Be: Cheney blew off Iran in 2003, For the Love of God, Impeach this Man

Friday, January 19, 2007
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Cheney blew off Iran in 2003, For the Love of God, Impeach this Man

Juan Cole
Informed Comment
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:47 EST

Lawrence Wilkerson, an aide to Colin Powell when he was secretary of state says that Iran in 2003 offered to help stabilize Iraq and to cut off aid to Hizbullah in Lebanon and to Hamas. Wilkerson says that the State Department was interested in pursuing the offer, which presumably came from reformist president Mohammad Khatami. He says that when the issue was broached with VP Richard Bruce Cheney, Cheney shot down any notion of "talking to evil." As if Mohammad Khatami is evil and Richard Bruce Cheney is not. (Cheney's lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and connection to 9/11 have gotten hundreds of thousands of people killed).

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