Cheney: US Will Not Let Iran Go Nuclear

[sabra]

Source: AP

LEESBURG, Va. (AP) - The United States and other nations will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday.

``Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions,'' Cheney said in a speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Studies.

He said Iran's efforts to pursue technology that would allow it to build a nuclear weapon are obvious and that ``the regime continues to practice delay and deceit in an obvious effort to buy time.''

If Iran continues on its current course, Cheney said the U.S. and other nations are prepared to take action. The vice president made no specific reference to military action.

``We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon,'' he said.



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7013211,00.html

[mike_c]

1. stop me before I kill again....

This is a cry for help. :rofl:

[allisonthegreat]

2. Chaney full of

Horse do-do! I think all governments are interested in the oil that does not belong to anyone!

[EST]

3. Whether or not resorting to violence to stop Iran is a good idea,

having that crazy bastard at the helm makes me plenty nervous. His record of one hundred percent lies does not make me comfortable at all, nor feel any safer.

[Tiberius]

26. "Whether or not resorting to violence to stop Iran is a good idea"???

Uh, you seem to indicate that there's still a question in your head as to whether or not it's a good idea. It seems like a *really* bad idea to me. Once these things get started you cannot predict where they will go.

[0007]

54. Hummmmm

Getting the diseases confused

Mad Dog Disease
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA

[LynnTheDem]

4. Cheney was for nuclear Iran before he was against nuclear Iran.

Like george w bush, Cheney says what he means and means what he says. :eyes:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HAA20060306&articleId=2067

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/192908_cheney29.html

[allisonthegreat]

17. Oh dear

It would seem that a regional war is inevitable!

[SpikeTss]

25. Everyone should read this

This is truly outrageous!

And it makes you wonder why you don't read this in the major newspapers and magazines.
Aren't they supposed to inform about this?

[Amonester]

29. Just like Cheney was against invading Iraq ("legally")

before he was for invading Iraq (illegally).

Cheney must be impeached, and sued as soon as he's forced to step down.

[dickbearton]

35. Sue, hardly. Chaney should be impeached, convicted, and hung!

[aquart]

37. Hanged, damnit!

I don't care what the turncoat Oxford English Dictionary says. They've just given up.

Paintings are hung. Men are hanged. Lucky gay guys are hung.

[Amonester]

39. I'm for all of that too.

But I also want the Wilsons to get the A-hole (and *others* like A,B,L,R,and K) to pay for what they've done to them first!

[Fridays Child]

5. Cheney is the boy who cried weapons of mass destruction.

[peacetalksforall]

6. From the Guardian. Again. n/t

[peacetalksforall]

7. Who is going to stop him? One thing we know for sure, while he is

around there will be no investigations of his actions - one day we will learn that he is part of the suppliers that sold parts and materials to Iran for their "nuclear needs". If yes, Iran is participating in the duplicty.

Khan with Cheney/friends in the mix? Russia? China? North Korea - yeah maybe.

We need to know where Iran buys to better understand what's going on.

And tonight we have Valerie Plame who can't talk about that.

How did this country get so gory and secretive?

Halloween every minute of the day and night here in the United States of America.

Buildings fall down, floods 'happen', government trailers are parked empty - victims of the flood and poverty are piled up in little apartments or shelters, ice is driven all over the U.S. in a truck in August, bodies are left in the street for two weeeks, nuclear bombs are flown over the middle of the country ... lost, so they say, prisons are going up all over the country, private soldiers working for the State Dept make a fortune by killing Iraqis in the name of protecting a government, leaders in Washington giving Dick and George everything he wants, George becomes more delusionsal from being propped up by his handlers and by paying undeserved deference to him, and everyone runs from the big bad Halloween monster - the one who doesn't have to pretend.

The people here are screwed if the secrecy continues.

Thanks to our creator(s) for what we've learned so far.

Long live the brave.

[EVDebs]

8. Then why sandbag Plame's anti-Iran-nuke efforts ? Tought question, eh, Dick ?

When it was politically expedient to silence a critic they sabotage BrewsterJennings and Plame's non-proliferation work in a heartbeat. WTF ?

[City Lights]

13. Exactly. They need an Iranian "nuculer" boogie man.

The Dick of Death and his Little Wooden Boy need to be charged with treason.

[EVDebs]

14. Israel can more than hold its own with these guys. We aren't their waterboy.

[Amonester]

30. Yes. But Cheney's is interested in the theft of Iran's oil.

He stated that while he was confined with his co-conspirators at the PNAC asylum.

[MetaTrope]

15. The Guardian should have sidebarred the Plame story with this one

I guess they must be getting senile in their dotage.

[NYC]

18. Because peace is not profitable.

[rabies1]

27. She was going to ruin his plan so that he couldn't go to war.

She had to be stopped.
And her nosy little husband too.
No matter how it was done.
We're talking about working on the dark side if you will.
(rub hands together)
Heh Heh

[goclark]

9. Here we go with Gen. Cheney

He is such a great shooter, we know he will handle it by himself.

