paranoiacs and power

May 13, 2009 22:53

Jebus.

"We fail to recognize the fact that we're alone out there in terms
of trying to achieve the objective of forcing the Iranians to give up
their nuclear weapons," Cheney said at a dinner following the Intelligence Squared debate,
in which Elizabeth Cheney and former Coalition Provisional Authority
spokesman Dan Senor debated former diplomat Nicholas Burns and Mideast
scholar Ken Pollack on the topic of negotiations with Iran.

The former Vice President characterized the Iranian goal in
negotiations on ending that country's nuclear program as mere stalling
for time, and the Europeans as trying to "restrain the U.S." from
military action.

"Everybody's in a giant conspiracy to achieve a different objective than the one we want to achieve," Cheney said.

Your former vice president, ladies and gentlemen.

H/T TPM.

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