[…] It was Cheney, more than anyone, who promoted the false idea that Saddam Hussein had WMDs. “There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction,” he said in 2002. “There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us.”
Reader — there was doubt.
According to Hans Blix, head of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, Cheney attempted to intimidate him, threatening that he would “discredit inspections” if they did not produce results. For Cheney and his accomplices, it appears, Blix and the inspectors were not there to see if there was cause for an invasion — they were there to provide an excuse. […]
Mr Cheney also played a major role in the implementation of “enhanced interrogation techniques”, otherwise known as torture, which inflicted waterboarding and other forms of cruelty on terror suspects. Cheney was unapologetic — even saying that he had “no problem” with the fact that there were suspects who were tortured who were later found to have been innocent. Läs artikel