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Sabre-rattling on Iran: Cheney at it again!

All the signs out of Washington are ominous. The US seems intent on taking on Iran in some way or other to prevent it on its path to develop nuclear power. Not surprisingly, at the forefront of sabre-rattling is VP Dick Cheney - one of the active cheer-leaders for getting the US into the now ill-fated Iraq War.

Where Cheney sits with respect to Iran is clearly spelt out in this report from the Washington Post:

"The United States and other nations will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, Vice President Cheney said yesterday.

"Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions," Cheney said in a speech at a Washington think tank's conference, meeting at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg.



He said that Tehran's efforts to pursue technology that would allow it to build a nuclear weapon are obvious, and that "the regime continues to practice delay and deceit in an obvious effort to buy time."

If Iran continues on its course, Cheney said, the United States and other nations are "prepared to impose serious consequences." He made no specific reference to military action.

"We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon," he said.

Cheney's words, delivered at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Weinberg Founders Conference, seemed to continue an escalation of U.S. rhetoric against Iran over the past several days, including President Bush's warning Wednesday that a nuclear Iran could lead to "World War III."

Comments

Anonymous said…
THE LORD KNOWS

They call it "saber rattling" but
It is much worse than that,
This goading and provoking, taunt,
Intimidation--flat
Display of irrevocable
Hostility that none may quell.

My people, you have earned from me
With never a mot juste,
Full savor for hostility
In my returned disgust:
Fie upon ye, Americans--
My people in macabre danse.

It is not "carry a big stick,
Talk softly," but instead
Those words you use, so lunatic
As would offend the dead,
But warrant ye, so to inter
In an unchristian sepulcher.

Henceforward let me no more pledge
One nation "under God,"
Because, while specious words allege,
Convoked the deil´s synod,
It will return to haunt ye, and
Disrupt the best which ye have planned.

By taunts, as stirring fears and hatred
Comes never any good:
Corrosive drips that bile; nor flattered
Be, as if any should
Allege that ye were Christians so:
Though ye may not, the Lord doth know.

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