Kerry takes on Cheney

Boston.com:

--Bush said Iraq had a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical and biological weapons, but the U.S. Air Force disagreed "and the Air Force's dissent was kept secret, even as the president publicly made the opposite case before the vote.

"Congress wasn't told that," Kerry told reporters at his Boston office, a line he would repeat after outlining each charge.

--Bush and Cheney told Congress asserted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein could launch a chemical or biological attack in under one hour, but they did not clear it with the CIA, "which mistrusted the source so much they refused to include it in the National Intelligence Estimate."

--The administration said Saddam was attempting to acquire nuclear fuel for weapons, even though the CIA told it three times in writing and verbally that was not true.

--Bush said Iraq had trained al Qaeda members in bombmaking and the use of poison and deadly gases, but the Defense Intelligence Agency had previously concluded that the source was a fabricator.

"The fact is that they're now trying to rewrite the rationale for the administration going into Iraq," Kerry said. "Instead they really ought to be trying to fix the problems that they've created with their incompetence over the last few years."

Despite how you feel about Kerry, it's nice to see a prominet Democrat come forward and refute Cheney point by point.