He's Gone Cheney

In case you have not heard, the Vice President was on talk radio show Limbaugh on Thursday. On the show Cheney once again put out the old line that Saddam Hussein was connected to Al Qaeda and that Al Qaeda was established in Iraq prior to the Shock and Awe U.S. Invasion.

In a most curious synchronistic development, the Pentagon released a report at about the very same time, that stated in unequivocal terms that there were no links between Saddam and Al Qaeda and that Al Qaeda was not based and supported in Iraq prior to the U.S. invasion.

From the Washington Post: Hussein's Prewar Ties To Al-Qaeda Discounted

excerpt 1: "Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides "all confirmed" that Hussein's regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to a declassified Defense Department report released yesterday."

excerpt 2: "Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), who requested the report's declassification, said in a written statement that the complete text demonstrates more fully why the inspector general concluded that a key Pentagon office -- run by then-Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith -- had inappropriately written intelligence assessments before the March 2003 invasion alleging connections between al-Qaeda and Iraq that the U.S. intelligence consensus disputed"

How do we explain the Vice President's statements?

First, Cheney is a loyalist neo-conservative. As such he owes allegiance to the neo-conservatives who originally put forth the idea of invading Iraq. He will never ever dislodge his thinking rationale from that ideology. To do so would be an acknowledgment of his deception, authoritarians do not acknowledge their malfeasance.

Second, Cheney is still relying on the false information propagated by the Office of Special Plans. An office established at the Pentagon by neo-con Douglas Feith to essentially make up reasons to invade Iraq while usurping all other intelligence agencies. If there was ever a case of supreme malfeasance in the U.S, government, it would be from this office.

Third, all of the above link back to, yes, the Project for a New American Century, which includes participant Cheney. PNAC continues to raise its unsightly head directly into the mainstream of American discourse, most recently from the mouth of Cheney on neo-con radio host Limbaugh's show.

Make no mistake, Cheney is fully aware of his deception. Impeachment is the remedy.