Cheney Trying to Lure Iran into War with Israel

NOT ONLY IS THIS THE NEO-CON MENTALITY, THIS IS THE MENTALITY OF IMPERIALIST NATIONS THAT THINK THEY CONTROL THE WORLD AND CANNOT BE TOUCHED. THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT JUST LOVE WAR AND THE MONEY THAT CAN BE MADE OFF OF THAT WAR B/C THEY ARE JUST MINDLESS SHEEP WHO DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER. THE FACT IS WHENEVER A NATION OR TERRITORY OR WHOMEVER IS ATTACKED, THAT NATION HAS THE RIGHT TO ATTACK BACK IF THEY SO CHOOSE THE PEOPLE WHO ATTACKED THEM. THE STRANGE THING ABOUT THE NEO-CONS AND ANY LIBERALS IS THAT THEY THINK THEY CAN ATTACK OTHER NATIONS AND GET ISRAEL IN THIS CASE TO ATTACK IRAN AND THAT IRAN, IN THIS CASE DOES NOT HAVE TO RIGHT TO DEFEND ITS COUNTRY OR THE CITIZENS OF THEIR NATION. IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE RUSSIA, CHINA AND OTHER JUMP IN THIS CONFLICT B/C THEY HAVE INTEREST INVESTED IN IRAN AND OTHER NATIONS THAT THEY DEPEND ON. IT IS JUST A SICK MENTALITY WHERE YOU TELL SOMEONE, LOOK, IF I HIT YOU IN YOUR MOUTH OF MY FRIEND DOES YOU CAN'T FIGHT BACK, IF YOU DO I WILL KILL YOU. WELL, PEOPLE, THAT IS WHAT THE NEO-CON BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS DOING AND THAT IS WHAT GOOD OLD DICK IS SAYING. I WOULD NOT HOLD IT PAST THEM.

AFP
Monday September 24, 2007

US Vice President Richard Cheney has considered provoking an exchange of military strikes between Iran and Israel in order to give the United States a pretext to attack Iran, Newsweek magazine reported in its Monday issue.

But the weekly said the steady departure of neoconservatives from the administration over the past two years had helped tilt the balance away from war.

One official who pushed a particularly hawkish line on Iran was David Wurmser, who had served since 2003 as Cheney's Middle East adviser, the report said.

A spokeswoman at Cheney's office confirmed to Newsweek that Wurmser left his position last month to "spend more time with his family."

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A few months before he quit, Wurmser told a small group of people that Cheney had been mulling the idea of pushing for limited Israeli missile strikes against the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz -- and perhaps other sites -- in order to provoke Tehran into lashing out, the magazine reported, citing two unnamed "knowledgeable sources."

The Iranian reaction would then give Washington a pretext to launch strikes against military and nuclear targets in Iran, Newsweek reported.

When Newsweek attempted to reach Wurmser for comment, his wife, Meyrav, declined to put him on the phone and said the allegations were untrue, the report said.

A spokeswoman at Cheney's office told the weekly the vice president "supports the president's policy on Iran."