'Cheney created Iran as a menace' [VIDEO]

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 12:02 PM on January 22, 2007.

According to Lawrence Wilkerson, a former aid to Colin Powell, Cheney told a moderate, pre-Ahmadinejad Iran, to take their proposal and shove it when they offered "to help the United States stabilize Iraq and end its military support for Hezbollah and Hamas." (video coming soon...)

He said he "wouldn't talk to evil."

In a heated post, Juan Cole lays out the basic structure behind the rise of a more radical Iran as the direct result of American refusals to help the reformist president, Mohammad Khatami.

Calling Cheney "the most fascistic high official in US government in history," Cole points out that it was the Cheney office that not only refused this overture (which would've created a far, far safer world) but also outed our own CIA agent working to gain knowledge of Iran's possible nuclear ambitions.

I think "traitor" is a fair and balanced term for him. Cole thinks so:

Cheney is the much bigger threat to the integrity of the US constitution than any foreign force. He should be impeached. If lying about a tawdry affair that did not even get to third base is grounds for impeachment, then lying us into a war, slapping Iran's overtures away and setting the stage for another war, and outing a CIA operative certainly are.

Tagged as: iran, iraq, hezbollah, cheney, hamas

Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.