Vice President Richard Cheney - Inaccurate and Misleading Statements about Iraq

Bush on Iraq; The Bush Administration's Misleading and Inaccurate Public Statements on Iraq

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Analysis of Public Statements made by Vice President Richard Cheney

The Bush Administration's Public Statements on Iraq

Vice President Richard Cheney on Chemical and Biological Weapons:

"We know they have biological and chemical weapons."

Source: Press Conference by Vice President Cheney and his Highness Salam bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain, White House (3/17/2002).

Explanation This statement was misleading because it professed certainty when the intelligence community provided only an "estimate." According to CIA Director George Tenet, "it is important to underline the word estimate. Because not everything we analyze can be known to a standard of absolute proof." In addition, the statement failed to acknowledge the Defense Intelligence Agency position that: "There is no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons or where Iraq has -- or will -- establish its chemical warfare agent production facilities."

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