Actual quote:
VP Cheney wrote:
If we are successful in Iraq, if we can stand up a good, representative government in Iraq that secures the region so that it never again becomes a threat to its neighbors or to the United States, so it's not pursuing weapons of mass destruction, so that it's not a safe haven for terrorists, we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11.
How this is reported:
Quote:
Cheney asserted that Iraq had been "the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11,"
Please tell me I'm not the only one who sees a blatant change of meaning between those two...
Comments? Excuses from the left? Anything?
EDIT: Added links to the articles.
Edited, Wed Jun 16 22:22:10 2004 by gbaji