[zerojunkie]

Originally Posted by -m-

I don't think Cheney or anyone else who has made that statement has been clear enough in making that distinction though. I saw a lot of sense in Cheney's speech, oddly enough, but even from closely listening I got the initial impression that he was still connecting 9/11 to Saddam. I would respect them even more if they just admitted that after the attacks and six years of Saddam taunting the UN investigators they made a call, and it was a blunder.

They haven't been clear enough until now, and all of the sudden it's backtracking. Everything I've listened to has them saying there's a report of this or an allegation of that concerning Saddam and 9/11. The verbiage they used when speaking of Saddam's more well established misdeeds never had such ambiguity. Bush's administration was not forthright with the details surrounding the allegations, but it doesn't seem as though they were dishonest.