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WASHINGTON,
D.C. – U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) issued today’s “Bush Administration’s
Misstatement of the Day” on recent comments by Vice President Dick Cheney
about Iraq.
President
Bush proclaimed on 5/29/03 during an interview with TVP, Poland:
“We found the weapons of mass destruction.” And earlier that
year, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld stated during a nationally televised
interview, “We know where the [WMD] are.” (ABC “This Week with George
Stephanopoulos,” 3/30/03)
However,
in an interview with National Public Radio today, Vice President Cheney
said about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq: “It's going to take
some additional, considerable period of time in order to look in all the
cubby holes and the ammo dumps and all the places in Iraq where you might
expect to find something like that.”
Cheney
added during the NPR interview: “I continue to believe -- I think
there's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between al-Qaida
and the Iraqi government. I'm very confident that there was an established
relationship there.”
But
the New York Times reported on January 9, 2004:
Secretary
of State Colin L. Powell conceded Thursday that despite his assertions
to the United Nations last year, he had no “smoking gun” proof of a link
between the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and terrorists
of Al Qaeda. “I have not seen smoking-gun, concrete evidence about
the connection,” Mr. Powell said, in response to a question at a news conference.
(NY Times, 1/9/04)
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