Cheney Plots New Wars To Save His Hide (LaRouche)

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Cheney Plots New Wars To Save His Hide
by Jeffrey Steinberg

Lyndon LaRouche's call for Dick Cheney's immediate ouster from the Bush Administration has resonated around the world. Leading American, Israeli and Arab sources have told this news service that the Vice President is busy plotting military confrontations with both Syria and Iran.

As one Israeli source put it: "Cheney has told Ariel Sharon that the American people will never tolerate the removal of a President or Vice President during wartime. He is pressuring Sharon to back up U.S. war plans, targeting Syria and Iran. Cheney sees his political days numbered, and he is desperate for a war to save his political hide."

The Israeli source reported that the Vice President roused Sharon out of bed recently at 3 AM, Israeli time, to press him for support for possible military actions against Syria and Iran. Israeli military intelligence has weighed in strongly against "regime change" in Damascus, warning that any post-Bashar Assad government would be more dangerous, and could possibly involve the Muslim Brotherhood or other radical Islamists, far more hostile towards Israel.

Despite this opposition, the source indicated that Sharon is under enormous pressure from the United States to deliver. Already, Israel has accelerated delivery of high-altitude drone unmanned aircraft to the Pentagon, and has agreed to provide large numbers of Farsi interpreters, in the event of a confrontation with Iran. Some of those interpreters, according to a well-informed source inside Sharon's inner circle, are to be deployed to air bases in Great Britain, indicating that the Tony Blair government in London is once again on board for an Anglo-American military adventure in the Persian Gulf, despite the ongoing deepening quagmire in Iraq.

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http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3241cheney_plots_war.html

[Maraya1969]

1. Is this a reliable source? It sounds too far off.

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2. I think he is a nut case.

But I think that his premise has been bounced around here many times.

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5. Larouche is right often enough to take this seriously.

He's not a dumb man.

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3. About as credible as Farrakhan

Larouche makes Woody Woodpecker look reserved. Cuckoo cuckoo.

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6. do you have any evidence to support your assertion?

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4. LaRouche, where's Rockefeller's nuclear holocaust?

LaRouche has a thing about Veeps and war predictions. Back when he was running his Labor Party, in the mid-70s, some of his acolytes used to distribute its weekly newspaper at my college. I still remember the issue that ran a big front-page headline, "Rockefeller to Launch Nuclear War!" (This was when Nelson Rockefeller was Ford's V.P.) It gave the precise date when the attack was supposed to happen, as I recall.

LaRouche is probably the best living contradiction of the old proverb that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend".