Dick Cheney Quotes About Al Qaeda

Quotes about: Al Qaeda

• In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda, and his regime is no more.

  Dick Cheney

  Stupid, Mean, Mass Destruction

  Dick Cheney's speech for Bush-Cheney '04 in Austin, Texas, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. November 7, 2003.

• The biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that.

  Dick Cheney

  Mass Destruction, Iraq, Hussein

  "Dick Cheney enters the 'No Spin Zone'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. October 28, 2013.

• I think there's - the assumption seems to predominate on the other side that the reason there's been problems in the world is because of U.S. activity, U.S. conduct. We're the bad guys.We're the ones that lead people to become terrorists. We're the ones that generate the kind of criticism that has given al Qaeda an excuse to come attack the United States.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.

  Dick Cheney

  Government, Als, Connections

  "The World; What the Bush Administration Said". www.nytimes.com. June 20, 2004.

• His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists.

  Dick Cheney

  Iraq, Training, Levels

  Dick Cheney's speech at the Air National Guard Senior Leadership Conference in Denver, Colorado, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. December 2, 2002.

• When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry.

  Dick Cheney

  Reading, Rights, People

  www.nbcnews.com. February 15, 2009.

• We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.

  Dick Cheney

  Impact, Events, Nuclear

• The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part. These are people that were captured in the battlefield of Afghanistan or rounded up as part of the Al Qaeda network. We've already screened the detainees there and released a number, sent them back to their home countries. But what's left is hard core.

  Dick Cheney

  Country, Mean, Home

  "Guantánamo Detainees Are 'Bad People', Says Cheney". www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2005.

• It’s clearly established in terms of training, provision of bomb-making experts, training of people with respect to chemical and biological warfare capabilities, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Iraq for training and so forth.

  Dick Cheney

  Iraq, People, Training

• We're fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first, and hit us hard. ... Al Qaeda's leadership has said they have the right to kill four million Americans,... For nearly six years now, the United States has been able to defeat their attempts to attack us here at home. Nobody can guarantee that we won't be hit again.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Home, Fighting

  Vice President's Remarks at the United States Military Academy Commencement, West Point, New York, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 26, 2007.

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