Thursday, November 17, 2005
Dick Cheney lambasts Iraq critics
BBC NEWS | Middle East | "US Vice-President Dick Cheney has launched a vitriolic attack on politicians accusing the White House of misusing intelligence to invade Iraq.
Opposition Democrats were guilty of spreading 'cynical and pernicious falsehoods', he said.
As a principal architect of the war, the vice-president has come in for a good deal of personal criticism.
The Democrats' John Kerry later said it was hard to name a Bush official with 'less credibility on Iraq'.
Another senior Democrat, Senior Harry Reid, dismissed the vice-president's 'tired rhetoric'.
'Political attacks do nothing to get the job done in Iraq,' he said."
