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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLISTEN: In Private Speech, Dick Cheney Talks Bombing Iran and GOP Donors Applaud (LV Repuke primary)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/dick-cheney-sheldon-adelson-speech-bomb-iranWhat do former Vice President Dick Cheney, billionaire megadonor Sheldon Adelson, and Republican activists and funders talk aboutand applaudwhen they're behind closed doors at a Las Vegas hotel? Bombing Iran.
This past weekend, the Republican Jewish Coalition held its spring leadership meeting at Adelson's Venetian hotel, where several possible 2016 contenders, including ex-Gov. Jeb Bush and current Govs. Chris Christie, Scott Walker, and John Kasich, showed up to kiss the ring of the casino magnate, who's looking to bankroll a viable Republican presidential candidate. Though the heavy-on-Israel speeches of the White House wannabes were open to the press, the keynote address delivered by Cheney on Saturday night was off-limits to reporters and the public. But Mother Jones has obtained a recording of Cheney's talk, during which he once again derided President Barack Obama on foreign policy, blasted the isolationists within his own party, assailed critics of the National Security Agency, and seemingly endorsed the idea of an Israeli strike against Iran.
Speaking about the possibility of Iran developing a nuclear weapon, Cheney dismissed Obama's negotiations with Tehran, and he recalled a dinner meeting he had in 2007 with Israeli General Amos Yadlin. Yadlin had flown in the Israeli Defense Force's mission in 1981 that destroyed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor, and he was the country's military intelligence chief in 2007 when the Israel Defense Forces obliterated Syria's nuclear reactor in the Deir ez-Zor region. Recalling his conversation with Yadlin, Cheney said, "He looked across the table over dinner, and he said, 'Two down, one to go.' I knew exactly what he meant."
"One to go" was an obvious reference to bombing Iran's nuclear program. The crowd responded approvingly with laughter and applause. (Last October, Adelson publicly proposed that the US drop a nuclear bomb in the Iranian desert to show Tehran what will happen to Iran if it develops nuclear weapons.)
During his behind-closed-doors talk, Cheney took multiple shots at Obama.
Audio at bottom of page at link.
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LISTEN: In Private Speech, Dick Cheney Talks Bombing Iran and GOP Donors Applaud (LV Repuke primary) (Original Post)
hue
Apr 2014
OP
They need to stop unearthing this relic and send him back to the depths of hell where he belongs
SummerSnow
Apr 2014
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SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)1. They need to stop unearthing this relic and send him back to the depths of hell where he belongs
lumpy
(13,704 posts)2. Cheney is a dangerous person, I just can't call him a man. As long as he has a voice, people
will listen and approve of what he has to say. He is rallying the war mongers.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)3. WTH is he doing there, anyway?
Stirring up trouble. That's all he's good for. Five deferments means he's too chicken to be physically involved, but will stand by and watch others do the dirty work.
He is an evil, evil being. How much have we spent keeping him alive? For what? To destroy us? He's too evil to die...too scared of the devil.
hue
(4,949 posts)5. Cheney IS the Devil!!
mokawanis
(4,440 posts)6. Shitbirds like Cheney love war
as long as they themselves, or their kids, aren't doing the fighting and dying.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)7. Cheney never met a war he didn't want someone else's children to die in.