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Dick Cheney Desperately Wants to Bomb Iran

Posted by Satyam Khanna, Think Progress at 8:45 AM on May 13, 2009.


Cheney said the only way for Obama's diplomacy with Iran to work is if Obama also threatens to bomb the country.

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Yesterday, former Vice President Cheney “swung quietly” through New York City to watch Liz Cheney, his daughter and a former State Department official, debate Iran policy. Continuing his long advocacy for military strikes to halt Iran’s nuclear program, Cheney said at a dinner after the debate that the only way for President Obama’s diplomacy with Iran to work is if Obama also threatens to bomb the country:

The former Vice President characterized the Iranian goal in negotiations on ending that country’s nuclear program as mere stalling for time, and the Europeans as trying to “restrain the U.S.” from military action. “Everybody’s in a giant conspiracy to achieve a different objective than the one we want to achieve,” Cheney said. The negotiations are “bound to fail unless we are perceived as very credible” in threatening military action against Iran, he said.

“If they believe the threat of military force is on the table that’s frankly the only thing I’ve seen that convinces them they’d better get serious about sanctions,” Liz Cheney said during her debate.

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Satyam Khanna is a Research Associate for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.


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Bombs Away
Posted by: QQOblivion on May 13, 2009 8:53 AM   
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Fine. Let's drop DICK CHENEY out of an airplane over Iran!

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» RE: Bombs Away Posted by: wal55
» RE: Bombs Away Posted by: hilaryuk
Dick "The War Criminal" Cheney says what he's been saying since his PNAC days:
Posted by: channing on May 13, 2009 9:06 AM   
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Cheney has always wanted to Bomb Iran... what a surprise that a still-un-indicted War Criminal who over a decade ago put his signature on the Project For a New American Century document calling for the Military Conquest of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon and the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, Iran, would still be free to roam around on Earth calling for more mass-murder. So this leaves me with a question:

If I call for Bombing Cheney, does that constitute a Hate-Crime? If so, why doesn't someone arrest Dick-the-Cheney for his repeated Hate-Crimes of threatening Iranian people?

Thanks to our own Blue-Dog imperialists, however, this monster is still on the loose.

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All in the family
Posted by: inprov73 on May 13, 2009 9:40 AM   
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Have he and his daughter considered becoming suicide bombers?

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AIPAC gets a woody
Posted by: weathered on May 13, 2009 10:08 AM   
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and the Dick gets to play w/planes again.

The very technology that control drones drove the planes into the towers.

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Here's a thought that occurred to me...
Posted by: Quannah on May 13, 2009 10:04 PM   
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Dick Cheney is grooming his daughter Liz to run for President in 2012.

We had better keep a very close eye on these two. This does not smell right to me.

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Alternet, you could stop him if you wanted. Expose the lies of 9/11.
Posted by: pfgetty on May 14, 2009 5:20 AM   
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Alternet pretends to want to stop the insanity. Wars, occupations, torture, trashing of the Constitution.

I say BS.

Because Alternet managers and journalists know how to stop the insanity: expose the overwhelming evidence that 9/11 was an inside job.
The proof is in. The work is done. All that needs to happen is for the media to publicize it.
But they won't.
Can you think of any reasons they would not present us with the contradictions, implausibilities, inconsistencies and even impossibilities of the official story?
I can only think of a few reasons why Alternet would avoid exposing the biggest story of all time:

1. They are threatened, physically or otherwise, by certain groups that would be hurt by the truth of 9/11.

2. They are pressured by the withdrawal of financial support.

3. Alternet itself is associated with a group that would suffer harm if the official story was exposed as a fraud.

4. There are no valid contradictions or impossibilities inherent in the official story.........nothing to investigate, nothing suspicious about the official story.

#4 we can eliminate, as we have ample proof that the official story has holes that are miles wide.
There are dozens, but recently a peer reviewed scientific paper has been presented by Steven Jones and Kevin Ryan and Niels Harrit and Jeffrey Ferret that proves that the WTC collapsed via controlled demolition. The ramifications of this fact are gigantic.
To summarize, they proved that samples of dust collected from several places after the collapse of the WTC contains thermite, an explosive used in controlled demolition.

But this thermite, found in quantities that extrapolated to all of the dust would be in the tons, is a particular kind of thermite called nanothermite. Nanothermite is not available commercially. It was and still is experimental. It is only made at certain labs around the world, most of them dealing with the military, and mostly investigated and paid for by the US military. Each bit of nanothermite has a signature. That is, it is unique and can be traced to the lab and researchers that made it.
And that is, of course, scary to people who desperately want to keep this information from the awareness of the American people.

Is Alternet scared of this information?

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I agree with QQOblivian
Posted by: NamVeT on May 14, 2009 12:06 PM   
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that dickless cheney, his daughter, georgie, and the rest of these traitors be dropped over Iran! Never in my life have I experienced such un-American bullshit. As far as I'm concerned, they should all be strung up on the front lawn of the White House for all the world to see. At least that way, the world would know that we (as American Citizens) have had enough! It would also demonstrate that we are serious and that this kind of Crime Against Humanity will never happen on our watch again... These people are indeed the scum of not only the Earth, but of the universe!

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As Wanda Sykes said....
Posted by: Smiff on May 14, 2009 1:46 PM   
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'I told my kids, if two cars pull up and one is a stanger and the other one is Dick Cheney...get into the car with the stranger!!'

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