Cheney lied about nukes... he knew the tubes found were for conventional weapons and told Colin Powell to lie at the UN....That was Bushes proof to go to war... In reality he knew of the chemical weapons....But there is an even more striking instance of the United States ignoring use of the chemical weapons that killed tens of thousands of people — during the grinding Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s. As documented in 2002 by Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs, the Reagan administration knew full well it was selling materials to Iraq that was being used for the manufacture of chemical weapons, and that Iraq was using such weapons, but U.S. officials were more concerned about whether Iran would win rather than how Iraq might eke out a victory. Dobbs noted that Iraq’s chemical weapons’ use was “hardly a secret, with the Iraqi military issuing this warning in February 1984: ”The invaders should know that for every harmful insect, there is an insecticide capable of annihilating it . . . and Iraq possesses this annihilation insecticide.”

As Dobbs wrote:


A review of thousands of declassified government documents and interviews with former policymakers shows that U.S. intelligence and logistical support played a crucial role in shoring up Iraqi defenses against the “human wave” attacks by suicidal Iranian troops. The administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush authorized the sale to Iraq of numerous items that had both military and civilian applications, including poisonous chemicals and deadly biological viruses, such as anthrax and bubonic plague

I did. It was a very complex decision entered into by 10 agencies who voted. Hundreds of people involved

This polarized debate was formalized, but not resolved, in October 2002 with the release of a Director of Central Intelligence’s National Intelligence Estimate (NIE). In this process, roughly ten individual intelligence agencies each have one vote, which pitted one agency against the other in a drive for a majority vote. The CIA won a majority, receiving the support of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and several military intelligence agencies.

Not quite as simple as " Cheney Lied"