“This was not some, some Cheney, you know, pipe dream.”
Senator Joe Biden
On Saddam’s WMD
Meet the Press
April 29, 2007
Just when democrats were getting their conspiracy on…
In comes Big Joe Biden to kick mud on the latest democratic conspiracy push.
Crooks’n Liars has the video of Sen. Dick Durbin preaching on the Senate floor last Wednesday. “Pol Pot” Durbin claimed that the Senate Intelligence Committee was given different information than what was given to the American people. Durbin said Intelligence Committee Members were aware that the Iraq Intelligence didn’t support the case for war.
However… It was soon discovered that the other democratic committee members had different thoughts at the time.
Sadly, Senator Joe Biden Sunday on Meet the Press dispelled any rumors that Bush lied about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction:
Just in case you missed it- Here is the transcript…
Joe Biden on Meet the Press on Sunday April 29, 2007:
MR. RUSSERT: I want to go back to 2002, because it’s important as to what people were saying then and what the American people were hearing. Here’s Joe Biden about Saddam Hussein: “He’s a long term threat and a short term threat to our national security.”
“We have no choice but to eliminate the threat. This is a guy who is an extreme danger to the world.”
“He must be dislodged from his weapons or dislodged from power.” You were emphatic about that.
SEN. BIDEN: That’s right, and I was correct about that. He must be, in fact—and remember the weapons we were talking about. I also said on your show, that’s part of what I said, but not all of what I meant. What I also said on your show at the time was that I did not think he had weaponized his material, but he did have. When, when the inspectors left after Saddam kicked them out, there was a cataloguing at the United Nations saying he had X tons of, X amount of, and they listed the various materials he had. The big issue, remember, on this show we talked about, was whether he had weaponized them. Remember you asked me about those flights that were taking place in southern Iraq, where—were they spraying anthrax? And, you know, what would happen? And, you know, so on and so forth. And I pointed out to you that they had not developed that capacity at all. But he did have these stockpiles everywhere.
MR. RUSSERT: Where are they?
SEN. BIDEN: Well, the point is, it turned out they didn’t, but everyone in the world thought he had them.
The weapons inspectors said he had them. He catalogued—they catalogued them. This was not some, some Cheney, you know, pipe dream. This was, in fact, catalogued. They looked at them and catalogued. What he did with them, who knows? The real mystery is, if he, if he didn’t have any of them left, why didn’t he say so? Well, a lot of people say if he had said that, he would’ve, you know, emboldened Iran and so on and so forth.
That one line is worth repeating again…
Biden said:
“This was not some, some Cheney, you know, pipe dream.”
Goodness!… Don’t let the nutroots hear that!
Update: Bryan at HotAir has more on the ‘Cheney pipe dream’ and Smokin’Joe Biden getting nasty.
