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Saddam Hussein
Dick Cheney, always wrong

He said Saddam Hussein had "reconstituted nuclear weapons."  He said Saddam was working with al-Qaida. He predicted U.S. troops occupying Iraq would be "greeted as liberators." Six months in to the occupation, after things went bad, he said there was nothing wrong with our postwar strategy. In 2005, he said the Iraqi insurgency was "in its last throes."  If Dick Cheney were a student, he would have flunked the course. But he's proof that if you rise high enough, some people will listen to you no matter how many times you prove your stupidity and dishonesty. Dan Quayle, who was vice president eight years before Cheney, had a reputation as an...