Cheney defends statements on war criticsMon Nov 21, 2005 13:32
Cheney defends statements on war critics
By FT reporters in New York
Published: November 21 2005 16:31 | Last updated: November 21 2005 16:31
A/K/A CHENEY'S RESIGNATION SPEECH
US Vice-President Dick Cheney on Monday clarified reports that he called critics of the Iraq war unpatriotic, but he reiterated statements that senators who voted for the war and have now turned against it are being “dishonest”.
Calling John Murtha, the congressman who called for an immediate withdrawal last week, “my friend and former colleague”, Mr Cheney said at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank in Washington: “I disagree with Jack...but he’s a good man, a former marine and a patriot, and he’s taking a stand.”
“No one is saying we should not be having this discussion,” he said. ”What is not legitimate and what I will again say is dishonest and reprehensible is the suggestion by some senators that the president misled the public [in going to war in Iraq].”
Mr Cheney reeled off a list of reasons why “in a post-9/11 world, the president declined to trust a dictator who had weapons of mass destruction”, including Saddam Hussein’s record of having “committed mass murder”.
“Although our coaliton never found WMDs in Iraq, the burden of proof was on Saddam Hussein,” Mr Cheney said.
“The flaw in the intelligence are plain enough in hindsight,” he said but then quoted Senator John McCain: “It is a lie to say the President of the United States lied to the American people.”
Mr Cheney said any rapid withdrawal from Iraq would be a mistake and that it would be akin to handing Iraq over to al-Qaeda.
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