The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank has done laudable work fact-checking the White House, but this shot at the Vice President is taken out of context at best:

As vice president, Cheney has always played the hard-line Cardinal Ratzinger to Bush’s sunny John Paul II. Before the war, Cheney asserted that Iraq had “reconstituted nuclear weapons.”

Here’s what I wrote at Spinsanity about the “reconstituted” quote:

Cheney and his aides later said he misspoke, and the evidence supports their claim. The Vice President said four other times in the interview that Saddam was pursuing nuclear weapons, not that Iraq already had them, and no one else in the administration ever claimed that Iraq had a nuclear weapon. Moreover, the statement makes no sense – “reconstituted nuclear weapons” carries the implausible implication that Saddam had nuclear weapons at one point, gave them up, and then rebuilt them.