Dick Cheney says Iraq War was worth it because - NOW WE KNOW - they didn't have WMDs

[kpete]

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said on Monday that what the United States gained as a result of the war in Iraq was that Iraq now does not have weapons of mass destruction.

While professing that he’s not trying to blame Cheney or President Bush for doing anything wrong by invading Iraq, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly wondered what the U.S. got out of the whole thing. “They finger pointed you and Bush and I don’t want to do that,” O’Reilly said, “But we spent a $1 trillion on this with a lot of pain and suffering on the American military. What did we get out of it? Beside Saddam being out of there?”

While Cheney meandered for a few minutes, he finally settled on the main prize: an Iraq without weapons of mass destruction:

O’REiLLY: But what — right now, what do we — what do we get of Iraq for all of that blood and treasure? What do we get out of it?

CHENEY: What we gain and my concern was then and it remains today is that the biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that.

MORE:
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/10/29/2853061/cheney-iraq-wmd/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/29/1251545/-Dick-Cheney-says-Iraq-War-was-worth-it-because-now-we-know-they-didn-t-have-WMDs

[Hoyt]

1. I would laugh if that weren't so sad. Killed more of our guys than 9/11, not to mention

hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis, and God knows what other harm.

[bemildred]

2. That's pathetic. nt

[KansDem]

3. This is what passes for "statesmanship" these days?

We knew there was no WMDs, Dick, but you and Boy George wanted an invasion so badly you lied to us about Iraq having them.

Oh, and it cost between $3 and $6 trillion, so pay up! We'll accept a check if you include your thumbprint on it...

[Rex]

4. What a pathetic excuse for a human Cheney is.

He is so unworthy of a new heart. So he just admitted we invaded Iraq for no good reason at the time! THANKS DICK! Keep it up and somebody around the world will finally catch you and bring you up on charges!

Fucking war criminals deserve to die behind bars in a cold and lonely prison somewhere.

I don't even care what country it is in. Justice demands to be served.

[leftynyc]

5. Fuck you, Dick

There were no al queda in Iraq until we got there, asshole.

[Mr Dixon]

6. SMH

No surprise, Evil is real people very real and this guy is an example of evil

[gopiscrap]

7. what a god damn fucking asshole!

that piece of shit belongs in an orange jump suit sitting in a cell!

[Wounded Bear]

8. Ahhh, so it was all a fact-finding mission?

Now I get it.

[irisblue]

9. dick dick dick

you waste of oxygen hydrogen and glucose....I never believed in true evil until you ...(Hitler was many decades before me)...when the day comes that your evil is extinguished and you open your scabrous eyes on the other side, I pray you know how your existence was bad, a blight, a curse a shame for all of human kind for all eternity

[Scuba]

10. An odiferous gas bubble leaking from a quivering blob of santorum.

[madokie]

11. Before al qaeda wasn't in Iraq you idiot

now they damn sure are

there is no doubt in my mind this is all getting to the heartless bastard otherwise he'd just let it lay.
I'd hate to be him is all I know. All the money in the world wouldn't change that either

[City Lights]

12. Go fuck yourself, Dick.

Fuck yourself up, down, and sideways.

Fuck you, you fucking fuck!

[grasswire]

13. at least he was named a war criminal on CNN last week.

Andrew Sullivan named Cheney a war criminal and said that Cheney is the man who introduced torture to America and was proud of it.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

14. Sullivan is late. Cheney went on TV in 2008 and openly admitted approving of waterboarding.

[ck4829]

15. Well, at least we are now sure those drowned women weren't witches

Between waterboarding and this, how many other Inquisition fantasies does Cheney have?

[Wilms]

16. ^

[Th1onein]

17. Please, Dick, go back to your bunker in Wyoming.

Don't you get it? We hate your guts, you murdering, torturing bag of feces.

[avaistheone1]

18. Dick is a sicko.