Cheney's Leaky Logic

From a speech the Vice President made at a military base today in New York: "Some have suggested by liberating Iraq from Saddam Hussein we simply stirred up a hornet's nest. They overlook a fundamental fact: We were not in Iraq in September 2001 and the terrorists hit us anyway." It's more of a fundamental non sequitur than it is a fact. "We were not in" Luxembourg either, but that wouldn't justify a subsequent invasion. A handful of fanatics attacked on 9/11, not a country. The Vice President and his team mistakenly poured jet fuel on the movement and the nation—more specifically the best and the brightest—is continuing to suffer the appalling consequences of their negligence.