No moral equivalence is a right-wing by-word, isn't it? :eyes:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Cheney.html?ei=5094&en=d94bef5e1b27c503&hp=&ex=1146888000&partner=homepage&pagewanted=printMay 5, 2006
Cheney Says Iran Should Renounce Nuclear Weapons
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 11:59 a.m. ET
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney, visiting Kazakhstan Friday, said that Iran should follow the example the Central Asian set several years ago in renouncing nuclear weapons.
At a news conference, Cheney also shrugged off Russian criticism of a speech he delivered Thursday that accused President Vladimir Putin of backsliding on democracy and using energy resources as political leverage against European countries.
''We need to find a way diplomatically to avoid a kind of problem that would result from Iran-developed nuclear weapons,'' Cheney told reporters after unexpectedly lengthy talks with President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
He said the United States is working with others to try to find a ''diplomatic solution to avoid a confrontation over this issue.''
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American energy companies are heavily invested in that nation's oil industry, and Halliburton, the company Cheney ran before becoming vice president, has an oil-field services presence there.