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Posted on Feb 24, 2007

Vice President Cheney, speaking in Australia, indicated yet again that the use of force would be likely if Iran continued its uranium enrichment program. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday, “The Iranian people are vigilant and will defend all their rights to the end.” According to Cheney, “all options are on the table.”  However, for the Bush administration, this seems to translate as only one option: military intervention.

BBC:
Mr Cheney, speaking in Australia, said diplomacy was the preferred course.

But in a newspaper interview he backed US Senator John McCain’s view that the only thing worse than a military clash would be an Iran with nuclear arms.

Iran insists that its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes only.

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By Dr. Knowitall, PhD, PhD, February 25, 2007 at 3:34 pm Link to this comment
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I think, now that Jesus and his movement are on shakey ground (see Cameron article), all us liberals ought to recognize W as our personal saviour and get behind him.  In the very near future I’m coming out as a Bushian so that when he’s declared one of the Five Greatest Presidents, I’ll be in, looking out.  Do you really want to be out, looking in?  C’mon, ask his forgiveness and accept him as your personal saviour, since there’s now, apparently, going to be a vacancy.  He does take care of his supporters, you know.  Cheney’s doing the right thing.  We’re even more vulnerable without JC on our side.  The Muslims will unite knowing we have no leader and hit us with a couple nukuler WMDs and then where are we?  We gotta knock them out now, before it’s too late. Go, Dick! Go W! Onward, erstwhile Christian Soldiers!!!  P.S. Remember me!!

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By Dale Headley, February 25, 2007 at 3:08 pm Link to this comment
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What else can you expect from a hate-obsessed ideologue who got drunk and shot a friend?

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By Jackie T. Gabel, February 25, 2007 at 10:54 am Link to this comment
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If any WMD go off anywhere in the world, don’t look to the cave, the laptop, bin Laden; don’t look to the Axis of Evil. Look to Chicken Hawk Cheney and his handlers in the shadows.

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By Wayne Smyer, February 25, 2007 at 7:16 am Link to this comment
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WHAT’S GOOD FOR HALLIBURTON,IS GOOD FOR AMERIKA!”
  attributed to F-You Cheney, your truly “vice”
war president and 5 times deferred Chicken-Hawk
war profiteer.    Lwayno,disabled vet

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By John Hanks, February 24, 2007 at 9:47 pm Link to this comment
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Israelis steal the cars, while Palestinians run the chop shops.  Anything is possible with a bunch of crooks.  Dogs like Cheney return to their own vomit.  I am looking forward to the day when these creeps are ushered into Federal prison.

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By astronaut's nappy, February 24, 2007 at 3:54 pm Link to this comment
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‘Cheney’s coldie: the beer that stopped Sydney
By 7News
 
US Vice President Dick Cheney’s visit to Sydney has caused traffic chaos and inconvenience for thousands of drivers and residents.
Police closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge for half an hour, just so Mr Cheney could drive across it to have lunch with John Howard.

It was a meal that gave Sydney a severe case of indigestion.

As Mr Cheney was enjoying a cold beer at the Prime Minister’s residence, the traffic and tempers continued to build up.’

Maybe Cheney has the same effect on Iran?

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By HangBush, February 24, 2007 at 3:50 pm Link to this comment
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This is outrageous and unacceptable.  The US administration is too narrow-minded and greedy to see the consequences of their actions on the world.  The problem is - they simply don’t care.  Their goal is a New World Order and if they can’t have that, do you think they will just roll over?  They will either win, or kill everyone else trying.  The Elitists have to be destroyed.

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By The Old Hooligan, February 24, 2007 at 1:59 pm Link to this comment
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Iran is not Iraq, as we are apparently on the threshold of finding out the hard way. Here’s an idea: Let’s slap a pair of fatigues on Cheney, hand him a rifle and send this aging Warmonger over there in the first wave of attack troops when the time draws nigh.

Unless, oc, Mr. Cheney has something “better to do” in the meantime. Afterall, that same excuse already worked 40 years ago to keep him out of the ‘Nam, maybe he could use it again.

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By anchorite, February 24, 2007 at 1:40 pm Link to this comment
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Democracy is a positive.  Ostensibly, this positive was attempted in Iraq.  No such attempt in the case of Iran.  Expect blasts, and how.  Sadly.

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By KenDenver, February 24, 2007 at 12:52 pm Link to this comment
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We are currently embroiled in one illegal war and Chaney wants to get us into another one?  What I don’t understand is why more isn’t being said about our current illegal war.  Everyone seems to discuss Iraq as if we have some right to be there, but everything about the current war is illegal.  What should be happening is that Bush and his gang should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.  They shouldn’t be running this country, they should be in prison for what they have done.  And the main stream press continues to report on this war as if we had some right to be there in the first place.  It is time to start pushing the idea that what we are doing is illegal and the people responsible for it should be held responsible.

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By Quy Tran, February 24, 2007 at 12:20 pm Link to this comment
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Only animals love to use force for dominating other species.

Hey “big” Dick, remember that we are living in human harmony and not in “the planets of the apes”. When you open your mouth we see lot of blood coming out ! The king cobra is still much much better than you !

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By chuck i, February 24, 2007 at 11:57 am Link to this comment
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let iran alone—we should mind our own business. we have nuclear capabilities. who questions our arsenal? Congress has to approve /disapprove a war with iran. bush (princess leah)/cheney (darth vadar) doesn’t care about congress or the average american. warmongers.

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By Abdul-Bari, February 24, 2007 at 11:56 am Link to this comment
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Only once in history has a nation beeb insideous enough to unlease a WMD, in 1945 when the Americans dropped two Atomic bombs on Japan during World War II. If the Neo-Crusaders and their Zionist ally attack Iran with Nuclear weapons Iran may economicaly control the world in 50 years. Using Japan as a model, 60 years after beening devastated by having two major cities destroyed by the most savage weaponry ever used Japan is an economic giant. Unlike Japan, an island nation, Iran is a large country rich with natural resources including vast supplies of oil and natural gas. If Japan has become the 2nd largest economy in the world after the A-bombs, perhaps the U.S. should begin teaching the Iranian language Farsi in the schools.

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