Senator Edwards: Yes, Mr. Vice President, there is no connection between the attacks of Sept. 11 and Saddam Hussein. The 9/11 commission has said it. Your own secretary of state has said it. And you’ve gone around the country suggesting that there is some connection. There’s not.
Vice President Cheney: The senator’s got his fact wrong. I have not suggested there’s a connection between Iraq and 9/11.
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Vice President Cheney: It strikes me that that is absolutely the heart of what needs to be done from the standpoint of education. It’s also important as we go forward in the next term we want to be able to take what we’ve done for elementary education and move it into secondary education. It’s working. We’ve seen reports now of a reduction in the achievement gap between majority students and minority students. We’re making significant progress.
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Vice President Cheney: 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.
Turns out this isn't true at all. There's even a picture.
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Vice President Cheney: ... So the story I think is a good one and the data he’s using is old data. It’s from 2003. It doesn’t include any of the gains that we’ve made in the last year. We’ve added 1.7 million jobs to the economy.
This one is not technically a lie, but it is misleading.
More misrepresentations from the Washington Post:
Cheney suggested that an agreement had been reached on debt relief for Iraq, saying that "the allies have stepped forward and agreed to reduce and forgive Iraqi debt to the tune of nearly $80 billion, by one estimate." While there are reports of some sort of agreement, no plan has been made public. Cheney also said that allies had contributed $14 billion in "direct aid." Actually, $13 billion was pledged, but only $1 billion has arrived.Cheney also said Iraqi security forces have "taken almost 50 percent of the casualties in operations in Iraq, which leaves the U.S. with 50 percent, not 90 percent." The United States does not keep track of Iraqi casualties, either civilian or in the security services. Recently, a senior U.S. official in Baghdad estimated that 750 Iraqi policemen have been killed but has no estimate of those wounded. The United States as of yesterday has had 1,061 deaths and 7,730 wounded.
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Cheney said Kerry once vowed to allow a veto by the United Nations over U.S. troops. This refers to a statement made nearly 35 years ago, when Kerry gave an interview to the Harvard Crimson, 10 months after he had returned from the Vietnam War angry and disillusioned by his experiences there.
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Cheney continued to charge that Kerry voted 98 times to raise taxes. But factcheck.org -- a nonpartisan group Cheney cited during the debate as a fair data checker -- says nearly half were not for tax increases per se and many others were on procedural motions.
UPDATE: And even more lies: here and here.
