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Originally Posted by livius drusus
Number 7 struck me as shady. It equivocates, setting up Cheney's terrorists hung out in Iraq insinuations in counterpoint to the 9/11 commission's findings that the government of Iraq had no involvement in the WTC attacks. The two things are not the same at all. Besides, iirc Cheney's made actual statements about Iraq's was directly connected to 9/11. Legum was sloppy and went for the more famous quote even though it was basically a non sequitur.
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I don't know. I think in context Cheney's saying Iraq was Al Queda's geographic base of operations was a deliberate attempt to imply a relationship between Saddam Hussein and Al Queda. So the commission's finding that there was in fact no operational relationship seems relevant to me.