The Dick Cheney hunting incident occurred on February 11, 2006, when then U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney shot Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Texas attorney, while participating in a quail hunt on a ranch in Kenedy County, Texas. Both Cheney and Whittington call the incident an accident.

In November 2002, KBR was tasked to plan oil well firefighting in Iraq, and in February 2003 was issued a contract to conduct the work. Critics contend that it was a no-bid contract, awarded due to Dick Cheney's position as vice president. Concern was also expressed that the contract could allow KBR to pump and distribute Iraqi oil. Others contend, however, that this was not strictly a no-bid contract, and was invoked under a contract that KBR won "in a competitive bid process." The contract, referred to as LOGCAP, is a con...

What a coincidence! In Utah, a member from Utah who voted for the bill, he was against it and then he was for it. And what a coincidence, his brother just got named to be a federal judge. How do you make those decisions?

Dick Cheney in 2007 continued to make the false allegation that Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11: ...the fact of the matter is, in terms of threats to the United States from al Qaeda, for example, attacks on the United States -- they didn't need an excuse. We weren't in Iraq when they hit us on 9/11 .

Dick Cheney falsely implied links of well known al Qaeda terrorists to Iraq: You've got to remember that the Osama bin Laden-types, the al Qaeda-types, the Zarqawi-types that have been active in Iraq are betting that ultimately they can break the United States' will .

Dick Cheney speaking at the National Press Club about Iraq falsely claimed that I guess if I look back on it now, I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered . In fact, military and intelligence agencies repeatedly warned of the threats, but these were ignored.

Dick Cheney falsely claimed in 2004: This was a place [Iraq] where if there was a potential nexus between the terrorists and one hand and access to knowledge and the technology of WMD on the other, it's Iraq.

The Iraq Survey Group report in 2004 contradicted Cheney's assertion that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted his nuclear weapons program, finding that Iraq's ability to reconstitute a nuclear weapons program progressively decayed after the Persian Gulf War ended in 1991.