Military action still an option with Iran, Cheney says in Dallas

Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday that peaceful measures to prevent Iran from menacing the Middle East and developing a nuclear weapons program have not yet worked, leaving military action as a possible solution.

"Nobody wants to resolve this in any means other than peacefully, if it's at all possible," Mr. Cheney told the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth.
"But in the final analysis, the worst outcome would be a situation in which Iran is sort of let loose, if you will, in that part of the world with an inventory of nuclear weapons prepared to be used against other nations in the region or to dominate that part of the globe and to threaten not only the United States, but many of our friends and allies out there as well."

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The problem with this statement is that he feels the need to mention "possible" military action when the situation is no where near this level yet. It also confuses me as to Why it would even reach this level. This is another example of the U.S Government softening the upcoming blow of another military "blunder war". Another question that needs to be asked is why is Iran not allowed to have nuclear weapons? The U.S has them and here in he U.K we have them also. Maybe its because the U.S and U.K governments have meddled so much in other middle eastern governments inc over throwing perfectly good governments, inserting figure heads that are "Western friendly" and sucking the resources out of them so that they continue to operate in a 3rd world economy. Maybe they are scared that if they get any semblance of nuclear weapons that they will immediately target those responsible for keeping them in the dark ages and press the big red button. What other possible reason is their for stopping middle eastern countries from improving their weapons arsenal when it is perfectly acceptable for the U.S and the U.K to continue to develop them. Comments are welcome on this issue as with all my blog entries.