University of Michigan Professor, Juan Cole, calls for Cheney's impeachment

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http://www.juancole.com/2007/01/cheney-blew-off-iran-in-2003-for-love.html

On the grounds that he, other right wingers, and certain persons connected to
Israel rejected Iran's peace offers in 2003. He argues that "they" wanted an
an Iranian boogie man to further their neo con agenda.

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Lawrence Wilkerson, an aide to Colin Powell when he was secretary of state says that Iran in 2003
offered to help stabilize Iraq and to cut off aid to Hizbullah in Lebanon and to Hamas. Wilkerson
says that the State Department was interested in pursuing the offer, which presumably came from
reformist president Mohammad Khatami. He says that when the issue was broached with VP Richard
Bruce Cheney, Cheney shot down any notion of "talking to evil." As if Mohammad Khatami is evil and
Richard Bruce Cheney is not. (Cheney's lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and connection
to 9/11 have gotten hundreds of thousands of people killed).

Because Khatami kept promising that his reforms would make Iranians better off, and because the US
rejected all his overtures and left him with no achievements to show for them, the Iranian electorate
turned against the reform movement and put Mahmud Ahmadinejad into power, a loud-mouthed
braggart of a sort that Cheney's Likudniks could then build up into a bogey man to frighten Americans
with. Cheney created Iran as a menace.

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Fascism depends on the creation of straw man enemies said to be dire threats to the Homeland. Iran
is a poor weak third world country and poses no threat to the US. It hasn't aggressively invaded another
country for over a century. But Cheney needs Iran to substitute for the old Soviet Union, otherwise how
could he get you to agree to let him listen in on your telephone calls without a warrant, or let him torture people?

Cheney is the much bigger threat to the integrity of the US constitution than any foreign force. He should
be impeached. If lying about a tawdry affair that did not even get to third base is grounds for impeachment,
then lying us into a war, slapping Iran's overtures away and setting the stage for another war, and outing a
CIA operative certainly are.