Your Vice President Dick Cheney (9/10/06):
“Think where we’d be if he was still there. He’d be sitting on top of a big pile of cash, because he’d have $65- and $70-oil. He would by now have taken down the sanctions†imposed by the United Nations. “He would be a major state sponsor of terror. We also would have a situation where he would have resumed his W.M.D. programs.â€
Setting aside the simply false claims about the U.N. (from a man who pushed for the confirmation of a man who wanted to knock 10 floors off the U.N. headquarters), terrorist sponsorship and resumption of WMD programs are claims that have been repeatedly disproved, even by those in Cheney’s own party. Here’s the price of oil over the last nine years:
I wonder what could have happened in 2003 that shattered all the trend lines and sent the price of oil up 130%?
Leave it to Tim Russert, professional journalist, to fail to ask Dick about that.