A little earlier I linked to this choice Dick Cheney quote from yesterday. But after getting an email from TPM Reader GM, I just had to return to this one point that made me laugh the first time I read it.
Says Cheney …
And Steve Hayes is of the view — and I think he’s correct — that a lot of those documents that were captured over there that have not yet been evaluated offer additional evidence that, in fact, there was a relationship that stretched over many years between Saddam Hussein and the al Qaeda organization.
Now, Hayes and I are something between acquaintances and friends. I don’t want to get him in trouble by the association. And I’ll let him speak for himself. But I say this only by way of noting that it’s always created a bit of cognitive dissonance in my mind identifying the upstanding and amiable colleague I know with a lot of his work on Al Qaida and Saddam Hussein that, let’s just say, I can’t find any point of agreement with.
In any case, Dick Cheney speaks for himself. What we’re talking about here is what he said. And I will confide in you that I don’t have any problem giving him a hard time. So let’s look at this statement. Cheney says there are all these documents “that have not yet been evaluated.” But those unevaluated documents provide “additional evidence” of the fabled Iraq-AQ tie.
Does that make any sense?
You start to see how the Veep has managed to spout so much malarkey over the last five years when he seems to have so much difficulty spotting a logical fallacy.
We have this new defector. We haven’t heard yet what he has to say. But what he says sounds pretty convincing.
