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“just yesterday President Bush in the cabinet room said, ``This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda.'' Really? Let me read what National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said in September, 2002, ``We clearly know that there were in the past and have been contacts between senior Iraqi officials and members of al Qaeda going back for actually quite a long time.'' Mr. Speaker, 1 year later the National Security Adviser in September 2003 said, ``We have never claimed that Saddam Hussein had either direction or control on 9/11.'' On Monday night, Vice President Cheney, who has long maintained and repeatedly has asserted that a collaborative relationship existed between Iraq and al Qaeda said he, Saddam Hussein, ``was a patron of terrorism'' and that he had ``long-established ties with al Qaeda.'' This is the fourth or fifth time he has asserted this relationship, or members of the administration have. There is at least one thing we know about the Vice President: He is consistent, he is wrong, and he has been consistently wrong on this subject.”