oh but we shouldn't fear Iran, after all, Israel will strike first

as Cheney outlined on the silly and stupid show "Imus in the Morning", apparantly he thinks that Israel may act first to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons...now this is ironic because first of all, there's no such thing as them acting alone when we pay their bills and arm them...and secondly, one would think even if they did "act alone" or do so "without asking", you'd have to imagine that they would insist on US forces to back them up...but the money quote from Dick:

"We don't want a war in the Middle East, if we can avoid it," he said. "In the case of the Iranian situation, I think everybody would be best suited or best treated and dealt with if we could deal with it diplomatically."

uhh, why couldn't we have done that with Iraq?...oh yeah that's right, Iraq's supposed to be the "easy" war that should have been won quickly and with flowers thrown upon us...Iran however would be a harder war because more of their citizens support them (not to mention get annoyed with the CIA playing around in their country attempting to start coups and whatnot) and invading them would send a clear message to ALL Middle Eastern countries, America is not your friend and you could have a bull's eye on your head...besides maybe Cheney remembers how many weapons we gave them for hostages...