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Arrogant U$ War Criminal Cheney: 'We Will Not Allow' Iran Nukes <= too late now, jackass!

Cheney: 'We Will Not Allow' Iran Nukes
Vice President Threatens 'Serious' Consequences
By JOHN HENDREN
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21, 2007 -


Vice President Dick Cheney today issued his sternest warning to date on Iran, saying
the Persian nation will not be allowed to pursue its nuclear program.

Dismissing Iran's claims that it is seeking only nuclear energy and not a weapons
program, Cheney accused Iranian leaders of pursuing a practice of "delay and
deception in an obvious effort to buy time."

"Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a
terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions," Cheney told the Washington
Institute for Near East Studies. "The Iranian regime needs to know that if it stays
on its present course the international community is prepared to impose serious
consequences."

The rising rhetoric could signal that President Bush intends to take action --
possibly military action -- to halt Iran's nuclear program before the president
leaves office on Jan. 20, 2009, some analysts said.

"That's pretty firm, clear language," Michael O'Hanlon, a military analyst for
the
Brookings Institution, told ABC News of Cheney's wording. "And it raises more clearly
the specter of military action. That is much more than saying this isn't just an
option that we've taken off the table."

Cheney's statement bore a striking resemblance to this warning before an audience of
Republicans on Jan. 31, 2003, less than two months before the U.S. invasion of Iraq:
"We will not permit a brutal dictator with ties to terror and a record of feckless
aggression to dominate the Middle East and to threaten the United States."

A spokeswoman for the vice president said his statements today echoed his previous
comments on Iran.

On March 7, 2006, for instance, he told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee,
"And we join other nations in sending that regime a clear message: We will not allow
Iran to have a nuclear weapon."

And on May 11, 2007, he said, "We'll stand with others to prevent Iran from gaining
nuclear weapons and dominating this region."

But analysts said the administration's talk on Iran has taken on a tone of rising
warning and aggressiveness, particularly on a week that included an unusually
strongly worded admonition from President Bush earlier this week.

"We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel,"
Bush
told reporters at the White House. "So I've told people that if you're interested in
avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them
from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."

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