"But there's some concern about the vice president's office."

[donsu]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/01/politics/animal/main2876877.shtml


Cheney And Iran


(Political Animal) CHENEY AND IRAN....Remember that report from Steve Clemons last week about how Dick Cheney is hoping to get Israel to attack Iran in order to provoke a shooting war that will suck in the United States? Today in the New York Times, Helene Cooper confirms it:
In interviews, people who have spoken with Mr. Cheney's staff have confirmed the broad outlines of the report, and said that some of the hawkish statements to outsiders were made by David Wurmser, a former Pentagon official who is now the principal deputy assistant to Mr. Cheney for national security affairs.
Good 'ol David Wurmser. A neocon's neocon. Co-author in 1996 of "A Clean Break," the infamous document that proposed giving up on peace in the Middle East in favor of armed attacks on Syria, Iran, Lebanon, and, while we're at it, Iraq too. A man who proposed attacking South America in retaliation for 9/11. The guy who keeps Cheney bucked up when things look bad.

Unsurprisingly, this news didn't go over well with non-crazy people:

-snip - Mohamed ElBaradei-

....Several Western European officials also echoed his concern, and said privately that they are worried that Mr. Cheney's "red lines" — the point at which he believes that Iran is on the brink of acquiring a nuclear weapon and a military strike is necessary — may be coming up soon. "We fully believe that Foggy Bottom is committed to the diplomatic track," one European official said Wednesday. "But there's some concern about the vice president's office."
-snip-
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[Me.]

1. David Wurmser

The guy, who with Michael Maloof, who ran the Office of Special Plans, who was implicated in the Plame affair, and who recently has been working with Liz Cheney trying to set off another war. So maybe everything doesn't come out of the dick's mouth, his daughter takes over when HIS lips are shut.

[seemslikeadream]

2. war is already opened on four fronts: Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iran.

war is already opened on four fronts: Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iran.
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01082007.html

....

Neoconservatives have called for World War IV against Islam. In Commentary magazine Norman Podhoretz called for the cultural genocide of Islamic peoples. The war is already opened on four fronts: Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iran.

The Bush administration has used its Ethiopian proxies to overthrow the Somalian Muslims who overthrew the warlords who drove the US from Somalia. The US Navy and US intelligence are actively engaged with the Ethiopian troops in efforts to hunt down and capture or kill the Somalian Muslims. US Embasy spokesman Robert Kerr in Nairobi said that the US has the right to pursue Somalia's Islamists as part of the war on terror.

For at least a year the Bush administration has been fomenting and financing terrorist groups within Iran. Seymour Hersh and former CIA officials have exposed the Bush administration's support of ethnic-minority groups within Iran that are on the US State Department's list of terrorist organizations. Last April US Representative Dennis Kucinich wrote a detailed letter to President Bush about US interference in Iran's internal affairs. He received no reply.





We're At War With Somalia?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1026383


and please don't forget about Haiti
http://lazylafargue.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html

[donsu]

3. kick

nt

[mirrera]

12. Don't forget Lebanon shooting up the Palastinian camps.

I keep thinking this is another "front".


www.NoBullshiRt.com

[whistle]

17. In addition to Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iran, Sudan is now being

...drawn into the war with the imposed economic sanctions and secret U.S. backed incursions. These are all oil rich and mineral rich areas, so the Bush/Cheney motives are now becoming quit clear.

[UTUSN]

4. K&R big #5 n/t

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. #9 kick!

this needs to make it to the front page!

[fooj]

6. "some concern"???

:banghead:

[Shipwack]

13. No need for head banging...

"Some concern" is diplomat's way of saying "Scared spitless".

[FloridaJudy]

7. Will anyone in Bu$h's Inner Circle

Who is not a raving lunatic please raise his or her hand?





Good boy, Barnie!

[Pace]

8. Let's all chip in, and give Dick, Lynn and Liz Cheney

along with Wursmer, Addington, Libby, Perle, and of course, the irrepressible BiBi,, their own destroyer, and sent them over to Iran to stop nuclear development, maybe Cheney can find a over and under 12 gauge with a bent barrel, and actually hit a target this time.

REgards
Pace

[hedgehog]

9. Kick - I've heard bits of this story before and have been trying to

figure out how the US VP takes us in to a war. Now I know.

[truth2power]

14. Well, thanks, Hedgehog. I was wondering the same thing...

Has anyone noticed how The Dick runs around the world stirring up trouble, and his underlings are pleading with him not to start WWIII?

I don't understand this. As if, in a SANE world, the VICE-President has any power to act as a free agent. Even the Corpse Media doesn't bother to address this oddity. Since when does the Vice-President make foreign policy? Doesn't anyone who doesn't have their head up Bush's butt think there's something wrong with this picture?

I know, of course, that the whole lot of them are bat-shit crazy, but someone....please....start asking the right questions! :banghead:

[jazzjunkysue]

10. Nice to see some truth posted, even it it's in the dark corners of CBS.

Better than nothing.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

11. and there was not ONE dem prez candidate to support DK's call

for impeaching Insaney.

WTF?

[donkeyotay]

15. Cheney's about to have a few more "enormous successes"

Destroying our country is very good business. Halliburton is still raking it in (Dick still has his stock options)and Halliburton even has the concession to lock us up in camps if we ever take to the streets over this. Did you know that as long as Iraq's oil production doesn't come back above pre-war levels, Halliburton has an open contract on our treasury?

Our country has been taken over by gangsters, but thank god gays can't get married.

The delusional sockpuppet that Cheney's got his hand up thinks we'll all be grateful that he had the courage to see this through, and that his greatness will be in the history books. :eyes:

I can't remember which one of these insane mofos asked what good were nuclear weapons if you couldn't use them.

[gratuitous]

16. Although the NYT finally noticed

And while the Times doesn't appear too alarmed at Crash Cart's privatizing the office of the vice president, they did casually notice it in an editorial today. Fortunately for the fascisti, they didn't do anything rash like, you know, indicate that Cheney should be stopped or reined in or anything (I refer you to the last paragraph):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/opinion/03sun2.html

"Reviewing this record — secrecy, impatience with government regulations, backroom dealings, handsome paydays — it dawned on us that Mr. Cheney is in step with the times. He has privatized the job of vice president of the United States."

Now, I don't know what times Cheney is "in step with," surely the NYT would have enlightened its readership except for space considerations, but most Americans I know think that the work of government should be done by the government -- answerable to the electorate, open, above-board, and transparent. And, as I said, the Times declines to say that anything should be done about Cheney's illegal activities, and you can almost detect a hint of approval in that last paragraph, can't you?

[lonestarnot]

18. Oh but we've got to have the 100,000 burned to death in one night before

we use those or it wouldn't be any fun.