From: John Cuccia 

You misspelled "lying" in the subject line.

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:47:23 +0100, "Phil Payne"
 wrote:

>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1f27d8e4-4106-11db-827f-0000779e2340.html
>
>"In defending the decision to invade Iraq despite its lack of weapons of
>mass destruction, Mr Cheney said the fact that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the
>former head of al-Qaeda in Iraq who was killed in a US air strike this year,
>was in Baghdad before the war was evidence that Iraq had links to al-Qaeda.
>
>But a Senate intelligence committee report on prewar Iraq intelligence
>released on Friday concluded that there was no evidence that Mr Hussein's Ba
>'athist regime had either harboured or turned a blind eye to Mr Zarqawi.
>
>In an hour-long interview on NBC television, Mr Cheney argued that the
>invas ion of Iraq had imp roved the country. While recognising the increase
>in sectarian violence, he said Iraq was better off without Mr Hussein. "If
>we weren't there?.?.?.?the situation would be far worse than it is today,"
>Mr Cheney said."

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