Associated Press:
Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday urged the 978 new graduates of the U.S. Military Academy to provide leadership to troops fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Noting that West Point is about 50 miles north of where terrorists struck lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, the vice president said, "Nobody can promise us we won't be hit again."
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"We're fighting a war over there because the enemy attacked us first," Cheney said. "These are men who glorify murder and suicide. Terrorists are defined entirely by their hatreds."
It's shameless, the way the Bush administration and the GOP continue to tie Iraq to 9/11. Dick Cheney's never been one to let the truth get in the way of propaganda and there's no change here. He's saying that 9/11 is the reason for the war in Iraq, despite the fact that President Bush himself admitted, "We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September the eleventh." It was a rare moment of candor -- and one that Bush has rarely revisited.
This myth, that invading Iraq was a response to 9/11, is something that the right is having a damned hard time putting down....
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