Dick Cheney: "I'm living in Fantasyland!"
Submitted by Reverend Chuck0:Cheney says it's too soon to tell on Iraqi arms
Mon Jan 19, 7:29 AM ET
By Judy Keen, USA TODAY
Vice President Cheney says he believes "the jury's still out" on whether Iraq had the chemical and biological weapons that were the Bush administration's justification for war.
"I am a long way at this stage from concluding that somehow there was some fundamental flaw in our intelligence," Cheney said in an interview with USA TODAY and the Los Angeles Times.
In the nine months since the fall of Baghdad, David Kay, a former United Nations weapons inspector heading the search for such weapons, has found no conclusive evidence of them.
Democrats have accused Cheney of exaggerating the weapons threat to justify the invasion, and former Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill, who served on the National Security Council, says in a new book that he saw no evidence before the war that Iraq had chemical or biological weapons.
Cheney suggested that biological weapons are hard to find because they could be produced on short notice. "The stuff is perishable and doesn't last very long anyway," he said. But, he added, intelligence is "never perfect. It's rarely 100% complete."