[Aviation Pro]

10. Who's US.....

....Shitstain Shoots-Guy-In-Face? Oh, you mean 'you,' asswipe motherfucker.

[everydayis911]

11. Only we can blow people up

We know how to do it right. They exposed Plame because they wanted this scenario. They wanted to cut those ties so they could put their own cronies in and say yes Iran is developing weapons. They have been working on this for years. All part of PNAC.

[laylah]

12. Excuse me but

FUCK HIM! Warmongering, pos!

[kineneb]

16. so, Dicky boy, grab your shotgun and go over there

leave the rest of us out of it. Have "fun", hope you enjoy high-altitude deserts.

Dicky, you do not speak for me.

[Trillo]

19. Then why'd your branch out Valerie Plame?

So your cronies could make some bucks?

[MnFats]

20. Jeez, Dick, be sure to bomb their brains out while Putin is there....

maybe we can have WWIII with the Russians after all......I'm sure some of OUR missles are still pointed in the right direction...

[bjobotts]

21. This from a man who has been wrong on everything. Be Paranoid

Cheney is insane...there is no longer any doubt.
We can live with a nuclear Iran the same way we live with a nuclear India and Pakistan, and Israel. and Saudi Arabia. Iran is the only country in the region without a nuke.
Keep in mind that Iran refused to use WMD against Iraq even when Iraq was using them against Iran.
We would have used WMD if Iraq used them on us but Iran did not. They claim it was "inhumane" and would not do it.
Nukes have nothing to do with why Cheney wants to attack Iran. They are after the oil rights and always have been. Iraq was an excuse to get them closer to Iran's oil.
We won't be fooled again. But it may not be enough to stop Cheney/Bush/ and Pelosi...yes Pelosi, who could have prevented the mass murder of thousands of Iranians by impeaching Cheney and Bush and by preventing a war funding bill from coming to the floor for a vote. She refuses to do what is necessary to stop this administration from advancing their war so she is complicit in it and just as guilty.

[bjobotts]

22. Not one word as to the consequences or the aftermath...WWIII

Our President and Vice president should be doing whatever they can to keep us out of a world war yet they do everything to get us into one instead. F*$king yahoo cowboys didn't learn anything from Iraq or Little Big Horn.

[bdamomma]

50. it is all about the that oil, cheney must shoot it up in his veins.

Pakistan has nuclear capability and we are friends with them, what sick logic these neo cons have.

[MasonJar]

23. I still think Plame was outed because of Cheney's Iran/Khan connections.

The Ambassador was just a reasonable ploy to fool the foolish. The old two birdie thingy!

[EVDebs]

33. Our lala-rawraw broke much of this with Greg Palast too. Related DU post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2096028

[Tom Joad]

24. most any other nation with a nuke is fine by the US elite. Hillary/Cheney say little about nuclear

proliferation in general and they are damn sure they will not advocate general nuclear disarmament.

gotta be another way.
(read my sig line, Cheney!)

[NoodleyAppendage]

28. "cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions" well said...TRAITOR.

Too bad you and your Repuke/Neocon ilk lack the fundamental introspection necessary to understand that your criminal administration has become "a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions." Though, your "grandest ambitions" are not to blow up citizenry, but to TERRORIZE your own citizenry with over-blown threats to justify your grab at power and reducing this country to a DICTATORSHIP.

F*CK YOU, YOU TRAITOROUS BLACK-HEARTED BASTARD.

[krispos42]

31. Cheney is right

Gawd, I never thought I'd say that...

:puke:

:beer:

Ah, better. Okay, let me explain...

In this strictly limited sense, Cheney is right.

Iran has signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. So the world has every right to keep nuclear weapons from being developed by Iran by whatever means necessary.

Having said that...

There is no evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. There is evidence that Iran is developing nuclear power, which is entirely different and quite legitimate. In other words, despite inflammatory rhetoric, there is no evidence that the 'course' Iran is on is anything but nuclear power plants.

Furthermore, since Cheney is directly responsible for DESTROYING THE INTELLIGENCE-GATHERING ORGANIZATION THAT WAS MONITORING IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM TO BEGIN WITH (*cough cough treason cough*) and that he's so frothingly rabid to go to war with Iran to fulfill Pax Americana, I don't think he's really qualified to talk about this. Seeing as how he happily lies us into wars and all that.

In other words, HE SHOULD SHUT THE FUCK UP and resign. Then be hanged for treason. Plenty of tall yardarms and ropes on the USS Constitution, if I may make a humble suggestion.


And now, I'll put on my Nomex boxers.

[slick8790]

32. NOT LET THEM? WHAT'S HE GONNA DO, BOMB THEM AND START A REGIONAL WAR?

...Wait...oh no....

[MarkR1717]

55. We Should Help Iran get Nuclear Bombs......

Shouldn't we? After all that would be fair, and would make the world a safer place, wouldn't it? I think I get it now.

[TechBear_Seattle]

34. "Will not allow." Can you say, "arrogant and full of shit"? n/t

[sakabatou]

36. Instead, we'll just make the land nuclear

:nuke:

[Gregorian]

38. The military is going to have to stand down.

We all know that Iraq was not a threat. And we all know where that ended up.

