Vice President Cheney In Japan For Talks

[ConcernedCanuk]

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Vice President Cheney In Japan For Talks

Big News Network.com Sunday 11th April, 2004

Vice President Dick Cheney arrived Saturday in Japan for talks with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi that are expected to focus on Iraq and North Korea.

On the top of the agenda will be the three Japanese nationals kidnapped in Iraq by a militant group that has threatened to kill them if Japan refuses to pull its Self-Defense Forces from that nation by Sunday night. The Japanese troops are assigned to reconstruction aid assistance in Samawah, Iraq.

The Kyodo News Service reported Koizumi and Cheney are also expected to call for complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of all North Korean nuclear programs and to reaffirm the need to launch a six-nation working group.

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After Japan, Cheny's three-nation Asian tour is scheduled to take him to China and South Korea.

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=076e4abf00ca33ac
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I thought he wasn't scheduled until Monday?

[Cocoa]

1. Shilling for Westinghouse

A-B-C. Always Be Closing, even with a couple of wars getting out of control.

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Apr/04102004/nation_w/155829.asp

[salinen]

2. Great line

from "Glen Garry Glen Ross"

[billybob537]

3. Now I know

why Bush is on vacation. The babysitters out of town on business!!!:puke:

[leesa]

4. And lo and behold, the hostages are to be freed. What a surprise.

Who do you supposed captured them?

[0007]

5. I know who's indirectly responsible for them to be taken as hostages

[Flagg]

12. The Japanese hostages aren't gonna be released

their liberation has been denied this morning




sorry

[Beetwasher]

6. This Is Going To Sound Crazy

but something occurred to me about the timing of this and the release of the Japanese hostages...

I think it's VERY unusual for these hostages to be let go.

What occurred to me is this, and I don't necessarily believe it, BUT I also wouldn't completely discount it:

Cheney had the Japanese hostages taken and told Japan to swear to keep their troops in Iraq or he'd have them burned alive. THAT'S why he went to Japan. The hostages were released, because Japan told Dick the troops were staying. Cheney needed to head off the embarrassment of the Japanese troops leaving BIG time, and before the hostages were taken you just KNOW they were thinking of pulling their troops...

[Snellius]

7. Dick looks pretty shaky in this photo.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040410/481/tok10904100957

There's an amazing series of photographs of the WH warlords by Annie Leibowitz in the new Vanity Fair. There's an extreme closeup of Cheney with blood in his eye -- literally.

[dArKeR]

8. Can someone please post the pic of 'KOIZUMI YOU GO TO IRAQ'

http://www.iol.co.za / cover pic.

Thanks

Related story but no pic at this link:
By Linda Sieg

Tokyo - "The weight of a human life is heavier than the earth itself."

That was how, in 1977, Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda explained why he paid a ransom of $6-million (about R36-million) to extremists who had hijacked a Japanese jet and landed it in Dhaka, Bangladesh, threatening to kill those on board if their demands were not met.

Nearly three decades on, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has taken the opposite tack, vowing not to cave in to "despicable terrorist threats" by withdrawing Japanese troops from Iraq.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1081595341749B262&set_id=1

Now we need this signs in America for Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld.

[revcarol]

9. Pardon me, but who's minding the store?

Cheney out of the country...
Bush campaigning, fishing...

And no Richard Clarke to take over for the meatheads...

So who's minding the store...while the war in Iraq is rapidly going to hell in a handbasket, the economy is still tanking, the provisional puppets are even about to resign,Britain can't supply more troops until July 1 after the handover and then only 700 more...

[cliss]

10. Interesting, CC. Most interesting sentence:

"he wasn't scheduled to go until Monday".

I see 3 things happening in that area.

1) North Korea has, for some unknown reason, started its saber-rattling again (there's a thread on LBN from this week). They're doing the usual threats and dares. Is there some unusual danger going on?

2) Japan has got to be feeling the pressure right now. Junichiro Koizumi must be feeling like a rock and a hard place, with the sobbing hostages on TV. Japanese people are highly educated, and they might decide they don't need Koizumi if he keeps going against their wishes.

3) China is looming on the horizon. There seem to be increased tensions regarding Taiwan, more threats than usual. South Korea is fragile, volatile right now.

Crisis? Possibly. I don't see Cheatin Cheney as a problem solver. So - don't even bother, Dick.

[ConcernedCanuk]

11. It's the same old threat/bribe/dollars thingie

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As far as Japan goes, I'm sure that Cheney is going over there to say things to JK that he wouldn't dare put on paper, say on the telephone or send out on the airwaves . . .

I mean if Japan was REALLY committed to stay in Iraq, there would be no reason for Dickie to go over there (oh no!! another Dickie in charge of a war - -)

Also, he could be going over there to whine for MORE troops, maybe give him a nuke or two? Bush called Putin last Thursday whining for help, but Putin basically told him not unless it was under the wing of the UN. Then Bush called Poland, Salvador and 2 other counties anyway to make sure they were "committed" to staying in Iraq.

China?

They want the reactor(s) contract(s) for two reasons.

Of course, there's the dollars.

But you know how many computer chips, sensors, relays, etc. it takes to control a nuclear plant?

Heck, bu$cho could have hundreds of transmitters, mini web cams, up links to their computers, Internet, intra-net system that no-one would EVER discover.

And then there's those little remote failsafe/self-destruct thingies.

Heck, if they can control a battle-bot on mars, a reactor on another continent is a piece of cake . .

But this is jus the ramblings of a dumm canuk

:freak: