“They wouldn’t call me Darth Vader for nothing”
Dick Cheney on Gitmo, military intelligence failure, the [non] link between Iraq and Al Quaeda and memo declassification.
All in a recent National Press Club appearance, the highlights:
“I would not ordinarily be leading the charge to declassify classified information, otherwise they wouldn’t call me Darth Vader for nothing,” Cheney said.
“I do not believe and have never seen any evidence to confirm that [Hussein] was involved in 9/11. We had that reporting for a while, [but] eventually it turned out not to be true,”
Hussein was “somebody who provided sanctuary and safe harbor and resources to terrorists. ... [It] is, without question, a fact.”
former CIA Director George Tenet “testified… that there was a relationship,” Cheney said.
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center a “good facility ... the only other option is to kill them. And we don’t operate that way.
I find it odd that Cheney is suddenly taking to the spotlight to try to repair the tarnished image of the Bush administration. I mean, he doesn’t have the youth, or the clout to make any sort of political comeback. What’s his motive?
