12) "We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaeda and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions."
- Dick Cheney, January 9, 2004.
Again, there was no such relationship between al Qaeda and the Iraqi intelligence services.
13) "We know, for example, that prior to our going in that [Saddam] had spent time and effort acquiring mobile biological weapons labs, and we're quite confident he did, in fact, have such a program. We've found a couple of semi trailers at this point which we believe were, in fact, part of that program. I would deem that conclusive evidence, if you will, that he did, in fact, have programs for weapons of mass destruction."
- Dick Cheney, January 22, 2004.
A British investigation concluded those "mobile biological weapons labs" were nothing of the sort. The Iraq Survey group report states, "ISG has found no evidence to support the view that the trailers were used, or intended to be used, for the production of [biological warfare] agents."
14) "It’s clearly established in terms of training, provision of bomb-making experts, training of people with respect to chemical and biological warfare capabilities, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Iraq for training and so forth."
- Dick Cheney, June 4, 2004.
Again, not only was that not true, but the DIA and others in the intelligence community questioned it before the war began.
15) "I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."
- Dick Cheney, June 20, 2005.
Anti-Iraqi government insurgency persists nine years later.
16) "I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world."
- Dick Cheney, August 30, 2011.
The Iraq war drastically damaged our reputation around the world.
17) "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."
- Dick Cheney, October 28, 2013.