DICK CHENEY AND GEORGE BUSH: STOP THREATENING IRAN

Matthew Barakat reports for AP that Dick Cheney is at it again - threatening Iran with dire consequences for causing trouble in the Middle East.

"The United States and other nations will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday.

""Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions," Cheney said in a speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Studies.

"He said Iran's efforts to pursue technology that would allow it to build a nuclear weapon are obvious and that "the regime continues to practice delay and deceit in an obvious effort to buy time."

"If Iran continues on its current course, Cheney said the U.S. and other nations are prepared to take action. The vice president made no specific reference to military action."

A suggestion to Dick Cheney and George Bush. Enough war-mongering against Iran. You guys are intent on starting another war in the Middle East. Haven't you done enough damage in Iraq? Iran has the right to develop nuclear power for peaceful purposes. You have no evidence Iran is working on developing a bomb. And even if it were, the U.S. has thousands of nuclear weapons and war heads. So does Russia, Israel, India, Pakistan, China, England and France. If you were serious in being against nuclear weapons, then take the initiative and renounce them for the U.S. In the meantime, stop this war posturing against Iran.

Cheney calls Iran "a terror-supporting state." Yet there is no evidence that Iran is supporting terrorists or terroristic acts. Nevertheless, Cheney and Bush never cease to accuse Iran of supporting terrorism. But it is the United States that has supported "terrorism," when it supports those regimes that throw people in prison for merely criticizing government leaders. Look at Egypt and Jordan. Furthermore, it is the U.S. that believes in torture and degradation of its prisoners, as in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.

So, Cheney and Bush - leave Iran alone, take care of your own abuses and abusive practices.