Dick Cheney to take fight against Russia's oil dominance to Azerbaijan

[sabra]

Source: UK Telegraph

Dick Cheney, the US vice-president will arrive in the Caucasus on a mission to prevent Russia from gaining a stranglehold over Central Asia's vast reserves of energy.


As he starts a tour of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine, Mr Cheney will try to allay fears that Russia's campaign in Georgia has fatally damaged a cornerstone of the West's energy policy.

That message will be particularly potent in Azerbaijan's capital Baku, once the capital of the Soviet oil industry and now a pivotal ally of the United States.

The Caucasus region, between the gas-rich Caspian Sea and Turkey, provides the only energy pathway from Central Asia to Europe that does not traverse Russia or Iran.

"If Azerbaijan tilts to Russia there goes 15 years of US energy diplomacy," said a Western diplomat in Baku. "Cheney has the history and personal clout to make this trip clearly focused on energy."

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John Hannah, his national security advisor said: "The overriding priority, especially in Baku, Tbilisi and Kiev, will be the same: a clear and simple message that the United States has a deep and abiding interest in the well-being and security of this part of the world."

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2669248/Dick-Cheney-to-take-fight-against-Russias-oil-dominance-to-Azerbaijan.html

[Nipper1959]

1. How long

before they start lobbing bombs into Russian territory??????????
The Penguin diplomat strikes again!

[goforit]

11. Where's Batman when you need him

[bemildred]

2. "If Azerbaijan tilts to Russia there goes 15 years of US energy diplomacy,"

And Cheney is the meddling Vice President of a weak, lame duck, failed President, who is likely much more interested in protecting his own ass than producing any real remedy for his latest debacle.

[HillbillyBob]

8. the same cheney who has

put 20,000 Blackwater mercenaries in a base just outside of Baku?

[bemildred]

9. I assume you have a link for that? Or something?

Both that the mercenaries are there and that it is Cheney's doing? One sees so many claims on the web.

Then, after that, I am curious about what you think the relevance of those mercenaries might be to my posted comments. The US has troops and mercenaries posted all over the planet, and it doesn't seem to have prevented Bush/Cheney from being humiliated and from humiliating us, repeatedly.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Azerbaijan

has current administration US style democracy i.e they had suspect elections even to the extent that the observors were kicked out. Sooner or later they will get a "straight" government and what will happen then is anybody's guess.

[bdamomma]

4. now this is news, keep your eye on Cheney.

cheney needs a transfusion since he is so addicted to oil.

[Deny and Shred]

5. "Medvedev to take fight against US oil dominace in Gulf of Mexico"

Alternate headline.

"The Russian president will arrive in Venezuela on a mission to prevent America from gaining a stranglehold over Central America's vast reserves of energy."

Doesn't sound right to Americans. I can't imagine the article's headline sounds right in Russia.

[Wizard777]

6. Cheney: That oil is mine all mine! Don't you even look at it!

:nuke:

[goforit]

12. Yes and he'll stir up trouble and innocent lives will be at stake.

[cosmicdot]

7. not buying the 'former members' bit

and, as far as 'high distinction' ... we'll be the judge of that ...

http://www.usacc.org/content.php?type=page&id=2&chi=5&par=3
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6a2u9d

He's been meddling in Azerbaijan for awhile

US Azerbaijan 'Chamber of Commerce'

FORMER MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The following individuals of high distinction have previously served on the Advisory Council and the Board of Directors:

Dick Cheney
Vice President of the United States of America

Richard Armitage
Deputy Secretary of State


http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=US-Azerbaijan_Chamber_of_Commerce

[katty]

10. Cheney by decree: I will own all the oil on earth!

[lovuian]

13. Dick is worried that Putin may own more oil than him

Azerbaijan .... I laugh at Cheney he weakened his protector the US Military

This is what you get

Putin must have played the Bushes like a fiddle

[skoalyman]

14. dick cheney better watch out you never know his defibrillator may decide to go nuts

for no reason at all wink wink http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=4434207

[im1013]

15. Can we PLEASE get these evil bastards out of office

before any more people have to die in order to line theirs
and their buddies' pockets??

I just can't take their shit anymore!!!

:rant:

[Algorem]

16. So much world war to start,so little time.