Cheney the Dick was for Iran having nuclear energy before he was against it.

[LynnTheDem]

So was Donald the Rummy. (Just as they -the US government- supported Saddam Hussein. AFTER the atrocities committed by Hussein.)

And guess who gave the go-ahead?

In 1976 Chief of Staff Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld persuaded President Gerald Ford to approve offering Iran nuclear reprocessing facilities. Cheney and Rumsfeld stated that Iran needed a nuclear program to meet future energy requirements which is what Iranian officials are saying today.

America; the hypocrisy is gonna do us all in.


Links;

Yet Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and outgoing Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz held key national security posts when the Ford administration made the opposite argument 30 years ago.

Ford's team endorsed Iranian plans to build a massive nuclear energy industry, but also worked hard to complete a multibillion-dollar deal that would have given Tehran control of large quantities of plutonium and enriched uranium -- the two pathways to a nuclear bomb.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3983-2005Mar26.html

Eisenhower's Cold War America and the Shah's monarchical Iran then signed their first civil nuclear agreement in 1957. Over the next two decades, right up to the Islamic revolution, the U.S. provided Iran not only technical assistance and training but also its first experimental nuclear reactor, enriched uranium and plutonium with the fissile isotopes. The Shah was never required to furnish any guarantees, not even a verbal commitment, that Iran would not use this technology for the development of nuclear weapons. Even so, and not anticipating the Islamic revolution, the Ford administration approved in the mid-1970s the sale to Iran of up to eight nuclear reactors (with fuel) and then cleared the sale of lasers with known capability for uranium enrichment.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20AH20060129&articleId=1844

[bleever]

1. You're so cynical.

And it's still hard to keep up.

K&R.

[LynnTheDem]

2. I know.

:(

It often happens to Americans who prefer facing the awful facts of what's been done in our names, rather than pretend we're righteous "good guys" who can do no wrong.

Most DUers are cynics.

Most freepers are stupid ignorant MFers.

Hmmmm...wonder if there's any correlation. :rofl:

PS; how ya doing? Not seen you post lately?

:hug:

[bleever]

5. Speaking of cynical,

there's this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3060040

Mostly my posts are in Election Reform, and with my buddies at the Countdown/Keith Olbermann group (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=315) for ongoing commentary (funny/trivial/statesmanlike/hardcore fans of KO) as we watch the show and share our field reports.

:hug:

Happiest of new years to all of us!

[LynnTheDem]

6. Ah yes, the US state-sponsored terrorism via death squads.

America was even indicted & found guilty for 30,000 such civilian deaths.

But of course most Americans haven't a clue about that fact, either.

Not being cynical in this country means being duped over & over & over again by lying politicians.

USA; #53 in freedom of the press.

USA; #18 for civil liberties & freedom.

USA; worse infant mortality rate than Pakistan.

But shhh! Don't tell the US citizens! They may wake up and want to change all that.

Nahhhh. Much easier to remain in denial.

:banghead:

Happy New Year to the world; here's hoping things get better!

[PA Democrat]

3. Hey Lynn, check this out:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3060229

[LynnTheDem]

4. Thanks!

Maybe with pictures being worth 1000 words, more Americans will wake the fuck up to the mind-blowing hypocrisy of the US government- by the very same hypocrites in govt then as now- who play their fucking games for political and/or financial gain, which has resulted, is resulting, in the deaths of our people and other nation's people. And finally perhaps -just maybe- Americans will understand why so many in the world despise us.

And no, it sure as hell ain't because of our "freedoms".