Yesterday, Schmuck Cheney Scolds Russia. Today, He Praises Kazakhstan.

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No moral equivalence is a right-wing by-word, isn't it? :eyes:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Cheney.html?ei=5094&en=d94bef5e1b27c503&hp=&ex=1146888000&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print

May 5, 2006
Cheney Says Iran Should Renounce Nuclear Weapons
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 11:59 a.m. ET

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney, visiting Kazakhstan Friday, said that Iran should follow the example the Central Asian set several years ago in renouncing nuclear weapons.

At a news conference, Cheney also shrugged off Russian criticism of a speech he delivered Thursday that accused President Vladimir Putin of backsliding on democracy and using energy resources as political leverage against European countries.

''We need to find a way diplomatically to avoid a kind of problem that would result from Iran-developed nuclear weapons,'' Cheney told reporters after unexpectedly lengthy talks with President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

He said the United States is working with others to try to find a ''diplomatic solution to avoid a confrontation over this issue.''


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American energy companies are heavily invested in that nation's oil industry, and Halliburton, the company Cheney ran before becoming vice president, has an oil-field services presence there.

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1. "need to avoid a kind of a problem?" I wonder what that really means?

evil cynicism says "it would be a problem not to have extra airbases available to bomb Iran back into the stone ages. We must find a diplomatic solution to this problem since Turkey has denied use of our bases there..."

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2. kick