Cheney

[kpete]

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Pentagon civilian and military opposition to such a strategic attack on Iran had become well-known during 2007. But this is the first evidence from an insider that Cheney's proposal was perceived as a ploy to provoke Iranian retaliation that could used to justify a strategic attack on Iran.

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It appeared in early 2007, therefore, that a strike at Iran's nuclear programme and military power had been blocked by opposition from the Pentagon. Cheney's proposal for an attack on IRGC bases in June 2007, tied to the alleged Iranian role in providing both weapons -- especially the highly lethal explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) -- and training to Shiite militias appears to have been a strategy for getting around the firm resistance of military leaders to such an unprovoked attack.

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As IPS reported earlier this week, Cheney had already used Gen. David Petraeus' takeover as the top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq in early February 2007 to do an end run about the Washington national security bureaucracy to establish the propaganda line that Iran was manufacturing EFPs and shipping them to the Mahdi Army militiamen.

At that point, Adm. Fallon was in a position to deter any effort to go around DoD and military opposition to such a strike because he controlled all military access to the region as a whole. But Fallon's forced resignation in March and the subsequent promotion of Petraeus to become CENTCOM chief later this year gives Cheney a possible option to ignore the position of his opponents in Washington once more in the final months of the administration.

more at:
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42696

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. why did Cheney become so powerful?

[Amonester]

2. Darth Invader (a.k.a. cheyousself) really wants HIS oil.

And he's gonna get it (at the expense of how many more U.S. & M.E. lives?

But his impeachment is off the table... uhhhh... under the rug... :grr:

[AndyTiedye]

3. Impeach NOW! Before It is Too Late!

[Name removed]

4. Deleted message

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[Swamp Rat]

5. Adios

:hi:

[seemslikeadream]

6. How did that get in here?

[Swamp Rat]

7. Lovely graphic

make me feel nostalgic :hi:

Yeah a troll just wandered in here. He already used "Sick Willie" in an other thread. :dunce:

[yodermon]

9. check the profile, while it's still here.

It's a "she" apparently. Oh, and she "loves being a democrat".
:rofl:

[Swamp Rat]

11. Yes, and I read its praise of Saddam McCain in another thread

:dunce:

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Pizza, did anybody order any Pizza?

I've got granite with all them fixings

:-)

[Canuckistanian]

10. They're getting creative with usernames

But unfortunately, that's where the cleverness ends.

[Swamp Rat]

12. It stopped posting a few minutes.

Gettin' nervous it might get the granite cookie before getting to post it's first thread.

Let's see if the mods allow it. :popcorn:

[Canuckistanian]

17. Aw, I wanna play with it

Please? I promise I won't hurt it... much.

[AlCzervik]

26. don't touch it, it looks infected!

[Stinky The Clown]

8. hahaha

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Google DD-4, then go see a recruiter

[Arctic Dave]

20. Are you still here sweety?

Go take another Valium and wash it down with some more whiskey. No matter how much hate you dispense, you are just going to have to deal with having a capable man in the Whitehouse come Jan. 20, 2009.
Nighty night sweetheart.:*

[AlCzervik]

21. that's funy, i'd rather you go hunting with Cheney as well.

[Ghost in the Machine]

23. Here's your sign

[libodem]

13. What is it with these Capitalist pigs?

Isn't their God, Levi Strauss, or someone who preached it's okay to lie to the 'little people' because they are too stupid to know what's good for them anyway. Socialism is sounding better by the minute. These 'Big' people are becoming more deranged with power by the minute. I think Chaney has some kind of infarc dementia that has melted his last holds on reality.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Leo Strauss, and he was no capitalist

these guys aren't either.

Somewhere in his grave Adam Smith is doing flips in his grave

[libodem]

19. Oh, yeah, Adam Smith

that might have been who I was thinking of. I'm no economist, if you hadn't noticed. I did get that part right about the philosophy being it's alright to lie to the public because they are not capable of understanding that the rich need to get richer. Didn't I? Heck, maybe they don't even need an economic philosophy to follow, they are just screwing us because they can. ENRON was the dress rehearsal.

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. Well good ol Leo wasn't an economist either

he is much more closely allied to Aristotelian though, with a nice heaping of Machiavelli

Lie to them for their own good is just scratching the surface

It is important to understand where they come from, so we can smoke them out... oh and the American Enterprise Institute is FULL of them

[libodem]

27. That place must be a piece of work

Those 'think tanks' seem like a dangerous conspiracy of rich trouble makers to me. I wish they were doing something illegal and they could be brought down. Too bad they don't have an opposing entity that could expose them for sitting around trying to bring down the government or something. I think these type of plotters were behind the, Monica Lewinsky, fiasco.

[Ghost in the Machine]

18. Asshole

:blush:

Oops, I thought this was a 'Word Association' thread...

:blush:

[Canuckistanian]

22. DUzy!

:rofl:

[Ghost in the Machine]

24. !!!

:hi: