Re: @@ Will the western colonialists ever learn? - U.S. professor: "west rejected Khatami and got Ahmadinejad instead" @@

Informed Comment
January 19, 2007

Cheney blew off Iran in 2003
For the Love of God Impeach this Man

Dr. Juan Cole
Professor of Middle East History

Lawrence Wilkerson, an aide to Colin Powell when he was secretary of
state says that Iran in 2003 offered to help stabilize Iraq and to cut
off aid to Hezbollah in Lebanon and to Hamas. Wilkerson says that the
State Department was interested in pursuing the offer, which
presumably came from reformist president Mohammad Khatami. He says
that when the issue was broached with VP Richard Bruce Cheney, Cheney
shot down any notion of "talking to evil".

As if Mohammad Khatami is evil and Richard Bruce Cheney is not.
(Cheney's lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and connection
to 9/11 have gotten hundreds of thousands of people killed).

Because Khatami kept promising that his reforms would make Iranians
better off, and because the U.S. rejected all his overtures and left
him with no achievements to show for them, the Iranian electorate
turned against the reform movement and put Mahmud Ahmadinejad into
power, a loud-mouthed braggart of a sort that Cheney's Likudniks could
then build up into a bogey man to frighten Americans with. Cheney
created Iran as a menace.

What this article doesn't mention is that the rightwing Likud cabal in
Cheney's office, such as [Jew] Irv Lewis Libby, with its connections
to the Israeli far right, almost certainly played a key role in this
rejection. I think John Hannah was already there then, too. [Jew]
David Wurmser came later, after getting up the fraudulent case against
Iraq in the Pentagon "Office of Special Plans" (i.e. foreign policy
plumbers) set up by Likudnik [Jew] Douglas Feith, then the number 3
man in the Pentagon.

http://www.juancole.com/2007/01/cheney-blew-off-iran-in-2003-for-
love.html

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