Dick is in Egypt meeting Mubarak. Is he Begging for Help In Iraq?

[leftchick]

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, left, meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006. Cheney met Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday, This is the first meeting for Cheney in the U.S. official's rescheduled Mideast visit to discuss the situation in Iraq and escalating standoffs with Syria and Iran. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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CAIRO, Egypt - Vice President Dick Cheney met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Tuesday for talks on the political process in Iraq and the West's standoffs with Syria and Iran.

After meeting with Mubarak, Cheney was expected to travel to Saudi Arabia later Tuesday for talks with King Abdullah. He added a stop Wednesday in Kuwait to pay his respects after the death of the country's emir, Sheik Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah, over the weekend.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060117/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast_cheney_8


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The wording of the Al-Zaman article suggests that Cheney is angling with Mubarak for a contingency plan, in case things go very badly indeed when the US withdraws its troops. In other words, the Bush administration is going on hands and knees to Cairo because it is very, very desperate and very, very worried.

Al-Zaman says that Cheney will also talk to Saudi Arabia about the issue. Since Saudi Arabia is a neighbor, and anyway doesn't have much of an army, presumably Cheney would be asking Riyadh to fund the Egyptian/ Arab peacekeeping force in Iraq. Saudi Arabia had played a similar role in funding the Syrian peacekeepers in Lebanon in the 1970s and after.

Cheney will also seek greater support in the Arab world for the new Iraqi government, which will begin being formed as soon as the final results of the December 15 elections are announced. The previous Iraqi government had sometimes tense relations with the Arab League. Arab nationalist governments had tilted toward Saddam Hussein's Baath regime and had viewed the rise of a Shiite-Kurdish government in Baghdad, established by an American military intervention and with implicit Iranian support, with sullen suspicion.

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[bananas]

1. or to tell him we're going to bomb Iran?

"to discus the situation in Iraq and escalating standoffs with Syria and Iran"

[bklyncowgirl]

2. More likely he's on a vacation jaunt to the torture chambers.

Gives him a chance to try some hands on extreme interrogation.

[leftchick]

4. I was thinking that too

trading torture techniques? :puke:

[bklyncowgirl]

5. We have eco-tourism, adventure tourism why not torture tourism nt

[hadrons]

3. someone please photoshop Cheney on his knees ....

[CottonBear]

6. Is Dick incapable of sitting up straight and closing his legs?

He sat this way at the Aushwitz ceremony while wearing his military snowsuit. Hell, he sits this way in every photop. He can't stand up for health reasons and he can't even fucking sit properly.

I think something has happened to his face . Maybe it's nerve damage like what happened to one side of Nader's face. That could explain the lop-sided scowl. Only one side of his face moves. Maybe he had a small stroke.

[leftchick]

7. the chimp sits like that as well

no fucking manners