| Following 9/11, Cheney was instrumental in providing a primary justification for a renewed war against Iraq. Cheney helped shape Bush's approach to the "War on Terror", making numerous public statements alleging Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction,[ and making several personal visits to CIA headquarters, where he questioned mid-level agency analysts on their conclusions. Cheney continued to allege links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, even though President Bush received a classified President's Daily Brief on September 21, 2001 indicating the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the September 11 attacks and that "there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda". Furthermore, in 2004, the 9/11 Commission concluded that there was no "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and al Qaeda. -From Wikipedia
간단히 줄여서 해석하자면,
9/11사태 이후로 부쉬(Bush)는 '사담 후세인'과 '알카에다'와 연관되어 있지 않다는 부리핑을 받았음에도, Cheney는 도리어 '알카에다'의 배후에 그가 있고, 또한 "대량 파괴의 무기"를 보유하고 있다고 우겼다. 이로써 부쉬는 "공포의 테레에 전쟁을 해야 하는 정책'을 채택하게 했다고. 그러나 후에 들어난 믿을 만한 소식통들은 그러한 연관관계와 Mass Destruction Weapon이 전혀 존재하지 않았다는 결론을 내렸다. -위키백과에서 | |