Cheney Is Adamant on Iraq 'Evidence': "Vice President Dick Cheney revived two controversial assertions about the war in Iraq on Thursday, declaring there was "overwhelming evidence" that Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Al Qaeda and that two trailers discovered after the war were proof of Iraq's biological weapons programs.
The vice president stood by positions that others in the Bush administration have largely abandoned in recent months, as preliminary analysis of the trailers has been called into question and new evidence — including a document found with Hussein when he was captured — cast doubt on theories that Iraq and Al Qaeda collaborated.
... 'There's overwhelming evidence there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government,' Cheney said in an interview on National Public Radio. 'I am very confident that there was an established relationship there.'
That assertion appeared at odds with the recent words of other senior administration officials, including Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who said in an interview this month that he had 'not seen smoking-gun, concrete evidence' of connections between Iraq and Al Qaeda."
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