Cheney says that report justifies invasion,
- "The information was wrong so the decision was right".
Dick Cheney yesterday insisted that the final report of the Iraqi Survey Group which revealed that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction, nor the ability to build them justified the invasion by US and UK troops.
“The report is very clear” Cheney told BIGfib’s Lolo LaRoche.
“It says - The country’s ability to make banned weapons was essentially destroyed during the gulf war – The key word is essentially… it doesn’t say completely it says essentially and that means that they were able to start producing them again at any moment," Cheney insisted.
“Anyone who doubted the need to invade Iraq should now be convinced, and I know at least a thousand families around the country who have no doubts that we were right to act.”
BIGfib’s hard hitting reporter Lolo LaRoche, asked Mr Cheney whether the comment by Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group and America’s top arms inspector that the US was, “almost all wrong” on Iraq made him doubt any of his administrations' policy decisions but Cheney was adamant.
“Duelfer is saying that all of the information on which we acted was wrong, but he’s not saying that what we did was wrong… Those are too different things, and I still say, this administration still says, that based on completely wrong information, what we did was completely right.”
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