Cheney: Let’s Lure Iran Into War
September 24, 2007 (Reuters)– Vice President Dick Cheney has considered asking Israel to launch limited missile strikes at an Iranian nuclear site to provoke a retaliation, Newsweek magazine reported yesterday. ( Read the Newsweek article here )
The news comes amid reports that Israel launched an airstrike against Syria this month over a suspected nuclear site.
Citing two unidentified sources, Newsweek said Cheney’s former Middle East adviser, David Wurmser, told a small group several months ago that the vice president was considering asking Israel to strike the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz.
A military response by Iran could give Washington an excuse to then launch airstrikes of its own, Newsweek reported.
Wurmser’s wife, Meyrav Wurmser of the neoconservative Hudson Institute think tank, told Newsweek the claims were untrue.
David Wurmser left Cheney’s office last month, the magazine reported.
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Who needs an excuse? We have a REASON! EFPs, missles, and infiltrators.
September 24th, 2007 at 7:16 amNewsweek is unreliable. They will make shit up and hope some of it comes true. “Unidentified sources” indeed.
Who would be surprised at a Gulf of Tonken deal going on anyway?
September 24th, 2007 at 7:32 amLURE????? What the hell has been going on for the past 4 years? or 20 years?
September 24th, 2007 at 7:49 amAhhh yes. And here comes Newsweak with the first of MANY (NO WMD) conspiracy theory’s before the war has even started.
September 24th, 2007 at 7:50 amIf there were indeed such plan it would be a top level national security plan. I doubt this information would easily make it into the hands of NewsWeek. What a crock of shit.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:15 amA lot of this stuff is being released to MSM. Top secret plans for attacking Iran have become increasingly common stories. Either we have an anti-war hack in the CIA who is hoping to defuse an attack by releasing this kind of stuff, or the administration is deliberately releasing it to pressure the Mullahs to capitulate.
September 24th, 2007 at 8:54 amLike newsweek does better than Dan Rather in telling the truth or investigating anything… I really believe that…
September 24th, 2007 at 9:07 amIgnor the source. “Newspapers… serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.” - Thomas Jefferson
September 24th, 2007 at 9:12 amLast I saw the American military is in no condition to start another war. Haven’t we learned anything from the “Let’s free Iraq, set up democracy” to “Let’s let them decide what form of government they want” to “please any government will do so we can stand down” war. Cheney. For God’s sake fade away.
September 24th, 2007 at 9:13 amThe goal isn’t to set up a democracy. The goal is to eradicate a problem. I think is would be better to eliminate the threat now before we see Iran blackmail the world.
September 24th, 2007 at 9:40 am“President Bush was actually born on Pluto and want’s to impose harsh Plutonian Imperial rule on Americans and the world through control of all the worlds oil.” an unidentified source in the White House said.
See, I can make up a bunch of shit too.
September 24th, 2007 at 10:07 amMess,
You are right, the goal is not to set up a democracy…but it was when we invaded. This is the main reason the neocons have been peeled back one by one. Their plan has gone seriously awry. What are we going to end up with in Iraq? With an unchecked sourthern Iraq the country will end up with a governement that will be hard for us to swallow. A government that will be closer to Iran than ever in the history of the modern state of Iraq. No positive government could ever come from conditions that now exist in Iraq. The government in Iraq lives in the bubble known as the Green Zone. Our policy there will go from fear of AQ influence to fear of the spread of Iranian style government.
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September 24th, 2007 at 10:30 amKipp, I still hope Iraq can turn into a friendly democracy. If that is the best possible outcome, what is wrong with working toward that goal? Lets say you had absolute power as the president, do you think you could come up with a strategy for winning the war? As long as you think its possible under what you would do, then support your solution rather than leaving simply because you are pissed off that they wont use your idea.
September 24th, 2007 at 12:43 pmKipp,
I respectfully disagree with your position on the Iraq, “No positive government could ever come from conditions that now exist in Iraq”. Watching what is happening in Iraq, the surge, ongoing war several years from its onset, I feel that the jury is still out on the final outcome on Iraq. I will submit that Yes, there clearly are problems and they will not be resolved in the near future.
My original point being is the dangers in not dealing with Iran are far greater now than the dangers presented by Saddam Hussan in 2003. Iran is a dictatorship bent on regional domination through the use of force. The dangers here are greater than the dangers presented by Adolf Hitler 1930’s once one adds the nuclear weapons component to the mix.
If we do nothing (which is what negotiations with this dictator truly is), do we want a nuclear armed Iran? Iran being the worlds largest exported of terrorism. Iran being a nation bent on the destruction of another nation and the western way of life.
I just think the price tag is too high considering the nuke factor regardless of the issues in Iraq.
September 24th, 2007 at 1:05 pm