Cheney Claims Iran Trying To Develop Bomb Despite No Evidence

Cheney Claims Iran Trying To Develop Bomb Despite No Evidence

LA Times   |   March 25, 2008 12:15 PM


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Certainly high oil prices, the state of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Arab-Israeli conflict were high on the agenda of Vice President Dick Cheney's recent tour of the Middle East. But the subject of Iran was never far from the surface of the trip, which is now wrapping up.

Cheney alleged in an interview Monday that Iran was trying to develop weapons-grade uranium, even though international inspectors have never found such evidence. According to a White House transcript of an interview with ABC's Martha Raddatz, Cheney said:

Obviously, they're also heavily involved in trying to develop nuclear weapons enrichment, the enrichment of uranium to weapons grade levels.


 
 

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His insatiable greed to accumulate more wealth is never satisfied.

Halliburton is not making enough bood money off the backs of our patriotic soldiers in Iraq, he needs to expand his (MIC) war chest to include Iran, not to mention the additional strain on the already overtapped, taxpayer. Like Cheney said, "SO".

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:37 PM on 03/26/2008

If Cheney said 'Good Morning' I'd have to check my watch and look outside to see if the sun was out. There isn't anything he says that I'd trust to be true.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:30 PM on 03/26/2008

Get ready for another Middle East cakewalk.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:15 AM on 03/26/2008

Only someone -- like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, most neocons -- who has never been within sniffing distance of a war is this gung ho about starting one.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:31 AM on 03/26/2008

not to mention they're greedy MFs.

It's more money for Halliburton - war profiteering (blood money) off of the backs of our patriotic soldiers and taxpayers- the Military Industrial Complex.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:17 PM on 03/26/2008

deja vu all over again

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:21 AM on 03/26/2008

Cheney trying to develop EXCUSES despite no evidence.
He'll bomb ANYTHING FOR MONEY.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:13 AM on 03/26/2008

he's not called dick for nothing.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:22 AM on 03/26/2008

Good one

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:09 PM on 03/26/2008

It's time for Cheney to go. Help Congressman Wexler being impeachment hearings.

http://wexlerwantshearings.com/

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:57 PM on 03/25/2008

If he said it, it has to be true. (I don't care what anyone says)!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:19 PM on 03/25/2008

So?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:45 AM on 03/26/2008

NOT AGAIN??!!!!!! Does this administration ACTUALLY, SERIOUSLY think we're gonna fall for THIS charade again?? LUDICROUS!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:12 PM on 03/25/2008

The same ruse worked out pretty well for them last time they used it. In fact they have diverted billions to their friends and will not be held accountable for the disaster they created. Only in America

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:28 PM on 03/26/2008

Can't somebody lock him in his bunker and not let him out until 2009???

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:32 PM on 03/25/2008

...or never let him out....

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:14 PM on 03/26/2008

I was going to type something out, but, this says all that needs saying.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:18 PM on 03/25/2008

I second that!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:47 AM on 03/26/2008

On Air America this morning, there was a report where Saudi Arabia is preparing for an Attack against Iran.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:42 PM on 03/25/2008

Great here comes the next war. Wait until the draft gets reinstated.... Woopie! All while America sits on the empire sofa worrying about the economy and stuffing toxic food down its consuming pit. If only there was a way to make a sofa run on oil. $$

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:17 PM on 03/25/2008

cheney, like most old people with his health issues, suffers from a 30% reduction in blood flow to his brain. He should not be in government.. he should be in a hospital... restrained for the good of all mankind.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:06 PM on 03/25/2008

Hhhmmmmmm! Now where have I heard something like this before? Wait, it'll come to me....Oh yes the war we are already in!

Of course some kind of scare has to happen pretty soon because otherwise McCain will have NOTHING AT ALL to talk about (not that he can get that straight either)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:39 PM on 03/25/2008

Just wait Im sure someone in the administration is cooking up a great domestic terrorist attack as we blog here. Its the perfect justification for their sick agenda.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:19 PM on 03/25/2008

I think you are correct.

Petraeus is starting to TRY to plant the seeds for war with Iran.

Then the MEDIA memes this and it becomes FACT.

I hope they're more RESPONSIBLE this time (the Media).

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:12 PM on 03/26/2008

typo:talking

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:23 PM on 03/25/2008

Well if this Bush/Cheney do start a war with Iran,then we can start taking Armageddon cause all h*ll with break loose for sure in the Middle East ,and the sick minds in chargeBush/cheney know this and want it very scary isn't it people

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:21 PM on 03/25/2008

And now, my good friends, you can sleep nights, I'll continue to stand tall, you can trust me, for I promise, I shall keep a watchful eye upon Iran.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:02 PM on 03/25/2008

It's a sad state of affairs when, as Americans, we cannot trust our leadership any more than we can trust the very adversaries that they target with their rhetoric. War-mongering ideologues bent on regional domination and de-stabilization of sovereign nations? Who are we taliking about here, the Iranian government or our own?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:00 PM on 03/25/2008

This is not the End; it is (is) not even the Begining of the End; but maybe the End of the Begining

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:00 PM on 03/25/2008

No evidence? So?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:58 PM on 03/25/2008

YEAH, NO EVIDENCE never stopped trigger-happy WAR PROFITEER CHENEY and his corporate pals. SO? SO?? McCain [McNUT, McLAME] wants to be GWBUSH #2 for 8 MORE YEARS.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:16 AM on 03/26/2008

We need to stop listening to and promoting this guy!!!!! Doesn't anyone question why they have Cheney out there saying stupid things everyday???? He is just a Rovean ploy to make McCain look like the voice of "sanity"!!!!! IGNORE HIM!!!!!! Stop giving him press!!!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:51 PM on 03/25/2008

If a Democrat is elected in Nov. Bush will bomb Iran right before he leaves office.
If McNutjob is elected, he will be entrusted to do the job as it has been acknowedged that he will be a one term president because of his age and ill health. Nothing to lose there.
Sooo it's Bombs Away for The Old Guy! Maybe then he will feel avenged for Vietnam.

The majority of our leaders are either criminal or just plain fuckin' nuts.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:51 PM on 03/25/2008

Although Cheney is obviously nuts, I think there is probably pleanty of evidence . . . maybe not on HuffPo but all you have to do is listen to their President talk and he'll tell you everything.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:50 PM on 03/25/2008


Maybe its his medication.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:48 PM on 03/25/2008

I'll say one thing for the guy. He never strays very far off message. He's pretty much all fear all the time.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:46 PM on 03/25/2008

PBS is airing a two-part Frontline series called Bush's War. Last night was about the leadup to the war and the Neocon's fabrications. Several times they ran clips of Cheney smugly saying how he "knew" Hussein had wmds. This assh*le evidently never learns.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:40 PM on 03/25/2008
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