P.M. BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: --because those weapons, unlike mortars and machine guns that can kill thousands, and chemical weapons that kill tens of thousands, these weapons, nuclear weapons, could kill millions. That should be prevented at all cost.
DAVID GREGORY: You're well briefed on how the United States is approaching its negotiations with Iran to get it to abandon a nuclear weapons program. Are you concerned, based on anything that you've seen, that the U.S. is softening its negotiating stance to try to get Iran's help in Iraq?
P.M. BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: Well, I hope they don't come up with a bad deal. I'll tell you what a good deal is. A good deal is actually what was negotiated by the United States and President Obama in the case of the chemical weapons in Syria. They haven't solved the problem in Syria between Sunnis and Shiites, but you did remove the bulk of the weapons, and soon all of the weapons and the stockpiles. You removed them.
What is I think being discussed in the case of Iran by the international community is that you remove most of the sanctions and Iran gets to keep most of the capabilities, most of the stockpiles, most of the ability to manufacture the means to make nuclear weapons. That's a terrible mistake. I hope it doesn't come to pass because I think this would change history. It would be a monumental mistake. In the context of the world at large, and the Middle East as it is today, this would be a tragic, tragic outcome.
This is a man who is hellbent on feeding American blood and treasure into what would be such a bloodbath in Iran that the only serious way that it could be undertaken would be the restoring of the draft - military conscription would be a cure for long-term US joblessness too - which would follow the Israeli model of mandatory military service in the IDF. This would solve a lot of the Empire's problems with the eternal quest for global hegemony and being that America is a "Christian nation" as self-serving politicians so often remind us it could be easily sold in that the Israelis' after all are God's chosen people and there is no sacrifice too great for Americans than to commit the next generation or so into the jaws of the meat grinder. Check out Gareth Porter's book on the total bullshit of the Netanyahu case against Iran - "Manufactured Crisis", you an bet that it isn't on the required reading list for David Gregory and the rest of the mouthpieces for the enemies of the American people who are relentlessly pushing for their goddamned wars.
Then finally there was Cheney - AGAIN. Appearing on ABC's "This Week", I excerpt the following from the show transcript but it is just more of the same Cheney demagoguery and horseshit that we have had foisted off on us since he lied about the Saddam Hussein-Al Qaeda link and other distortions that lead to the Iraq disaster, one which if you believe the tales about ISIS is only beginning to take a turn for the worse:
With all -- all due respect, John, I was a strong supporter then of going into Iraq, I'm a strong supporter now. Everybody knows what my position is. There's nothing to be argued about there.
But if we spend our time debating what happened 11 or 12 years ago, we're going to miss the threat that is growing and that we do face. Rand Paul, with all due respect, is basically an isolationist. He doesn't believe we ought to be involved in that part of the world.
I think it's absolutely essential.
One of the things I worried about 12 years ago and that I worry about today is that there will be another 9/11 attack and that the next time, it'll be with weapons far deadlier than airline tickets and box cutters.
And when we have a situation developing in Pakistan, for example, where there are nuclear weapons, where supposedly that technology has been sold to the North Koreans, at the same time, the president announces the complete withdrawal from Afghanistan right next door, that we're -- we're missing the boat. We don't understand the nature of the threat and we're unwilling to deal with it.
As for 9/11 itself the question remains on exactly where was Dick and what was he up to? The American people have been deprived of an honest accounting of the events of that day aided by the fact that Cheney and Bush were able to evade giving testimony under oath to the Kean Commission and allowed to be interviewed together under restrictive conditions set by themselves.
Cui Bono? That is the question that an free press in a free country should be free to ask of scum like Cheney but the answer would be an indictment of the entire system and Christ knows we can't have that.
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