Posted on 05/11/2007 6:11:16 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
US Vice President Dick Cheney warned Friday from the hangar deck of a US aircraft carrier in the Gulf that the United States will not let Iran get nuclear weapons.
"We'll stand with others to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and dominating this region," he told thousands of sailors on the nuclear-powered USS John C. Stennis as it cruised roughly 240 kilometres (150 miles) from Iran.
Cheney, who spoke as five warplanes stood arrayed behind him, said the US naval presence in the region sent "clear messages to friends and adversaries alike."
North Korea?
...and what exactly are you going to do to stop ‘em?
Talk is cheap.
Has he checked with San Fran Nan and the Senate’s chief Surrender Monkey on that?
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“The 2 greatest dangers America faces in this new time of war are:
1) Iran with a Nuclear weapon
2) The GULLIBILITY of the AMERICAN PEOPLE”
....Conservative Voice THOMAS SEWELL
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Yeah. He told 'em to shut up or he'd take 'em hunting...
I’d add one more:
3) The traitorous fifth column in the Democrat Party.
They will have nukes, but Bush/Cheney are hoping that their successors will get the blame.
The Democrats would not be an issue but for the gullibility thing.
Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates—LAWFUEL - The Law Newswire -
6:15 p.m. (Local)
QUESTION: Mr. Vice President, thanks for being with me.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: It’s good to have you on the trip.
QUESTION: Thanks. This has been interesting, two days in Iraq. You just spent complete days filled with meetings with both commanders and Iraqi leaders. After that, can you point to evidence that the U.S. is making decisive progress there?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, the thing – one item that stood out that everybody mentioned to me is the changes they see in Anbar province, where apparently the locals, the tribal sheikhs, the Sunni population, appears to be turning against al Qaeda. Al Qaeda has been a dominant force in that part of Iraq. It’s been heavily engaged out there for several years. But apparently, it’s reached the point where their conduct in the local community has been such that the Sunni leaders in the region have, in effect, turned against them.
So there are stories, for example, of extensive number of volunteers to serve in the police forces now. It used to be very hard to get anybody out there to volunteer to serve in the police force, be part of the security force sponsored by the government. Now that’s going very smoothly. It’s those kinds of things that I think were important in terms of looking forward to changes on the ground in this situation. I think if you look in Baghdad, the number of sectarian killings, of Sunni-on-Shia and Shia-on-Sunni killings, has gone down. The number of car bombs has gone up. But so I think there are areas where there are beginning to be signs of progress, but it would be a huge mistake to overestimate, or another way to put it, to underestimate how much is yet to be done. There’s still a long way to go.
QUESTION: On the rest of this trip, we’re told by your aides that you’re going to be asking the Saudis and other Arab nations to increase their contacts and influence with Sunnis in Iraq, and yet you mentioned the Sunnis standing up against al Qaeda there. At the same time, the U.S. is pointing to Iran influencing its support and influence with Shiite militias. How do you avoid setting up a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran inside Iraq?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, I don’t think it’s a proxy war at this stage. That’s not the way I perceive it. There are a number of issues to be talked about when you travel in this part of the world these days. Obviously, Iraq is an important part of it. It’s been the dominant theme for the last two days because I’ve been in Iraq. It will be important in terms of my conversations with other governments in the UAE, in Saudi, in Jordan, Egypt. They all have been involved one way or another in U.S. activities and operations in this region over the years. Most of them participated in the conference at Sharm el Sheikh that Condi Rice attended last week aimed at garnering support, both financial and political, for the Maliki government in Iraq.
Separate and apart from that are issues like the Iranians and what the Iranians are up to in the region. And they are obviously a major source of concern not only for the United States but also for most of our friends in the area, who are worried when they see an Iranian government that appears to be operating in a threatening manner given the kinds of statements that are made by Ahmadi-Nejad and while they aggressively pursue the development of enrichment capability that would allow them to enrich uranium to build nuclear weapons and so far have refused to respond to the sanctions package and the resolutions adopted by the United Nations unanimously. So Iran is a big area of concern.
http://lawfuel.com/show-release.asp?ID=12250
...but does the President have the balls to actually use ‘em in an election year?
