And Now some words from Our President, Dick Cheney:

1. "[I] would have obviously been happy to serve had I been called." —March 1989 Senate Confirmation Hearing for Secretary of Defense
Truth: Stating that he had "other priorities", Dick Cheney did everything he could to avoid serving, including applying for five deferments. It worked. He never served any time in the military.

2. "[Iraq is] the geographic base for the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11." —September 14, 2003, Meet the Press
Truth: The September 21, 2001, Presidents Daily Briefing (PDB), which Dick Cheney received, said there was no link between the Iraqi government and the 9/11 attacks, a finding confirmed by every major investigation of the attacks since.

3. "I continue to believe—I think there's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between al-Qaeda and the Iraqi government. . . . I'm very confident that there was an established relationship there." —January 22, 2004, NPR's Morning Edition
Truth: The same PDB said there was no Iraqi link to al-Qaeda, a finding also confirmed by every major investigation since.

4. "My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." —March 16, 2003, NEC's Meet the Press
Truth: The U.S. military personnel who entered Iraq have not been greeted as liberators. Instead, they have been the victims of an increasingly bloody insurgency that has already killed more than 2,300 U.S. soldiers and wounded an additional 17,000.

5. "I can say that we, in fact, are consistent with the commitments of the United States that we don't engage in torture. And we don't." —December 18, 2005, ABC News Nightline
Truth: Retired U.S. Army Colonel Larry Wilkerson, who served as Colin Powell's chief of staff, told CNN on November 20, 2005, "There's no question in my mind that we did [torture]. There's no question in my mind that we may be still doing it. There's no question in my mind where the philosophical guidance and the flexibility in order to do so originated—in the vice president of the United States' office. His implementer in this case was Donald Rumsfeld and the Defense Department."

6. "I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had, now, for over three years." —September 21, 2003, NEC's Meet the Press
Truth: During his tenure as vice president, Dick Cheney has been receiving deferred compensation from Halliburton and holds company stock options valued at nearly $8 million. Although the Cheneys have assigned future profits from their stock options to charity, the deferred compensation creates a potential conflict of interest because if the company goes bankrupt, it will be unable to pay.

7. "I had a firm policy that we wouldn't do anything in Iraq, even arrangements that were supposedly legal." (Of his time as Halliburton CEO.) —July 30, 2000, This Week, ABC News
Truth: The Washington Post reported on June 23, 2001: "According to oil industry executives and confidential United Nations records, however, Halliburton held stakes in two firms that signed contracts to sell more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while Dick Cheney was chairman and chief executive officer of the Dallas-based company."

8. "I don't have anything to do with the contracting process, and I wouldn't know how to manipulate the process if I wanted to." —Fox News Radio, January 2004
Truth: On June 14, 2004, the Los Angeles Times reported that the vice president's office helped overrule an army lawyer's blocking of a $7 billion no-bid contract to Halliburton in March 2003. Regarding a $1.9 billion contract in 2002, The New York Times wrote on July 14, 2004: "The Pentagon sought and received the assents of senior Bush administration officials, including the vice president's chief of staff, before hiring the Halliburton Company to develop secret plans for restoring Iraq's oil facilities."

9. "The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight." (Of his opponent, Senator John Edwards.) —October 5, 2004, Vice-Presidential Debates
Truth: As video footage and photographs that played endlessly in the days following the debate showed, Dick Cheney had met Edwards at least three times prior—at a prayer breakfast in 2001, at Elizabeth Dole's swearing-in ceremony in 2003, and backstage at Meet the Press—and, the odds are, many other times that weren't caught on camera.

10. "I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." —June 20, 2005, Larry King Live
Truth: In the months that have followed, the insurgency in Iraq has flared to bloodier, more violent heights.

11. "No. I never said that." —June 17, 2004, CNBC (About whether he ever said that it was "pretty well confirmed" that a meeting took place between 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and Iraqi intelligence.)
Truth: On Meet the Press, December 9, 2001, Dick Cheney told Tim Russert, "It's been pretty well confirmed that [Mohamed Atta] did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April."

12. "Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy." —April 30, 2001, Annual Meeting of the Associated Press
Truth: On the heels of the large bulk of scientific research, government scientists used the results of a three-year study to show that a conservation program sponsored by the White House could accomplish both a decrease in dependency on fossil fuels and a reduction in pollution.

13. "The amount of land affected by oil production [in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] would be two thousand acres, less than one-fifth the size of Dulles International Airport." —April 30, 2001, Annual Meeting of the Associated Press
Truth: Drilling for oil isn't a surgical activity that damages only the land upon which drilling takes place. Dick Cheney ignores the fact that most of the damage comes from creating the miles of roads and pipelines that will run through the protected lands to serve the drilling. The vice president is also being deceptive when he implies that all of the drilling will take place in one concentrated spot. In fact, the U.S. Geological Survey predicts the ANWR drilling is "expected to occur as several accumulations rather than a single large accumulation."

14. "I can tell you that the government had absolutely nothing to do with it." (In response to Senator Joseph Lieberman's comment "I'm pleased to see, Dick, that you're better off than you were eight years ago.") —October 5, 2000, Vice-Presidential Debate
Truth: As Jane Mayer's February 16, 2004, piece in The New Yorker details: "In fact, despite having spent years championing the private sector and disparaging big government, Dick Cheney devoted himself at Halliburton to securing government funds. In the five years before Dick Cheney joined Halliburton, the company received a hundred million dollars in government credit guarantees. During Dick Cheney's tenure, this amount jumped to $1.5 billion."

15. "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." —August 26, 2002, Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention
Truth: Despite years of searching since the invasion Dick Cheney advocated, no weapons of mass destruction have ever been found in Iraq.