Cheney: Now is the Time to Attack “Apocalyptic” Iran

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Cheney: Now is the Time to Attack “Apocalyptic” Iran

Dick Cheney “has endorsed Republican senator John McCain’s proposition that the only thing worse than a military confrontation with Iran would be a nuclear-armed Iran,” reports the Herald Sun. “The visiting Vice-President said that he had no doubt Iran was striving to enrich uranium to the point where they could make nuclear weapons.”

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Cheney “accused Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of espousing an ‘apocalyptic philosophy’ and making ‘threatening noises about Israel and the US and others,’” the Herald Sun continues. “He also said Iran was a sponsor of terrorism, especially through Hezbollah. However, the US did not believe Iran possessed any nuclear weapons as yet,” as there is, once again, no evidence of this, not that such has stopped the neocons in the past.

As for Ahmadinejad’s supposed “apocalyptic philosophy,” recall last August a bevy of hysterical neocons, led by the grand daddy of Islamophobia, Bernard Lewis, warning that August 22 “might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and if necessary of the world,” based on the Shi’a religious belief in the return of the Mahdi, also known as the “Hidden Imam.” Bill Kristol, prominent neocon and Straussian Machiavellian, declared August 22 “an important symbolic day for jihadists. And I’m curious to see what happens… may just say no or he may do something a little more dramatic, launch a missile or something” (see Neoconservatives Predict The Apocalypse Starts Tomorrow).

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“You get various estimates of where the point of no return is,” said Cheney, citing Iran’s supposed desire to build nukes. “Is it when they possess weapons or does it come sooner, when they have mastered the technology but perhaps not yet produced fissile material for weapons?”

Interestingly, this is an admission by Cheney that Iran does not possess nuclear weapons. Instead, Cheney suggests attacking Iran because, some day down the road, the country may have the capability to produce a nuke or two. As we know, of course, Israel and the neocons are anxious to attack Iran not because of any nuclear potential, now or in ten or fifteen years (as the CIA suggests), but because, for Israel, the Islamic nation is too big for its britches. “An effective approach, and one with which American can sympathize, would be if Israel seized the strategic initiative along its northern borders by engaging Hizballah, Syria, and Iran,” the neocons wrote in the Clean Break document, drafted for Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996. Dissolving Iran, Iraq, Syria, indeed the entire Arab and Muslim Middle East, into “ethnically or religiously unique areas,” as suggested earlier by Oded Yinon, is the objective.

“In the long term when we look back on this period of time that will be a remarkable achievement,” said Cheney, reflecting, as Marquis de Sade, or rather Pol Pot might have, on the carnage and massive suffering and misery he has wrought. “We’re not there yet. We’ve still got a lot to do.”

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1. There certainly is a lot left to do.........

They haven't privatized Social Security, and they haven't started a total world war yet.......