An oldie but a goodie: Cheney and Rumsfeld tried to sell nukes to Iran!

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of course, that was when their leader was "a son-of-a-bitch, but at least he's our son-of-a-bitch", but still...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3983-2005Mar26.html

Lacking direct evidence, Bush administration officials argue that Iran's nuclear program must be a cover for bomb-making. Vice President Cheney recently said, "They're already sitting on an awful lot of oil and gas. Nobody can figure why they need nuclear as well to generate energy."

Yet Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and outgoing Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz held key national security posts when the Ford administration made the opposite argument 30 years ago.

Ford's team endorsed Iranian plans to build a massive nuclear energy industry, but also worked hard to complete a multibillion-dollar deal that would have given Tehran control of large quantities of plutonium and enriched uranium -- the two pathways to a nuclear bomb. Either can be shaped into the core of a nuclear warhead, and obtaining one or the other is generally considered the most significant obstacle to would-be weapons builders....

"I don't think the issue of proliferation came up," Henry A. Kissinger, who was Ford's secretary of state, said in an interview for this article.

Indeed. The issue of proliferation only seems to come up when it's the bad guys (as defined by us, of course) who want to proliferate.

Anyone else reminded of this?

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1. If only we had a picture of this one...

Photos are powerful...

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2. Even if we did, Rummy or Cheney would be shaking hands with the Shah

not Ayatollah Khomeini, much less Ahmadinejad.

The Handshake is so powerful because it shows one of our top guys shaking hands with someone we later demonized.