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22 Oct 07
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the Office of the Vice President has transformed itself into a free republic’s worst nightmare,
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Cheney and his cohorts have constructed a never-never land of oversight deniability, claiming immunity from both executive and legislative checks and balances.
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But Hadley is simply a facilitator,
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quickly whittled down to three: National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Vice President Dick Cheney, and God.
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Hadley (then the deputy national security adviser) instituted what has been referred to as the “Hadley Rules,” a corollary of which is that no move will be made which alters the ideological positioning of Iran as a mortal enemy of the United States. These “rules” shut down every effort undertaken by Iran to seek a moderation of relations between it and the United States, and prohibited American policymakers from responding favorably to Iranian offers to assist with the fight against al-Qaida; they also blocked the grand offer of May 2003 in which Iran outlined a dramatic diplomatic initiative, including a normalization of relations with Israel.
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the president’s reference to Armageddon, no matter how cavalierly uttered and subsequently brushed away, suggests an alarming context.
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“if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing [Iran] from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.”
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