Dick Cheney is dead wrong on where the 9/11 hijackers were from

In the midst of attacking Sen. Rand Paul’s foreign policy, Dick Cheney also made a curious and conveniently false statement about the home countries of the 9/11 hijackers. Did you catch it?

(In regards to Sen. Paul’s ‘isolationism.’) “That didn’t work in the 1930s, it sure as heck won’t work in the aftermath of 9/11 when 19 guys armed with airline tickets and box cutters came all the way from Afghanistan and killed 3,000 of our citizens.”

With all the hype about Afghanistan and Bin Laden, Dick Cheney probably thinks that Americans won’t remember that not a single one of the 15 9/11 hijackers hailed from Afghanistan. 15 of the 19 were citizens of Saudi Arabia. The others were from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Lebanon. I guess it’s more convenient to forget to say “Saudi Arabia” when you’re kissing and embracing that country’s leader year after year…

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