Cheney: Iraq Invasion Right Thing to do

In spite of the fact that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, the Bush administration was right to invade that country, Vice President Dick Cheney said on NBC's Meet the Press.

President Bush would have ordered an invasion of Iraq even if the CIA had told him that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday.

In the build-up to the U.S. invasion in 2003, Bush and other administration leaders argued that Saddam should be removed from power because he had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and was actively seeking to build a nuclear weapon.

Subsequent investigations concluded that he did not have such weapons, and in an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Cheney acknowledged that, “clearly, the intelligence that said he did was wrong.”

If you watch the video, notice how often Cheney turns red when asked the hard questions.

One gets the feeling that he would have liked to "invade" Tim Russert, too.