Cheney says Iraq war makes US, world safer from terrorists:

"Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday repeated his assertion that ''long-established ties' existed between the former Iraqi dictator and the terrorist network.

Cheney offered a broad assessment of the Bush administration's fight against terrorism, saying that President Bush had made the world safer by taking ''relentless action' and launching ''a broad and sustained war on terrorist networks around the globe.'

Cheney, addressing Republican supporters at the National D-Day Museum here, also leveled implicit criticism at Bush's predecessor, former President Clinton.

''Consider for a moment how matters stood at the time when President Bush and I were sworn into office on January 20th, 2001,' he said. ''Terrorists were on the offensive around the world, emboldened by many years of unanswered attacks. Repeatedly, they had struck America with little cost or consequence.'"