:

. . . nobody has suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack. Iraq was a — Iraq — the lesson of September 11th is take threats before they fully materialize, Ken. Nobody’s ever suggested that the attacks of September the 11th were ordered by Iraq.

Oh really? 'Cuase this idiot in the blogosphere found this in seven seconds:

VICE PRES. CHENEY: We don’t know. You and I talked about this two years ago. I can remember you asking me this question just a few days after the original attack. At the time I said no, we didn’t have any evidence of that. Subsequent to that, we’ve learned a couple of things. We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the ’90s, that it involved training, for example, on BW and CW, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Baghdad to get trained on the systems that are involved. The Iraqis providing bomb-making expertise and advice to the al-Qaeda organization.

And yes, I realize Bush says "ordered" while Cheney says "relationship", but honestly. Do they really want to get in the business of "statement parsing?" They'll never be near as good as uncle Billy and his definition of "is."

If you want to pull the old "bait and switch" on the American people, do it. But don't apologize for it later and make up some lame shit that it didn't happen. CNN has archives.