Rice pacifying Cheney's desire to strike Iran?

[sabra]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/18834.html

Cheney urging strikes on Iran
By Warren P. Strobel, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers

* Posted on Thu, August 9, 2007


<snip>

Behind the scenes, however, the president's top aides have been engaged in an intensive internal debate over how to respond to Iran's support for Shiite Muslim groups in Iraq and its nuclear program. Vice President Dick Cheney several weeks ago proposed launching airstrikes at suspected training camps in Iran run by the Quds force, a special unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to two U.S. officials who are involved in Iran policy.

The debate has been accompanied by a growing drumbeat of allegations about Iranian meddling in Iraq from U.S. military officers, administration officials and administration allies outside government and in the news media. It isn't clear whether the media campaign is intended to build support for limited military action against Iran, to pressure the Iranians to curb their support for Shiite groups in Iraq or both.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/world/middleeast/15diplo.html?ex=1344830400&en=fea28dce3dcd2f84&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

U.S. Weighing Terrorist Label for Iran Guards

By HELENE COOPER
Published: August 15, 2007


WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 — The Bush administration is preparing to declare that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps is a foreign terrorist organization, senior administration officials said Tuesday.

If imposed, the declaration would signal a more confrontational turn in the administration’s approach to Iran and would be the first time that the United States has added the armed forces of any sovereign government to its list of terrorist organizations.

...

A move toward putting the Revolutionary Guard on the foreign terrorist list would serve at least two purposes for Ms. Rice: to pacify, for a while, administration hawks who are pushing for possible military action, and to further press America’s allies to ratchet up sanctions against Iran in the Security Council.

[sharp_stick]

1. I can't believe it, I feel sad for Rice

Then again, I'd feel sad for anybody that gets saddled with coddling that psycotic asshole Crashcart. That man is one scary prick, I only hope he's gone from office, one way or another before he can hand us another of his homespun nightmares.

[wiggs]

2. Doubtful. They are on the same page...ex-oilmen now neocons. nt