Cheney: Iran May Have Resumed Weapon Program

[Purveyor]

Retaining his tough stance against Iran, Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that Tehran may have restarted the nuclear weaponization program that a U.S. intelligence report said was halted in 2003.

Speaking in Oman, a U.S.-allied Arab monarchy and neighbor of Iran's, Cheney told ABC News, "The important thing to keep in mind is the objective that we share with many of our friends in the region, and that is that a nuclear-armed Iran would be very destabilizing for the entire area."

In December an intelligence report known as the National Intelligence Estimate concluded that Iran's nuclear weapons development program was stopped in the fall of 2003 because of international pressure. The report, however, cautioned that Tehran continues to enrich uranium and still could develop a bomb between 2010 and 2015 if it decided to do so.

Critics of the Bush administration said the report should dampen any campaign for a U.S. confrontation with Iran.

But Cheney that that while the NIE said Iran had a program to develop a nuclear warhead, it remains unclear if it has resumed that activity.

"What it (the NIE) says is that they have definitely had in the past a program to develop a nuclear warhead; that it would appear that they stopped that weaponization process in 2003. We don't know whether or not they've restarted," he said.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/03/17/international/i075913D81.DTL

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. Of couuurse they have Dick. Riiight.

As if any sentient person would believe anything you say, you asshole.

[NightWatcher]

2. by all means then Dick, pick up a gun and take the bastards on

just dont send anymore of our troops to die for your hunches or lies

[IntravenousDemilo]

3. If Cheney says the sky is a lovely shade of cloudless blue, expect hail the size of softballs. n/m

[no_hypocrisy]

4. "May have resumed" a program that never existed????

[Clear Blue Sky]

5. Key word is "may". Could also say "may not". It's called spin.

[magellan]

6. And he's so worried he went fishing...with the Sultan of Oman no less.

It's not what they say, it's what they DO....

[marmar]

7. And here we go again.....

Crashcart on the loose!

[lutefisk]

8. Isolated, delusional madman. He really does make his own reality.n/t

[LiberalEsto]

9. Cheney may have resumed lying

and spewing slugs and frogs from his ugly mouth

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. Even if they haven't we will lie and say they have, just in time for the next "election".

Here we go again!

[tom_paine]

11. It's lie, lie, lie 100% of time with these monsters.

Yeah, Dick, they just restarted it up.

These fuckers still want to nuke Iran, and they just may do it.

Who is going to stop them?

[SoCalDem]

12. and Mc Cain "may" choose this guy for a running-mate

[KG]

13. Dick Cheney = Lie Dispenser

[fascisthunter]

14. BREAKING: Cheney is Probably Lying... AGAIN!

since he's been caught in numerous other lies.:sarcasm:

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. Probably lying? LOL! If his lips are moving, he IS lying!

[fascisthunter]

17. ooops... forgot the sarcasm emoticon

[champion-these-facts]

16. nuclear is an attractive energy source....

...especially if you don't have internal forces against it.
You can use nuclear for energy, then sell oil for profit.
Sounds logical, and with a particular business savvy that certain glutenous, greedy, dig every drop out of the ground oil men might not be capable of embellishing.

Most sources say even if they were to seek development of a deployable nuke, it was 10 years off.
Fact is, if the country stays uninformed and out of touch, such grand scale hoaxes will be ever among us.

[SOS]

18. Meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia....

Saudia Arabia working on secret nuclear program with Pakistan help - report
03.28.2006,

BERLIN (AFX) - Saudi Arabia is working secretly on a nuclear program, with help from Pakistani experts, the German magazine Cicero reported in its latest edition, citing Western security sources.

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2006/03/28/afx2629000.html