Military action still an option with Iran, Cheney says in Dallas

[aggiesal]

Source: Dallas Morning News

Peaceful actions yet to resolve threat, Cheney says in Dallas speech

12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, November 3, 2007

By GROMER JEFFERS Jr. / The Dallas Morning News
[e-mail] / The Dallas Morning News
Elizabeth Souder contributed to this report.

Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday that peaceful measures to prevent Iran from menacing the Middle East and developing a nuclear weapons program have not yet worked, leaving military action as a possible solution.



"Nobody wants to resolve this in any means other than peacefully, if it's at all possible," Mr. Cheney told the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth.

"But in the final analysis, the worst outcome would be a situation in which Iran is sort of let loose, if you will, in that part of the world with an inventory of nuclear weapons prepared to be used against other nations in the region or to dominate that part of the globe and to threaten not only the United States, but many of our friends and allies out there as well."

In his speech, Mr. Cheney also rejected proposals that have arisen in Congress to defund the war in Iraq or to immediately withdraw or set a timeline for troop removal there.

"We will prevail in the long run by holding up an alternative to the ideologies of hatred and resentment," he said. "A free democratic Iraq will be a strategic partner in the heart of the Middle East, helping us fight and win the war on terror."

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If impeachment were on the table, I'd bet that Iran would be off the table.

[msongs]

1. good ol' dickie, raising the price of oil another notch for his corporate masters nt

[Earth_First]

2. Kucinich: Cheney's days are numbered.

With Cheney out; Iran would likely be out as well.

[rockybelt]

3. Darth

Didn't we hear the same goddamned thing about Iraq?:mad:

[arewenotdemo]

4. "the ideology of resentment"? WTF?

Something has long told me that the fucked-up personal lives of these psychopaths are killing and maiming many, many innocent people.

[mallard]

5. Re: 'still' an option

His rhetoric is waning deperate - good.

[pattmarty]

6. Can't this mother fucker get a heart attack and just die?

[tanyev]

7. Why is anyone still listening to the crazy uncle in the attic?

[bdamomma]

8. OMG, he is truly delusional, he must be de throned.

what a sick fuck he is.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. God he still looks like evil incarnate

Hey Dick you don't have long to live. Why don't pull a suicicde attack on Iran?

[scarface2004]

10. listen asshole...if you have such a hardon for war...

then strap on your uniform and head over there right now you muthafucka!!!!!

[Bongo Prophet]

11. The people of Peru deserve better! n/t

:evilgrin:

[ohio2007]

12. what happens if Bush does not bomb Iran? ( NYTimes OpEd)

snip
The reason so many Democrats believe war with Iran is inevitable, of course, is that the administration is so flagrantly rerunning the sales campaign that gave us Iraq. The same old scare tactic — a Middle East Hitler plotting a nuclear holocaust — has been recycled with a fresh arsenal of hyped, loosey-goosey intelligence and outright falsehoods that are sometimes regurgitated without corroboration by the press.


snip
Then there’s the really bad news. Much as Iraq distracted America from the war against Al Qaeda, so a strike on Iran could ignite Pakistan, Al Qaeda’s thriving base and the actual central front of the war on terror. As Joe Biden said Tuesday night, if we attack Iran to stop it from obtaining a few kilograms of highly enriched uranium, we risk facilitating the fall of the teetering Musharraf government and the unleashing of Pakistan’s already good-to-go nuclear arsenal on Israel and India.


snip
...If Mr. Bush actually does make a strike against Iran, Mrs. Clinton will be the only leading Democrat to have played a cameo role in enabling it. If he doesn’t, she can no longer be arguing in the campaign crunch of fall 2008 that she is against rushing to war, because it would no longer be a rush. Her hand would be forced.

snip

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/opinion/04rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

[conspirator]

13. If the devil wanted to disguise as a human he couldn't pick a better face nt