McClatchy: Cheney urging military strikes on Iran

[Newsjock]

Source: McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — President Bush charged Thursday that Iran continues to arm and train insurgents who are killing U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and he threatened action if that continues.

... Behind the scenes, however, the president's top aides have been engaged in an intensive internal debate over how to respond to Iran's support for Shiite Muslim groups in Iraq and its nuclear program. Vice President Dick Cheney several weeks ago proposed launching airstrikes at suspected training camps in Iraq run by the Quds force, a special unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to two U.S. officials who are involved in Iran policy.

... Cheney, who's long been skeptical of diplomacy with Iran, argued for military action if hard new evidence emerges of Iran's complicity in supporting anti-American forces in Iraq; for example, catching a truckload of fighters or weapons crossing into Iraq from Iran, one official said.

The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to talk publicly about internal government deliberations.



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[proud patriot]

1. !

:argh:

[Benhurst]

2. Impeach Cheney NOW!

Recommended #1

[aggiesal]

43. Impeach President Cheney and VP Karl Rove n/t

[babylonsister]

3. Who are these goddam officials who speak anonymously?

I'm SO SICK of this warmongering admin!

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

4. Yeah but what about

all the bastards with deep pockets that WE have armed? Why the hell should Iran be singled out? The US is the largest arms dealer in the world (Israel is #2!). Should we launch a preemptive strike on OURSELVES?

[Megahurtz]

11. No Kidding!

It's okay for Israel to have Nukes which the U.S. paid for,
but Iran is not allowed to have their own???
Hypocritical Warmongering Bastards! :argh:

[Amonester]

22. Darth dic-ktraitor SOLD (illegally, what's new?) stuff to Iran when...

...he was CEO of helleeeeburton (was convicted and fined for it).

His (PNAC) plan was to accuse them of using what he SOLD them as an excuse to bomb them...

5 deferments, hey?

[Behind the Aegis]

33. Israel is not #2.

It is even debatable that the US is number one (it goes back and forth with Russia).

[annabanana]

5. Invading Iran is now Cheney's NUMBER ONE objective..

He is working on this full time now. He turns over and over different scenarios that would get us to throw a bunch of missiles into Iran. It would remove the last remaining bricks of the dam that is stopping WWIII.

(If only there was another major attack in the US.. that would be perfect/i])

[Bonobo]

6. Cheney threatens U.S. National Security! Arrest him!

[redqueen]

7. *sigh*

god almighty... is there no hope at all?

[aquart]

8. I assume he's busy manufacturing that evidence now?

Gosh, I wonder what it'll be?

[SpiralHawk]

9. Cheney speaks like a true republicon Homelander CHICKENHAWK

Intent on keeping war profits sky high for himself and his republicon cronies.

Cheney has five (5) freaking military deferments. Shameful that he would be so eager to send others off to fight and die for his lies.

[peacebird]

10. of course he is - right on schedule. The dollar is in the toilet and the cons hear

the Archie Bunker toilet flush. Dick needs a diversion, a big diversion. And soon.

A bright shiny new shock and awe campaign complete with lots of blathering about patriotism and supporting the troops will lull the sheeple back into their dazed complacency..

[Algorem]

13. let's give the world a courtesy flush

[kineneb]

20. yup, diversion, diversion, hey look over there!

markets are going down, dollar going down, Cheney must have a diversion... can't have it seem like his buddies the NeoCons screwed up the economy... quick, bomb someone... things blowing up, look over there... meanwhile Pres. Foster Brooks slurs his way through saying things are all rosy...

the inmates are running the asylum...

[Fovea]

38. Or it will have them in their workplaces

with an extra wooden shoe.

I mean, sure, we are just too cowed to get into the streets, goddess knows the Soviets had a thirty or so year period of being cowed...

But the shoes went into the big ass gears a long time before they marched in red square. Once the consent of the governed is withdrawn, governance become increasingly difficult.

[stillcool]

12. Not again...

attacking Iran is moving right up there with the #2 Al Quaeda guy.

[0007]

14. The Democratic party is gonna fuck around and fuck around and let these

bastards back in control. If so, it won't surprise me to see another asshole like junior running the country in 09.

Why can't we get Nancy Pelosi off her dead ass and get impeachments. What are we waiting for?

