Cheney, Rumsfeld Lobby for Nuclear Power for Iran

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

In 1976!!!1!11

wizstars (455 posts)      Thu Feb-25-10 03:04 PM
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1976: Cheney, Rumsfeld Lobby for Nuclear Power Plant in Iran
 I just stumbled across this while looking for something else. DAMN!

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a76dickr...

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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and White House Chief of Staff Dick Cheney unsuccessfully lobby for the construction of a nuclear reprocessing plant in Iran. The two men devised the scheme because, they say, Iran needs a nuclear power program to meet its future energy needs. This is despite the fact that Iran has considerable oil and gas reserves. The deal would be lucrative for US corporations like Westinghouse and General Electric, which would make $6.4 billion from the project. During negotiations over Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger offers Pakistan access to this facility for reprocessing of its nuclear fuel. In return, Pakistan would not build its own reprocessing plant, which the US suspects will be used for a nuclear weapons program.

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Richard Steele  (1000+ posts)        Thu Feb-25-10 03:05 PM
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1. Nice find! K&R
 "With all due respect, Senator, there's a Muslim behind your chair. Ha! Made you look."

City Lights  (1000+ posts)        Thu Feb-25-10 03:07 PM
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2. They'd literally do *anything* for a buck.
 Great find!

Rec'd.

 
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7792262

Gosh! What could possibly have changed their minds?


think-think-think








Oh well, we'll just assume they're being hypocrites.

[NHSparky]

Funny, I didn't hear them calling for it in 1979, nor did I hear them calling for it during the 2004 presidential campaign, like KERRY did.