Walker's World: Iran strike -- Rumsfeld says No, Cheney says Maybe

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http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20060914-084551-1264r

Walker's World: No Iran strike -- Rumsfeld
By MARTIN WALKER
UPI Editor Emeritus

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The iron triangle may be bending. According to military and former high-level administration sources, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is raising serious objections to what President George W. Bush calls "the military option" that could prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

This heralds the first important policy breech between the triumvirate of Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld, sometimes known in Washington as "the iron triangle," in almost six years of the Bush administration.

The Office of the Secretary of Defense, Washington shorthand for Rumsfeld and his immediate staff, is not so much saying 'No' directly, the sources told United Press International, as listing a series of important objections to the military option.

By contrast, added the sources who asked to remain anonymous, Cheney has stepped up his advocacy of the military option by saying that the recent hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon have made it more feasible, by weakening the prospect that Iran could retaliate by pressing Hezbollah to unleash a wave of rocket attacks against Israel.

on a side note, Cheney met with Bibi last week:

http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=4550

Netanyahu, Cheney meet

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu met Vice President Dick Cheney.
The leader of Israel’s opposition Likud Party met with Cheney and top senators Tuesday on a visit to Washington to explain Israel’s position on containing Hezbollah and Iran.

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1. Cheney is making that last push for Iran...

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2. ....

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