Meanwhile in Washington Vice President Dick Cheney spoke Monday at the American Enterprise Institute and warned against the withdrawal of U.S. troops. “Would the United States and other free nations be better off or worse off with Zarqawi, bin Laden and Zawahiri in control of Iraq?,” Cheney said. “A precipitous withdrawal from Iraq would be a victory for the terrorists, an invitation to further violence against free nations and a terrible blow to the future security of the United States of America.” Cheney also accused war critics of “corrupt and shameless” revisionism for suggesting the White House mislead the nation into the Iraq war. He claimed it was utterly false that President Bush distorted, hyped or fabricated pre-war information.