Cheney refuses to meet Japanese defense minister

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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/02/13/2003348816

AP, TOKYO
Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007, Page 5

US Vice President Dick Cheney plans to spurn meetings with Japan's defense minister next week in protest over his having called the US-led Iraq war a "mistake," a news report said yesterday.

Cheney is to meet top officers in Japan's Self-Defense Forces during a visit starting next Tuesday but has asked Japan not to schedule any talks with Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma, Kyodo News agency said.

Late last month, Kyuma told reporters the decision to invade Iraq was a "mistake" because it was based on the erroneous assumption that the government of the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

Kyuma later backtracked, saying he meant that the decision to attack Iraq should have been thought through more cautiously.

"I did not say it was a mistake, but I thought at the time {the US} should have been more cautious," Kyuma said.

[bridgit]

1. they should put it in a bottle and sell it: Ode de Chickenhawk...

[Imagevision]

2. Good! more bad reports about Cheney, other world leaders are seeing thru the Bush/Cheney Charade

[tom_paine]

3. Cheney is a cowardly piece of human garbage

People like Hitler and Cheney MUST BE OPPOSED, MUST BE STOOD UP TO!

Kyuma later backtracked (sigh), just like one of our own...

[roamer65]

4. C'mon, Japan...get some balls and kick out all American forces.

Europe needs to do the same.

[Kiouni]

5. so now they won't talk to nations that are

not subservient too them like Iran and also any foreign nation that criticize their administration well geee there are words for governments like this what are they called again?

[baldguy]

6. Cheney is a ten-year old.

[saltpoint]

7. I feel just awful that Uncle Dick's feelings were hurt.

Those nasty Japanese! Who do they think they are?

[wtmusic]

8. The Obama School of Backpedaling

"I didn't mean the Emperor has no clothes, I just meant, er, he could be more appropriately attired."