Cheney considered provoking Iran war with Israeli strikes

[babylonsister]

I know, 'duh'.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/23/cheney-considered-provoking-iran-war-with-israeli-strikes/

Cheney considered provoking Iran war with Israeli strikes.

According to Newsweek magazine, Vice President Dick Cheney considered a plan to allow Israel to conduct missile strikes against Iran’s nuclear sites “in an effort to draw a military response from Iran, which could in turn spark a U.S. offensive against targets in the Islamic Republic”:

(T)he magazine quoted David Wurmser, until last month Cheney’s Middle East advisor, as having 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.”

According to the report, “The Iranian reaction would then give Washington a pretext to launch strikes against military and nuclear targets in Iran.”

Newsweek said that it had corroborated Wurmser’s remarks, which it said were first published by Washington foreign-policy blogger Steven Clemons.

[spanone]

1. he's such a dick

[progpen]

3. There is special ring in Dante's hell

waiting for that freak.

[beberocks]

2. Cheney is a sick, evil old man who can't wait to start WWIII. n/t

[babylonsister]

4. It does seem that way; look up warmonger, see his pic. nt