Washington ‘hawks’ oppose EU3 incentives plan for Iran (Cheney, Bolton...)

[sabra]

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f5f3b27c-ea7f-11da-9566-0000779e2340.html

Washington ‘hawks’ oppose EU3 incentives plan for Iran

Opposition by US “hawks” led by Dick Cheney, the vice-president, is complicating efforts by the main European powers to put together an agreed package of incentives aimed at persuading Iran to suspend its nuclear fuel cycle programme, according to diplomats and analysts in Washington.

London is hosting on Wednesday political directors of the “EU3” of France, Germany and the UK, together with China, Russia and the US to look at the twin tools of incentives and sanctions.

Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state, was said by one diplomat to have “gone out on a limb” in an attempt to back the EU3’s package of incentives but was facing resistance from Mr Cheney who is playing a more visible role in US foreign policy. Another diplomat said US internal divisions were holding up an agreement with the Europeans.

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Mr Cheney is said to oppose the notion of “rewarding bad behaviour” following Iran’s alleged breaches of its nuclear safeguards commitments. The hawks – who include John Bolton, the US envoy to the UN, and Bob Joseph, a senior arms control official – fear a repeat of a similar agreement reached with North Korea in 1994 which did not stop the communist regime from pursuing a secret weapons programme.

[Javaman]

1. Because it doesn't involve bombing them back to the pre-atomic age...nt

[UpInArms]

2. I'm certain it was an oversight - but that title should have read

Washington ‘chickenhawks’ oppose EU3 incentives plan for Iran

http://www.nhgazette.com/news/chickenhawks/chickenhawk_headquarters/

Chickenhawk Headquarters




Name: George W. Bush (R-TX)
Born: 1946
Employer: The U.S. Taxpayer
Conflict Avoided: Vietnam
Notes: You know when a guy walks away from a National Guard obligation during wartime and gets away with it, he must come from "a good family." Not that his daddy had anything to do with his getting a Guard slot in the first place - oh, no ...




Name: Richard "Dick" Cheney (R-WY)
Born: 1942
Employer: The U.S. Taxpayer
Conflict Avoided: Vietnam
Notes: Says he had "other priorities." You bet he had other priorities. Imagine how early in life you must begin scheming to get away with what this guy has. He was too busy thinking about Halliburton to go fight Charlie.




Name: Karl Rove
Born: 1950
Employer: Baal
Conflict Avoided: Vietnam
Notes: This little cherub was born on Christmas Day, 1950. Karl “Bush’s Brain” Rove ran George W.’s campaign, right down to the tiny detail of deciding Bush was going to run. The hardest part was convincing a horde of Republican skeptics that it could be done.

He is said to have said of his boss, he’s "the kind of candidate and officeholder political hacks like me wait a lifetime to be associated with."

Now Karl’s Senior White House advisor. If he really is “Bush’s Brain,” and if the fondest wishes of former US Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV come true, one fine day Karl will be “frogmarched out of the White House in mandcuffs.”

Will history record that event as “Bush’s Lobotomy?”





Name: Paul Wolfowitz
Born: 1943
Employer: The U.S. Taxpayer
Conflict Avoided: Vietnam
Notes: Deputy Secretary for Defense - yet another Bush administration man in the Pentagon who has no idea what it's like to wear a uniform. He got a BA at Cornell in 1965. Maybe if we'd had a guy as bright as he thinks he is in Vietnam, it would have turned out differently.

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Name: Donald "The Don" Rumsfeld
Born: 1932
Employer: The U.S. Taxpayer
Conflict Avoided: Korea
Notes: When the shooting started in Korea Rummy here was either 18, or about to turn 18. Not to worry for him, though — he spent the war at Princeton, wearing a ROTC uniform. Once the war was over he flew jets for the Navy for a few years. Defenders of Rumsfeld will say he’s no chickenhawk — he served, and it’s not his fault the war ended before he got his commission. To which others answer, “plenty of farmers and mechanics and kids just out of high school served. Anyone as full of whatever that stuffing in him is, could have tried out for a battlefield commission.”

[sabra]

3. LOL

[acmavm]

4. Someone please tell me that no one really expected these

murderous bastards to agree with any plan that they might have come up with. I mean, that would have been some colossal collective stupidity if they thought these assholes woould go for anything that didn't involve bombs, guns, and death.

[annabanana]

5. of course they do... that's what they're THERE for.... . n/t

[Roland99]

6. I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

[Orsino]

7. The MSM is actually *daring* to report...

...that these fuckers want war?

Someone forgot to insert the spin.

[maseman]

8. I'm sick of this crooked faced FUCK!

Cheney is pure hellfire evil. He looks like satan without the horns unless they are buried under his comb-over.

These guys want people both inside our country and out to fear the US. The want Americans to fear terrorists and the constant threat terrorists pose to us. Conversely, they want the rest of the world to fear our military might. Their quick war in Iraq was to show the world "BE SCARED." But they failed miserably. Now people at home are starting to fear the Shrub regime more than terrorists.

I don't think the administration can do anything but stay the course now. They know if they back off Iran or pull out of Iraq that they will loose the rest of their 33% approval from their fundy-freak base.

COunting the days my friends to the end of this Fascist group of assholes.