Cheney's Got His Teeth Sunk into Iran

[Dover]

Cheney's Got His Teeth Sunk into Iran
Friday, 12 January 2007, 10:13 am
Opinion: Russ Wellen


Just Like with Torture, Cheney's Got His Teeth Sunk into Iran

By Russ WellenSo much creative destruction, so little time.

First the Republicans lost their majority status in Congress. Then the Iraq Study Group sent the White House its report card and gave it a failing grade. It looked like Dick Cheney had finally been put in his rightful place –- the ceremonial office vice presidents have traditionally occupied.

But this is a man who's alternately schmoozed and clawed his way to the executive heights in both government and business. Also, he's suffered four heart attacks and the onset of congestive heart failure. Not to mention undergoing a bypass operation, as well as an angioplasty, the implantation of a defibrillator, and the repair of an aneurysm in an artery.

Any resemblance to one of those horror movie characters that can't be killed is not coincidental.

So formidable a foe is Cheney that appointed dragon slayer Patrick Fitzgerald is either still girding his loins or has abandoned his quest to indict him as quixotic. In other words, counting out Cheney is premature. In fact, Robert Dreyfuss recently described him as "suddenly revived."

Those who persist in believing Bush has been counseled to sideline Cheney would be wise to ask themselves this: Which of Bush's advisors suffers from a death wish?..cont'd

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00128.htm

[annabanana]

1. What did it finally take to stop Rasputin?

We may be dealing with his reincarnation...

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Yikes! I guess I can see similarites between the Mad Monk and the....

...Mad Drunk. But, did Rasputin ever shoot anyone in the face?;)

[reprobate]

6. What did it take? He was shot, stabbed, and finally drowned.

You'd probably have to add a nuke to finish 'Crash Cart'

[teryang]

3. good analysis of likely democratic response to "provocation" by...

...Iran:

<...You think the idea that the Democratic Congress would roll over for another war strains credulity? House majority leader Steny Hoyer recently told The Jerusalem Post that he backed negotiations and sanctions. As for air strikes, "I have not ruled that out," he said.

Meanwhile, in a May 2005 speech before Israel lobby AIPAC, Nancy Pelosi said, "The United States will stand with Israel now and forever." Even, one wonders, though Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons?

Watch what happens when the first whiff of public outrage over an Iranian strike, should it occur, wafts past the Democrats' nostrils. The spine the Democrats are finally starting to grow about Iraq notwithstanding, stand clear of the door to the Senate chambers lest you be trampled by Democrats rushing to vote yea to retaliate.

Never forget the slogan that would blazon the Democrats' coat of arms if they had one: "Let no opportunity to boost our defense credibility go unseized." Like taking candy from a baby, Cheney will murmur.>

[peacetalksforall]

4. He serves. He knows he must survive to serve - the people

who put him in place.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. What makes matters worse, is that Cheney has enough money to

buy himself quite a few choppers to sink into many different countries.