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Christian Grantham was a student activist in the late 90s and later was a consultant to domestic policy forums for the Clinton Administration as well as events for HRC and GLAAD.
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October 06, 2004

As last night's Vice Presidential Debate illustrated, the Bush Administration's most formidable opponent in the debate over Iraq is itself. On one side of the Bush Administration you have the CIA, Cabinet officials, former Generals, Iraqi Administrators, both U.S. weapons inspectors, and a list of Republican leaders in Congress. On the other side you have Vice President Dick Cheney and those he continues to snow with lies.

Here is a big lie told by Vice President Dick Cheney last night:

"The senator has got his facts wrong. I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror."
[Transcript: Vice Presidential Debate - Washington Post - 10-06-04]

Yet on Meet The Press in March 2003, Dick Cheney clearly states a connection between Iraq and those who attacked us on 9-11.

"We know [Saddam Hussein's] out trying once again to produce nuclear weapons and we know that he has a long-standing relationship with various terrorist groups, including the al-Qaeda organization."
[Meet The Press - Dick Cheney - 03-16-03]

More recently on Meet The Press in September 2003, Dick Cheney continues to assert a connection between Iraq and those who attacked the United States, defying every conceivable expert and agency at the behest of the United States of America. This pattern of rejecting facts, and then lying about it, is the heart of President Bush's foreign policy.

"We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the ’90s, that it involved training, for example, on BW and CW, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Baghdad to get trained on the systems that are involved. The Iraqis providing bomb-making expertise and advice to the al-Qaeda organization."
[Meet The Press - Dick Cheney - 09-14-03]

Dick Cheney's lies didn't stop there. Last Night, Dick Cheney said the VP debate was the first time he had ever met Senator John Edwards. Oh really?

"Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the president of Senate, the presiding officer. I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session. The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight," Cheney told Edwards during the debate.

On Feb. 1, 2001, the vice president thanked Edwards by name at a Senate prayer breakfast and sat beside him during the event. (watch video)

On April 8, 2001, Cheney and Edwards shook hands when they met off-camera during a taping of NBC's "Meet the Press," moderator Tim Russert said Wednesday on "Today."

On Jan. 8, 2003, the two met when the first-term North Carolina senator accompanied Elizabeth Dole to her swearing-in by Cheney as a North Carolina senator, Edwards aides also said.
[Meeting Was Not First for Cheney, Edwards - AP - 10-06-04]

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