from Newshog:
http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2007/02/dick-cheney-blunder-down-under-tour.htmlFriday, February 23, 2007
What is it with Australia and Bush administration officials? No sooner is Gen. Peter pace back from the "Denials" tour of the antipodes when Dick "draftdodger" Cheney launches his own tour to undermine the White House line.
Unheedful of his own administrations insistence that the US wants a peaceful resolution to its dispute with Iran over that nation's nuclear power program, Cheney insists that "all options are on the table" and, incidentally, comes out at odds with Bush's wish for the White House to appear neutral in the Republican presidential nominee race by endorsing John McCain and his view of foreign policy as war forevaaaah! (Maybe Cheney is why senior UK defense officials worry the rhetoric of a peaceful solution is just a cover for the coming attack.)
Unmindful of Bush's push of the recent North Korean nuke deal as a glorious victory for his administration, Cheney insists that he doesn't trust the North Koreans to keep their end of the deal. If the administration really thought that, then the whole deal would be a sham, a fake, a subterfuge to look like they were doing somehting, right? Way to undermine your (at least theoretical) boss, Dick!
Oh, and at the same time, Cheney picks on a recent Chinese anti-satellite test as a sure sign of Chinese belligerence.
Uncaring that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs recently described that very test thusly: "I would not directly tie that to a threat - it's a capability."
more:
http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2007/02/dick-cheney-blunder-down-under-tour.htmlhttp://journals.democraticunderground.com/bigtree
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