Cheney is off on his big adventure.

[bushmeister0]

The Daily Star reports:

"WASHINGTON: US Vice President Dick Cheney left to the Middle East Sunday, hoping to help revive the battered peace process and get Arab allies like Saudi Arabia to do more to curb Iran's influence in Iraq. . .

The political unrest in Lebanon, the situation in Syria, the violence in Gaza, and sky-high oil prices will all come up as Cheney visits Oman, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bank and Turkey, top aide John Hannah said Friday.

'It's a very long list and rich agenda,' said Hannah, the vice president's national security adviser. 'He has quite deep relationships, and personal relationships, with a number of leaders in those countries.'"

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=89963

I bet he does. I'm sure he'll be arriving with his agenda for the rich.

The Daily Star continues:

"Cheney was not expected to press Saudi King Abdullah too much to boost oil output, or push OPEC to do so, in the face of sky-high oil prices that have fueled a bitter debate ahead of the November 4 US elections.

'I'm not sure he'll seek anything more than a good and thorough discussion about the current situation in the global energy markets,' a senior US official told reporters in a pre-trip briefing held on condition he not be named."

Riiiiight, he's not going to discuss the price of oil? Uh huh.

I'm sure he's quite happy with the price of oil and would like it to go much higher. A war with Iran should do the job.

Hear Harry Shearer's memo from the underground vice president

http://www.kcrw.com/media-player/mediaPlayer2.html?type=audio&id=ls080316le_show_-_march_16_2

[spanone]

1. and he's going over there on our dime.

fucking fucker

[FightingIrish]

2. Doesn't it seem strange that he is in the Middle East at

the same time McCain, war layer Graham and Lieberman (I-Israel) are hitting Iraq for spring break? It smells of a pre-invasion confab to me. I guess McCain will get his own war if our electoral process fails us again.

[bushmeister0]

3. He's already got it

as I pointed out here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3004400

he's been working on his hundred years war for decades