There is only one way, in lieu of impeachment, that will stop this. Our forces are going to have to be told to stand fast. Do not advance. Generals will have to dig in their heels.

I don't know where Wes Clark stands on this kind of thinking. I want to say he would agree, but I doubt it. But the alternative is murder. For both sides. And of our economy.

Of course I am assuming they mean military action. Even "surgical".

[Julius Civitatus]

40. Cheney raises anti-Iran rhetoric

Source: Asia Times

Cheney raises anti-Iran rhetoric
By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON - In the harshest speech against Iran given by a top George W Bush administration official to date, Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday warned the Islamic Republic of "serious consequences" if it did not freeze its nuclear program and accused it of "direct involvement in the killings of Americans".

"Given the nature of Iran's rulers, the declarations of the Iranian president, and the trouble the regime is causing throughout the region - including the direct involvement in the killing of Americans- our country and the entire international community cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its most aggressive ambitions," Cheney warned in a major policy address to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP).

"The Iranian regime needs to know that if it stays on its present course, the international community is prepared to impose serious consequences," he added. "The United States joins other nations in sending a clear message: we will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon."

In his nearly 30-minute speech, an uncompromising defense of the Bush administration's record in the Middle East, Cheney also claimed that, with Washington's "surge" strategy working well against al-Qaeda in Iraq, the "greatest strategic threat that Iraq's Shi'ites face today in consolidating their rightful role in Iraq's new democracy is the subversive activities of the Iranian regime". (...)

Read more: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ23Ak05.html

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Seems like ol' man Cheney took time from his schedule of shooting small critters and old men in their faces, came out of his undisclosed bunker, and raised the war rhetoric. This is starting to feel like early 2003, all over again...

[wtmusic]

41. Dick, if you would just go away

the world would be a much nicer place. 'Kay?

[Gman]

45. The world would be a much nicer

and safer place.

[acmavm]

42. Uh, where oh where are our elected reps at while cheney's doing a

replay of Shock and Awe? (As an aside, what cute name do you think they've come up with for the next slaughter of innocent people?)

Someone needs to remind him that he does NOT have the authority to declare another war, even with his hand up Chimpy's butt (like a Charlie McCarthy puppet). Why are the not standing up for their rights as well as our own???

[no_hypocrisy]

43. The latest shot in our international pissing contest.

Putin last week "warned" this administration not to mess with Iran.

[angstlessk]

44. Wait fust a jucking moment...vilence is down 70%, AQI is defeated in Iraq

so now we need to invade Iran??? what our soldiers are getting bored in Iraq?

[leftchick]

46. Note the venue

the hardline Israelis/AIPAC and assorted Lobbies are really putting on the war show aren't they? No wonder Hillary is so hawkish and neocon like these days.....


<snip>

The forum chosen by Cheney to deliver his speech was in many ways as significant as its timing and context. WINEP, a generally hawkish think-tank, was founded some 20 years ago by the research director of the highly influential lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and is funded by many of the same donors.

AIPAC, in turn, has led a high-powered effort to persuade Congress to impose tough new sanctions against Iran and foreign companies that do business with it, and, more recently, to have Tehran's Revolutionary Guard declared a "terrorist" organization.

As Cheney himself noted Sunday, his own national security adviser, John Hannah, once served as WINEP's deputy director. While WINEP does not take specific positions on pending legislation or policies, it is generally regarded as at least sympathetic to AIPAC's efforts and often provides the research AIPAC uses in its lobbying activities.

Cheney's speech was remarkable on several counts, beginning with the fact that it came less than a week after Gates gave a much more restrained presentation on US Middle East policy and the threat posed by Iran to a yet more-hawkish pro-Israel group, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.

[bdamomma]

47. I hope Putin has some more choice words for Cheney.

Cheney is out of control!!!!

[Amonester]

48. I'm sure those words can be translated into:

"Go F**k Yourself, Five Deferments' Dick." from Russian.

[robertpaulsen]

49. What possible motive could Cheney have for such bellicose rhetoric?

Well, here's one:

Steep decline in oil production brings risk of war and unrest, says new study
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3037643

And for a more personal motive besides Peak Oil, here's another:

American Judas 2nd Edition: INVESTIGATE CHENEY & UNRAVEL THE CABAL
http://americanjudas.blogspot.com/2007/03/american-judas-2nd-edition-investigate.html

AMERICAN JUDAS: 1st Edition
http://americanjudas.blogspot.com/2007/01/american-judas-1st-edition.html

[bdamomma]

51. oh god, I hate cheney, what an evil evil man.

no question how he just hates America and Americans.

[dkofos]

52. And he doesn't care how many people he has to kill to make it so!!

[Amonester]

53. And the thing is, no matter how many people he will get killed...

he will never make it so...

(unless, of course, he kills everybody breathing on this planet, after the nuclear winter to come)

They didn't take time to learn about that "small problem" when he was co-conspirating at the PNAC Asylum.