'1976: Cheney, Rumsfeld Lobby for Nuclear Power Plant in Iran'

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  1. Margot2

    Margot2 Banned

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    There's a good deal more to this blast from the past about how they worked against Kissinger negotiating a peace agreement in Palestine.

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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. However, Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto rejects the deal, and the plant is not built in Iran anyway
     
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    Granny says, "Dat's right...
    :grandma:
    ... dey got enough gas & oil...

    ... dey don't need nuclear power...

    ... dey just gonna build a bomb...

    ... an' blow up Israel.
    :eekeyes:
     

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