Dan Froomkin: Cheney on the Warpath Again?

[babylonsister]

Cheney on the Warpath Again?


By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com



11/04/08 "Washington Post" -- - -Vice President Cheney went on right-wing talk radio yesterday with a dramatic new argument for preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons, casting the Iranian leadership as apocalyptic zealots who yearn for a nuclear conflagration.

Cheney also notably refused to comment about any recent conversations he may have had with Israeli leaders about the possibility of their bombing Iranian nuclear facilities. Some observers suspect Cheney of encouraging Israel to attack Iran as a proxy.

Conventional wisdom in Washington has it that Cheney and other supporters of military action against Iran were sidelined after a National Intelligence Estimate last November reported that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003.

But the vice president sounded anything but chastened yesterday, speaking with two of his favorite media enablers. In fact, he sounded like the NIE never happened.

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[williesgirl]

1. Froomklin and Eugene are the only reasons I still read TWP. rec'd

[DCKit]

2. Republicon Projection.

Everything they want, and would do, to other countries/continents is out there for all to see.