Dick Cheney warns of Israeli preemptive strike on Iran
By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
Fmr. Vice President Dick Cheney (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
It is no secret that Israel has problems with Iran. Just last month I published an article about Israeli leaders pushing other Western nations to present a credible military threat to Iran and according to former Vice President under George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, this is nothing new.
Cheney revealed that, through meetings with a number of Israeli officials, the Israelis “correctly perceive Iran as a basic threat” and thus “will do whatever they have to do to guarantee their survival and security.”
Cheney’s assessment doesn’t seem too far off, especially given the heavy handed anti-Iranian rhetoric coming out of Israel as of late.
However, Cheney would not point to a specific Israeli leader saying, “I wouldn’t want to do that,” thereby implying that if he wanted to, he could “attribute it to any one particular Israeli leader” if he wanted to.
Obviously Cheney would have no interest in painting any Israeli leaders in a negative light given his tight relationship with Israel and his former position as a proxy for Israeli interests in the White House.
This proxy status was emphasized by his attempts to push the United States into bombing a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. When then President Bush refused to carry out the operation after other advisers did not approve, Israel went ahead and bombed the reactor instead.
Bush revealed this in his own memoir published last year by stating that former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asked the United States to bomb the suspected facility in Syria.
It appears the only thing that kept the United States from carrying out the wishes of Israel this time was disagreement among White House staffers.
The New York Times quoted Dick Cheney writing about a meeting on the potential bombing of the Syrian reactor, “I again made the case for U.S. military action against the reactor. But I was a lone voice. After I finished, the president asked, ‘Does anyone here agree with the vice president?’ Not a single hand went up around the room.”
I find it a bit disturbing that, if the advisers had been more compliant with Israel’s request, we could have entered into yet another conflict without any good reason and without the approval of the American people.
I think this information coming from Cheney, which was covered by the Israeli news outlet Haaretz earlier today, gives some dark insight into how the Israeli-American partnership works behind the scenes.
Thankfully, in this case the advisers prevented an attack that had questionable grounds and even more questionable American interests at stake.
However, if Israel is able to convince Washington that Iran presents a threat to the West, we might be drawn into yet another conflict at the behest of our so-called ally in the Middle East.
Madison Ruppert is a Los Angeles-based independent journalist and researcher as well as the founder, owner, administrator and editor of EndtheLie.com. He has no affiliations with any government agencies, political parties, non-governmental organizations, or economic schools. He is available for freelance writing assignments and appearances or interviews in any format. He can be reached by emailing
dick cheney is a war criminal that must be arrested he is a danger to the world (so is israel!)
Israel may be a threat to your world, but you are a threat to ours. If the Arabs put down their weapons we will have peace, if Israel puts down her weapons then it will be no more Israel
So Mr Reason are you one of the many people who never question why the Israeli’s are not liked in the mid east. Their sole justification for being there is that there is a religious book of fairy stories stating that it’s their’s.
On the other side is another lot of nutters with their very own invisible friend, but they happen to have modern legal proof called deeds of ownership with the land in question.
Israel has played the victim for too long. It’s common knowledge that the MOSSAD sends agents into Gaza and fires rockets back into israel to push forward their agenda of genocide of the Palestinian people. You are just regurgitating the propaganda of the neocon fox news fundamentalists, and it’s disgusting.
Actually Israel is a threat onto itself. Israel continues to spread fear as fear is very convincing indeed. Just look at Cheney as the devil himself, he is very proud of all the suffering that he has instigated all over the world in the name of the interests of the united states. It seems to me that Israel enjoys this satisfaction as well. If they were really serious then love, peace, wealth, health, compassion, forgiveness and not judging anyone at anytime would be ahead of everything else. For so few people the profits of the military industrial comp[lex prevails. Human suffering will continue until these types of crimminals are prosecuted. If Israel wants real peace then start in your own home and set the example, for the path that Israel treads will only come back and haunt them.
wouldn’t be surprised if they went through with it anyways
I think Israel has to worry about Turkey and Egypt right now. Turkey is a member of NATO, this might cause problems
When will Americans wake up? Dick Cheney is a neaocon and is in Israels pocket. Cheney is a war criminal in need of punishment for crimes against humanity. The problem here is Israels unwillingness to recognize its borders. It is a belligerent state not a country, because it is deeded to the Rothschild under the Balfour agreement. It is owned lock stock and barrel by this Zionist enterprise. These factions are freedom lovers enemies. The sooner people acknowledge this fact the sooner stability will return to the earth.
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