Posted on 02/23/2007 12:13:07 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
US Vice-President Dick Cheney has raised the possibility of military action to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.
He has endorsed Republican senator John McCain's proposition that the only thing worse than a military confrontation with Iran would be a nuclear-armed Iran.
In an exclusive interview with The Weekend Australian, Mr Cheney said: "I would guess that John McCain and I are pretty close to agreement."
The visiting Vice-President said that he had no doubt Iran was striving to enrich uranium to the point where they could make nuclear weapons.
He accused Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of espousing an "apocalyptic philosophy" and making "threatening noises about Israel and the US and others".
He also said Iran was a sponsor of terrorism, especially through Hezbollah. However, the US did not believe Iran possessed any nuclear weapons as yet.
"You get various estimates of where the point of no return is," Mr Cheney said, identifying nuclear terrorism as the greatest threat to the world.
"Is it when they possess weapons or does it come sooner, when they have mastered the technology but perhaps not yet produced fissile material for weapons?"
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If the Democrats impeach Bush, then this is of course the upside. Enjoy President Cheney, Ms. Pelosi.
Must be the "11th way" Dick Cheney can kill you!
Watch the left-wing moonbats at DU, Kos, HuffandBlo, Moron.Org and the rest go nuts about this. I think Vice President Cheney makes them even crazier than President Bush.
MeCain won't support a strike against Iran. He might think he does, but his Democratic friends will talk him out of it.
Word is Cheney was also heard humming that Beach Boys song "bom, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, bom Irannnnn...
Camp Red Cloud!
How I love this man! Especially when he makes the Libs' heads hurt.
Payback for the Embassy takeover is long overdue. This nutmenajob guy is only reminding us that we should not wait much longer to do so.
Iran has to notice all that iron we have in the Persian Gulf.
To me, these two sentences taken together are most significant:
"You get various estimates of where the point of no return is," Mr Cheney said, identifying nuclear terrorism as the greatest threat to the world.
"Is it when they possess weapons or does it come sooner, when they have mastered the technology but perhaps not yet produced fissile material for weapons?"
The door is open indeed.
When were you at CRC?
Which is where they are..now!
"HuffandBlo"
LOL. "PuffHo" works, too.
Is Russia supporting Iran's nuclear build up to control 2/3rds of the world's oil in that region?
Graphic needed
lol, maybe thats why they have been so quite recently. Dick Cheney is the wisest politician on the international stage in many years.
Yes. Putin is a snake. He's not fooling anyone.
Not likely, since 2/3 of the world's oil is not there. If Russia stops oil shipments through the Strait, the main oil customers would quickly go ahead with other oil sources and coal products and nuclear power, which they are anyway but slowly.
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