CHENEY WANTED TO BOMB IRAN BUT PENTAGON NIXED THE IDEA

Vice President Dick "Darth Vader" Cheney isn't happy that he helped start one war, the Iraq War that so far has cost 4,090 American lives, he wanted to launch an air strike on Iran last summer but the Pentagon put their foot down and stopped the madness.

Cheney, who used six deferments to avoid military service during the Vietnam War, is only to eager to send young Americans into the Middle East in some cockamamie idea of his that we can establish a democracy in the Middle East.

Apparently Cheney never reads the foreign press which shows most of the Iraqi people want the U.S. military OUT of Iraq ASAP, and the plan to set up permanent U.S. bases in Iraq has been met with loud screams from not only members of the Iraqi parliament, but from the Iraqi public as well who do not want the U.S. occupying Iraq forever.

Cheney is a warmonger who ran from putting himself in the uniform of the military of the United States, but he is eager and willing to send as many young people as possible to die or end up wounded in either Iraq or Iran.

BTW: When was the last time Vice President Dick Cheney visited Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital to see what his handiwork has done? You never read about Cheney going to visit the wounded troops. He ONLY makes appearances before troops who have yet to be sent into combat in Iraq or Afghanistan and they are prompted to applaud him on cue.

COMMENTARY BY BILL CORCORAN, EDITOR OF CORKSPHERE

US/IRAN:Fearing Escalation, Pentagon Fought Cheney Plan

Analysis by Gareth Porter*
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42696

WASHINGTON, Jun 6 (IPS) - Pentagon officials firmly opposed a proposal by Vice President Dick Cheney last summer for airstrikes against Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) bases by insisting that the administration would have to make clear decisions about how far the United States would go in escalating the conflict with Iran, according to a former George W. Bush administration official.

J. Scott Carpenter, who was then deputy assistant secretary of state in the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, recalled in an interview that senior Defence Department (DoD) officials and the Joint Chiefs used the escalation issue as the main argument against the Cheney proposal. McClatchy newspapers reported last August that Cheney had proposal several weeks earlier "launching airstrikes at suspected training camps in Iran", citing two officials involved in Iran policy.

According to Carpenter, who is now at the Washington Institute on Near East Policy, a strongly pro-Israel think tank, Pentagon officials argued that no decision should be made about the limited airstrike on Iran without a thorough discussion of the sequence of events that would follow an Iranian retaliation for such an attack.

Carpenter said the DoD officials insisted that the Bush administration had to make "a policy decision about how far the administration would go -- what would happen after the Iranians would go after our folks."

The question of escalation posed by DoD officials involved not only the potential of the Mahdi Army in Iraq to attack, Carpenter said, but possible responses by Hezbollah and by Iran itself across the Middle East.