August 26, 2002 was the day I heard Cheney on the car radio as he conducted his lying spree about Iraq’s WMD capabilities at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention. And I nearly coughed up my research.
Not September 8, 2002.
On September 8, 2002, Cheney and war-criminal-colleague Condaleeza Rice (the one punished with a cushy job at Stanford) made their infamous appearance on Sunday TV “news” shows to spout gibberish about smoking mushroom clouds.