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By Sridhar Krishnaswami
Several thousand protesters raised anti-Bush slogans even as the President took oath, in Portland, U.S., on Thursday. — AP
WASHINGTON, JAN. 21. The U.S Vice-President Dick Cheney, has acknowledged that he had miscalculated on how quickly the Iraqis would be able to recover from the regime of Saddam Hussein and run their own country. "I think the hundreds of thousands of people who were slaughtered at the time including anybody who had the gumption to stand up and challenge him made the situation tougher than I would have thought. I would chalk that one up as a miscalculation where I thought things would have recovered more quickly," he told a talk show. His admission was aired just a few hours ahead of the inauguration of the President, George W Bush.
Top of threat list
Mr. Cheney said Iran was on top of the threat list in West Asia and it was sponsoring terrorism against Americans. He said it was involved in building a "fairly robust" nuclear programme. He warned that Israel "might well decide to act first" if the U.S. and its allies failed to resolve the standoff diplomatically. "Given the fact that Iran has a stated policy that their objective is the destruction of Israel, the Israelis might well decide to act first and let the rest of the world worry about cleaning up the diplomatic mess afterwards," he said. "We don't want a war in the Middle East (West Asia), if we can avoid it." In his inaugural address, Mr. Bush did not mention Iran but said the U.S. would fight for those seeking freedom from "rulers of outlaw regimes." There is fear in some quarters that Mr. Bush in his second term will use military force against Iran.
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