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I have seen Cheney do so. I have no interest in dancing to your windbag; you may look it up yourself. The conflation of 9-11 with generalized fear and with Iraq was persistently presented by Bush, by Cheney, and by Rice in rhetorical flips and suggestions designed to establish the relationship. How else do you explain the fact that by survey at the peak of Bush's saber rattling, over 45% of the US believed there was a link between them?

Slip-sliding with broad generalizations is one of the Bush administrations major kit pieces.

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