I doubt it.
1) Iran with a Nuclear weapon
2) The GULLIBILITY of the AMERICAN PEOPLE”
3) The enemy within (liberals, MSM).
The American
By John R. Bolton
Posted: Friday, May 4, 2007
SPEECHES
Conservative Political Action Conference (Washington)
Publication Date: March 1, 2007
And that brings me to my next two subjects, the remaining two-thirds of the axis of evil, Iran and North Korea. In many respects, although our headlines and our minds are filled with the struggle in Iraq and Afghanistan, over the long term the success or failure of the United States in preventing Iran and North Korea from acquiring or keeping their nuclear weapons program will be the real determinant whether we have succeeded in securing America into the future. The threat of the proliferation of all weapons of mass destruction, chemical, biological, or nuclear, is real and it is growing. And particularly, the nuclear threats posed by the North Korean and Iranian programs are serious.
Now, we have seen efforts by the Liberals in the media and on the Hill, and, yes, in the permanent bureaucracy of our own federal government to overturn the administration’s policies; to say that North Korea, Kim Jong Il, can be talked out of his nuclear weapons: “Certainly, he is a reasonable person. We will just bargain with Kim Jong Il, and he will voluntarily give his weapons up.” Do we not all believe that? There are people who would believe that.
My judgment is that nuclear weapons for Kim Jong Il are integral to regime survival, and he is not going to give them up voluntarily. What we have to do is apply pressure, apply sanctions as we have been doing, isolate North Korea further and, finally, to achieve the real solution to the North Korean nuclear weapons problem, eliminate the regime in North Korea and reunite the Korean peninsula.
Similarly, when we look to Iran, we have a regime of fanatic mullahs that have been pursuing nuclear weapons for nearly 20 years. The Europeans, to show that they are not like those unilateralist American cowboys, have been trying to negotiate with the Iranians, have been trying to say to them, “You can have a different relationship with us and, potentially, with the United States if you just suspend your uranium enrichment activities and give up the pursuit of nuclear weapons.” With one small exception for nearly four years, the Iranians have been thumbing their noses at the Europeans. And as time has gone by, the Iranians have come closer and closer to a completely indigenous control over the entire nuclear fuel cycle. And when they achieve that, the only limit on when they weaponize their nuclear capacity depends on how much money that they put into it. It is extremely important that President Bush follow through on what he has said, which is that it is unacceptable for Iran to have nuclear weapons.
Now, I do take President Bush to be a man of his word. And I think when he says, “It is unacceptable for Iran to have nuclear weapons,” what he means is, it is unacceptable. And therefore, although we do not look for additional military encounters, it is critical, particularly, that the Iranian government understand that when the president says he never takes the military option off the table, that he is deadly serious because, ultimately, Iran is watching North Korea; North Korea is watching Iran. And a lot of other states that would like to acquire nuclear weapons are watching both of them. And they are particularly watching the United States.
Let’s face it. While we should work with allies and friends like Japan in the case of North Korea and, hopefully, our European allies, particularly, Israel in dealing with Iran, the only country in the world—the only country in the world—that has the capability of stopping Iran and North Korea from getting nuclear weapons is the United States. And let us not have any illusions about it: That is not unilateralism. That is leadership.
http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.26115/pub_detail.asp
I guess we’ll find out, won’t we.
Party before country with some(too many). If a Dem had gone into Iraq what do you think would be going on here on FR?
We will launch an massive Air/Naval attack against the Iranian terrorist regime to destroy their nuclear facilities and more. This will happen before President Bush leaves office.
Bush and Cheney will do NOTHING to stop them. North Korea? Anyone? Chirp chirp...
Look we have watched this song and dance before. I have lost faith in both of these guys. Let us all hope that the next president will actually back up his words with action. We live in scary times.
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