CHENEY Believes He MUST TIE BUSH's Hands

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Here's a whopper from thewashingtonnote.com; which explains how the VP is more forceful in shaping America's foreign policy than the sitting president.
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Cheney Attempting to Constrain Bush's Choices on Iran Conflict: Staff Engaged in Insubordination Against President Bush:

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But this is worrisome. The person in the Bush administration who most wants a hot conflict with Iran is Vice President Cheney. The person in Iran who most wants a conflict is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Quds Force would be big winners in a conflict as well -- as the political support that both have inside Iran has been flagging.

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This White House official has stated to several Washington insiders that Cheney is planning to deploy an "end run strategy" around the President if he and his team lose the policy argument.

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The zinger of this information is the admission by this Cheney aide that Cheney himself is frustrated with President Bush and believes, much like Richard Perle, that Bush is making a disastrous mistake by aligning himself with the policy course that Condoleezza Rice, Bob Gates, Michael Hayden and McConnell have sculpted.

According to this official, Cheney believes that Bush can not be counted on to make the "right decision" when it comes to dealing with Iran and thus Cheney believes that he must tie the President's hands.

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-- Steve Clemons


http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002145.php

[Cheroke's Bantu Lover]

Bloody marvelous!

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Folks, please read the whole article. D*ick wants Israel to do a pre-emptive strike so Iran will attack US warships in the Gulf.

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(ABC) EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Intelligence Community Predicted Trouble in Post-Saddam Iraq:

Source: ABC News

ABC News has learned new details about what the intelligence community was telling the White House before the Iraq War about the challenges that would face the United States after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

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In January 2003, the CIA's National Intelligence Council delivered to the White House two reports predicting what the United States would face in Iraq. The reports, which until now were classified, are expected to be released by the Senate Intelligence Friday.

Officials with access to the reports read excerpts to ABC News.

The first report is titled "Principal Challenges in Post-Saddam Iraq." It paints a picture of an Iraq beset by ethnic violence and unlikely to accept democracy. Here are some highlights:

Iraq is unlikely to break apart, but it is "a deeply divided society." There is "a significant chance" that groups would "engage in violent conflict ... unless there is an occupying force to prevent them from doing so."

Neighboring states could "jockey for position ... fomenting ethnic strife inside Iraq."


"Iraq's political culture does not foster political liberalism or democracy."


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/IraqCove ... y?id=32...

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....and we have Mr. D*ck Chaney still yapping, about Iraqis, "we'll be greeted with flowers and sweets"

I bet he has something to say about Iran...

"We thought we knew where Ahmed was.... our intelligence said there were few ahmed’s in Iran at the time...and they didn't like him sort to say...so we decided we don’t want the so called falafel to be a hurtburn"