On carrier in Gulf, Cheney warns Iran.

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/11/on-carrier-in-gulf-cheney-warns-iran/

On carrier in Gulf, Cheney warns Iran.

“Vice President Dick Cheney used the deck of an American aircraft carrier just 150 miles off Iran’s coast as the backdrop today to warn the country that the United States was prepared to use its naval power to keep Tehran from disrupting off oil routes or ‘gaining nuclear weapons and dominating this region.’”


Little of what Mr. Cheney said in the cavernous hangar bay of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. John C. Stennis, one of two carriers whose strike groups are now in the Persian Gulf, was new. Each individual line had, in some form, been said before, at various points in the four-year-long nuclear standoff with Iran, and during the increasingly tense arguments over whether Iran is aiding the insurgents in Iraq.

But Mr. Cheney stitched all of those warnings together, and the symbolism of sending the administration’s most famous hawk to deliver the speech so close to Iran’s coast was unmistakable.

[Captain Hilts]

1. No more speeches on aircraft carriers. PLEASE! nt

[Truthseeker013]

2. On carrier in Gulf, Cheney warns Iran

Mighty brave of him, with enough firepower to sterilize the entire country right below his feet...

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. There is a reason...

That it was often said, in Poppy Bush's administration, that Cheney was best kept locked in the WHite House basement, to keep him out of trouble.

[Drum]

4. Tough talk, chicken hawk....

Another coward who can only speak up while surrounded by folks under arms.

STFU, Dick!

[malaise]

5. Evil thy name is

Dick 'the war criminal' Cheney! :puke:

[annabanana]

6. Yesterday's Daily Show's guest, Reza Aslan warns

that the more we let this bozo run his mouth, the worse he makes the situation. Iran is probably closer to a representative democracy than anyone in the area.. When they have sabers rattled in their direction, the veer to the right..

[IndyOp]

7. K&R. LEAVE IRAN ALONE. (n/t)