Dick Cheney, perhaps affected by the thin air at "Altitude Restaurant" in Sydney, the site of his interview with ABC (US) News --
Q Is it getting harder for them, though? You see the latest spate of helicopter downings, the military says this seems to be a new strategy to take down helicopters. We've seen the use apparently of chemical bombs now in the last week in Iraq. Is it getting harder?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: It's just the terrorists doing what terrorists always do, adjusting and adapting their strategies. We can do the same obviously, adjust and adapt. The chemical weapons they're using aren't very sophisticated at this point. What they've done is apparently put some tanks with chlorine in them together with conventional explosives ...
Anyone care to speculate what the portrayal would have been if it was Saddam Hussein's army that was sticking explosives to a chlorine tank? Sort of like how weather balloons became a mobile weapons lab.
[The rest of the interview is broken into nice bite-size chunks by Dan Froomkin]
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