IRAQ AND AL QAEDA TIES
I'm still annoyed about the inability of reporters to be honest in their reporting and in the distillation of their reporting, the headline. Remember how the press headlined and teased the story that the 9/11 Commission said there was no link between Iraq and Al Qaeda. That was a lie. The report at issue said there was no "collaborative" relationship on 9/11, which is quite different from the BS headlines. Also, the Commission didn't say anything at all. It's staff wrote a report to the Commission members reviewing the staff's impression of things. Whatever, the left is all jazzed over this interview:

Transcript, CNBC’s “Capital Report,” June 17, 2004

Gloria Borger: “Well, let’s get to Mohammed Atta for a minute, because you mentioned him as well. You have said in the past that it was quote, “pretty well confirmed.”

Vice President Cheney: No, I never said that.

BORGER: OK.

Vice Pres. CHENEY: Never said that.

BORGER: I think that is...

Vice Pres. CHENEY: Absolutely not.

Then in a fit of excitement and self-satisfaction, they add the following

Transcript, NBC’s “Meet the Press,” December 9, 2001.

Vice-President Cheney: “It’s been pretty well confirmed that he did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in the Czech Republic last April.”

That's a great way to avoid the issue, by finding a statement from 2 1/2 years before and yelling "LIAR". Its more difficult to argue that the existence of a relationship between Iraq - a nation state - and al Qaeda - an organization with no purpose other than terrorism - somehow makes Iraq an innocent in the grand jihad. Since al Qaeda has only one purpose, I suspect their relationship wasn't concerned with prescription drug benefits for the Nation of Al Qaeda.

Funny thing is, of all the silly left wing sites that use this exact argument, no one picks up the transcript earlier so that we can know what the antecedent to "it" is in Gloria's opening question. The antecedent may very well be "the Praque meeting between Atta and Iraqi officals in the Czech Republic". Or it may not have been. It's funny that Gloria would just be getting to Mohammed Atta if that was the antecedent to "it." But I don't find it evidence of being a liar that you don't remember during one interview exactly what you said in another one 2 1/2 years ago - and even deny it. Asked now, Cheney would probably say that at the time he thought it was pretty well confirmed. The Czech's still believe it, even if the 9/11 Commission's staffers don't.