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Kid Berwyn

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5. Lock them up.
Thu Mar 23, 2023, 09:15 AM
Mar 2023


Dick Cheney's Biggest Lie

BY KURT EICHENWALD
Newsweek, 05/19/15

Excerpt…

And for any analysts unclear on what the administration wanted to hear, Vice President Dick Cheney, whom several Bush officials told me was not as smart as the president, made sure they got the message on August 26, 2002, when he delivered a public speech that had not been vetted by the White House or cleared by Bush. "There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction,'' he said. "There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us."

The clear message to the worker bees at the CIA: The White House knew Saddam had the weapons. Disagree at peril to your career.

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https://www.newsweek.com/2015/05/29/dick-cheneys-biggest-lie-333097.html
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