Cheney Lies About Explosives

Dick Cheney is continuing his disgusting practice of telling flat out lies to the American public. This time he is lying about the explosives the IAEA says the US military failed to secure after the invasion of Iraq. The Pentagon has quickly put up an army officer who says he destroyed some materials from the general area in question, but when asked if it has been confirmed that any of the materials he destroyed were those put in question by the IAEA, both the officer and the Pentagon said they did not know.

Nevertheless, the New York Times reports:

Soon afterward, however, Vice President Dick Cheney, speaking at a campaign stop in Dimondale, Mich., cited the Army officer's comments, at a Pentagon news conference, as evidence that some of the missing explosives had been demolished.

"They seized and destroyed some 250 tons of ammunition,'' Mr. Cheney said, "which included in that amount some significant portions of the explosives in question.''


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