Cheney: "If We Had It To Do Over Again, We'd Do Exactly The Same Thing"...

Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on Meet The Press yesterday to answer questions on Iraq, Afghanistan, and the administration's new detainee policy. After being forced to admit that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, the Vice President was asked whether he would still have invaded Iraq knowing that there were no WMDs. Cheney responded:

"The world is better off because Saddam Hussein is in jail instead of in power in Baghdad. It was the right thing to do and if we had it to do over again, we'd do exactly the same thing."

Rebuffing host Tim Russert's questions about the continuing violence in Iraq, Cheney attempted to make the insurgency seem positive, referencing Iraqis' willingness to "step up and take on the responsibility for their own fate." He continued to insist on the link between Iraq and al-Qaeda and claimed not to have read the Senate Intelligence Report disproving the connection. The Vice President also defended the administration's new detainee policy and the use of secret CIA prisons.

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