[grytpype]

15. God save us from Dick Cheney!

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[Megahurtz]

16. Hurry SOMEBODY Stop "It"!!!

[bvar22]

17. As soon as Darth creates his "Hard Proof",

he can have Colin present it to the UN.
THAT ought to convince everyone!

[ladjf]

18. Why would anyone follow cheney's advice. He is always

wrong.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

26. The MFers making obscene amounts of money off of Cheney's advice...

think he's quite right. To hell with everyone else.

Doesn't the Bible teach something about ill-gotten gains? Hmm, maybe it's an I Love Lucy episode I'm thinking of. ;-)

[arewenotdemo]

19. He hasn't murdered enough Muslims yet.

They wanted to invade 7 nations in 5 years, according to Clark.

His appetite for blood is not nearly sated.

[tabasco]

21. Lead the way Chicken Dickie!!

Five deferments when he had a chance to fight!!

Brave Chicken Dickie will bravely fight to the last drop of OUR blood!!

[Mojambo]

23. Dead-Eye Dick knows time is running out for them. n/t

[FourScore]

24. It's going all according to plan...n/t

[MisterP]

25. that's why he's called The Beast! (or Iblis)

[marmar]

27. "if hard new evidence emerges of Iran's complicity in supporting anti-American forces in Iraq"

..... and if we can't find any, we'll make some shit up! ..... What did Colin do with his truck diagrams before he left?

[Theduckno2]

28. Yep, new batteries in his pacemaker and he is ready to go to war.

I'd like to think that Cheney is skeptical of diplomacy with anyone who won't do what he wants.

What hard "old" evidence did they have showing Iran's complicity in supporting anti-American forces in Iraq? :shrug:

Rumor has it that Iranian Intelligence passed along the secret location of Guam to the Russians.

They have also begun to commit the most unfathomable treachery in the eyes of any neo-con oilman, they are rationing fuel! Imagine if conservation were to catch on! They need to be attacked before this vile idea is absorbed by the impressionable minds of Merkuns.

[smiley_glad_hands]

29. Dick didnt get the memo from Americas new masters.

The Chinese are not going to let us touch Iran.

[Hekate]

30. He's an insane old monster, & I'm rigorously censoring the rest of my thoughts.Gods help the US. nt

[alfredo]

31. We're the only ones allowed to meddle in Iraq's affairs.

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[nolabels]

34. Dick can talk crap all he wants, it will never happen

If Iran gets bombed they shut off the straight, China's and the rest of the east and wests oil gets shut off as well. Then the Saud's, Japan and China will call in their loans they have with the USA. The USA has no money to pay so they have no more trading partners because you cannot trade on the world market if rest of world puts a freeze on your transactions untill they get paid . The rest of world shuts out the USA. The USA will have a hard time threatening anybody because what is left of the USSR will stand behind the others. The bombing or any other military action against Iran is suicide for the NeoCon cabal. The rest of world now see the USA as weak and vulnerable. * played the last card in Iraq and failed. The Rats will talk shit because they have painted themselves into a corner and really they have no other options left other than flapping their gums. Remember a 25% approval rate is not a real good place to gamble from anyway :shrug:

[Zech Marquis]

35. I have an idea..

since Unca Dick wants to have a another war so damn bad, I'd be more than happy to send him my Xbox 360, along with Gears of War and my pre-ordered Halo 3. Then he can go shoot and blow up all the virtual liberal terrorists he wants :evilgrin:

[Maraya1969]

36. We wouldn't have to worry about Iran's support for Shiite Muslim groups

in Iraq if we were not in Iraq!

[EFerrari]

37. Impeach this evil man NOW!

[Doctor_J]

39. I'm all for it

The FISA bill demonstrated beyond a shadow ofa doubt that we're not going to get the neocons out of the WH and congress until we have another world war. Sadly, we're unable to have any affect on our "representatives" any more. The sooner we get to the end of this sad chapter in history the better.

[HughMoran]

40. Cheney can only think about murdering people

This guy is a psychotic mass murderer - WTF is he doing in the WH?

[sarcasmo]

41. My guys at KBR and Halliburton need to get those contracts before we leave office.

Kick and Nom for the sure stupidity of this Administration.

[HuffleClaw]

42. nobody would believe ANY 'intel' they produce*

nobody, not even the freepers.




*as in manufacture