Cheney is awesome! He is right and he pulls no punches. I want my president to be able to look like this picture. Enough with the nicey-nice garbage. The world is a tough playground, let's treat it that way.
Posted on 04/11/2008 11:34:54 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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.
Here he is talking to Sean Hannity:
Hannity: "What did you make of Senator Barack Obama's comments that he would talk to [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad, a Holocaust denier who's repeatedly threatened to blow up and remove Israel from the state -- from the map, the world map, and obviously is pursuing some nuclear capability?"
Cheney: "Well, he is, and I think the position we've taken with respect to that is that we would be prepared to talk when they stopped enriching uranium. Of course, they've never met that condition, so we haven't had talks at that level.
"But Ahmadinejad is I think a very dangerous man.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I hope this idiot is right that Cheney is prodding Israel to take out Iran. It’s their fight this time, and I wish them godspeed.
Cry me a river, Froomkin
Cheney is awesome! He is right and he pulls no punches. I want my president to be able to look like this picture. Enough with the nicey-nice garbage. The world is a tough playground, let's treat it that way.
I was hoping for a brokered GOP convention and Cheney emerging as the presidential candidate. He certainly is the best qualified for the job.
No way! The Vice President of the United States would not comment with an ally about potential military plans against an enemy? What is this world coming to?
Political reporters at The Post don't like WPNI [Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive] columnist Dan Froomkin's "White House Briefing," which is highly opinionated and liberal. They're afraid that some readers think that Froomkin is a [Washington] Post White House reporter.
John Harris, national political editor at the print Post, said, "The title invites confusion. It dilutes our only asset -- our credibility" as objective news reporters. Froomkin writes the kind of column "that we would never allow a White House reporter to write. I wish it could be done with a different title and display."
Harris is right; some readers do think Froomkin is a White House reporter. But Froomkin works only for the Web site
I love VP Cheney. If he had run for president, he’d have been my first choice.
Yes, that crazy Cheney, trying to deny the Islamic Republic nuclear weapons again. Won’t he ever learn?
As opposed to what they really are--peace-loving Muslims who are sitting on top of a Shiite-load of oil, but who are desperately developing nuclear power so they can air-condition their homes?
“right-wing talk radio”
funny, I’ve NEVER seen a reference to “left-wing” talk radio in the MSM.
Why do the links take me right back here? I want to read the rest of the article.
Anotherwords, “Froomkin isn’t as subtle about his anti-American left-wing cheerleading for the democrats and Bush-bashing as we’ve learned to be.”
I just tried both of them and they took me to the WaPo. That’s weird!
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