Cheney Considered asking Israel to lanch missile strikes at Iran to provoke a retaliation

[RangerRK]

Did everyone read this already? I just heard Kucinich speak about it in a youtube video...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney had at one point considered asking Israel to launch limited missile strikes at an Iranian nuclear site to provoke a retaliation, Newsweek magazine reported on Sunday.

The news comes amid reports that Israel launched an air strike against Syria this month over a suspected nuclear site.

Citing two unidentified sources, Newsweek said former Cheney Middle East adviser David Wurmser told a small group several months ago that Cheney was considering asking Israel to strike the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz.

A military response by Iran could give Washington an excuse to then launch airstrikes of its own, Newsweek said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2323126720070923?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

[bluevoter4life]

1. Gee, I don't think anyone saw that coming *rolls eyes* n/t

[Kelly Rupert]

2. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised

if Cheney considered asking Lithuania to launch missile strikes at Latvia, just for the hell of it.

[RangerRK]

3. Is anyone seeing this thread?

It keeps saying that I am hiding it, then I click to unhide it, then the box says it is hidden again WTF??

[monktonman]

4. Peek-a-boo! ICU

[RangerRK]

5. cool thanks

but no matter how many times I click it- it says it is hidden again.

[kenny blankenship]

6. This is sounding an awful lot like the MIHOP modus operandi, ain't it?

And coming from such a respectable news organization too!

If a leader blithely asks another country to instigate a war with a 3rd country and to take civilian casualties in retaliation from the attacked 3rd party so he can jump in and destroy that 3rd country, I think it's safe to say he's not above doing the same kind of thing to his own country's citizens.

There's one question about 9/11 that we can cross off the list.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

8. Ha! Conspiracy theorists!!!!

:rofl:

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

7. Why doesn't Newsweek report the inciteful activities DICK has already exercised?

:shrug: Just wonderin'.

[RangerRK]

9. good point

But we take what we can get- and maybe just MAYBE they have an conscience and want to stop the war in Iran?

[RangerRK]

10. Has this story already made the rounds?

I can't understand why this isn't top news.

We are belittled for suggesting 9/11 was planned so we could retaliate against the entire middle east,
and now Cheney is admitting that he wants to do it again(with Israel's help)??

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

12. Yes. I believe we chewed and gnawed on it a week or so ago.

Of course, if (when) DICK conspires to utilize another nation's military resources in order to indirectly FORCE the U.S. into a war with a 3rd nation, that would constitute a crime of the highest order (along the 'high crime and misdemeanor') lines.

DICK and his neominions all ready engaged in a conspiracy to incite Iraq into retaliatory activity in order to indirectly force the U.S. into a war with Iraq. It didn't work. No less a crime, though, than the fraud he committed against the U.S. people into a unilateral war against Iraq.

My guess is DICK and his meominions have also engaged in a conspiracy to provoke Iran on numerous occasions.

[RangerRK]

11. no one cares?

but Pitt's thread about who will vote for the nominee no matter what gets 770 responses?

[SteveM]

13. Caring is one thing, opposition is another thing entirely...

The biggest problem for "progressives" is to learn how to effect meaningful change (opposition). We haven't done it by raking the GOP over the coals (the Far Right which controls the GOP couldn't care less about "their" party's electoral problems); we haven't done it by pressuring the Democratic Party.

And there's a bigger problem: what does all this "Fingertips" (apologies to Stevie Wonder) we engage in everyday have to do with opposition? Opposition DEMANDS community and thereby legitimacy; otherwise we are jacking around on the "cutting edge" of individuation. I've been in scores of demonstrations from the 60's; marches, sit-ins, civil disobedience, guerrilla theater, etc. Yet when I go to hep cat coffee houses in a "cool" city, everyone's tapping keyboards, on the cell, or thumbing some pocket radio -- you can't even get a good conversation going!! And demonstrations (when they occur) are thinly peopled by the usual suspects: college students supporting a myriad of self-righteous causes GUARANTEED to turn-off millions of folks who are sick and tired of Bush and the Far Right. Really, demonstrations today look and even sound like they did FORTY YEARS AGO, except now they are small, quaint, moving museum pieces.

I look forward to hearing from the modern wired crowd as to what will work NOW.

"If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them." --Basuto proverb.

[lovuian]

14. I have heard from Russian papers Israel will strike first then

us on the second strike another confrimation of the plan