On the other hand, Cheney's claim -- that he never suggested a connection between Iraq and the September 11 attacks -- is false. On September 14, 2003, Cheney said the following on NBC's Meet the Press: "If we're successful in Iraq, if we can stand up a good representative government in Iraq, that secures the region so that it never again becomes a threat to its neighbors or to the United States, so it's not pursuing weapons of mass destruction, so that it's not a safe haven for terrorists, now we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9-11."
http://mediamatters.org/items/200410060006

Moreover, Cheney has been one of the administration's strongest proponents of a piece of highly disputed intelligence about 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta. "It's been pretty well confirmed that he did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack," Cheney said on Meet the Press in December 2001.

(After the 9/11 commission report disputed the reliability of this intelligence — stating "No evidence has been found that Atta was in the Czech Republic in April 2001" — Cheney denied ever having said the intelligence was "pretty well confirmed." "No, I never said that," Cheney said.)
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Politics/Vote2004/vp_fact_check_041006-1.html

Cheney & Edwards have met on several occasions, even appearing on Meet the Press together.(How much time does Cheney have for Democrats BTW?) Sorry guys, it would have been a good line if it had had any basis in truth.

So Cheney told some whoppers with conviction, practice makes perfect I guess.

Fair play!