October 21, 2007 (LPAC)--Lansdowne, Virginia, the plush community in ``Ground Zero'' Loudoun County was the host to the 2007 Founders Conference of the AIPAC-spin-off, Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), which featured calls for war and assassinations against two Middle East countries--Iran and Syria, by Vice President Dick Cheney (Iran), and Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt (Syria).

Associated Press quotes Cheney saying, ``Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions.... We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapons.'' Cheney also charged that Iran's ``regime continues to practice delay and deceit in an obvious effort to buy time.'' Though Cheney did not use the words ``military action'' in this speech, his ``serious consequences'' was understood to be a war threat.

At the same event, Lebanese thug, Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Druze sect, and outgoing head of the Progressive Socialist Party, gave a speech to the plenary session, where he called for the U.S. to send "car bombs" to Damascus to assassinate Syrian leaders, reported Shmuel Rosner, chief U.S. correspondent for Ha'aretz, who is attending the conference, at WINEP's expense. Rosner also reports, quoting the Syria-based website, Sham Press, that Jumblatt is trying to set up a meeting in the U.S. with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, while both are in the U.S., where "Jumblatt will ask Barak to use his influence in Washington to work toward bringing down the Damascus regime." Rosner also writes this report claims that Cheney supports this meeting In an interview Sunday on CNN, Jumblatt said "as long as we have this tyrant, this butcher in Damascus alive, we won't be able to have a democracy, a stable democracy in Lebanon," but only called for "sanctions" not assassination.

At WINEP, Cheney claimed that Iran's target is against Iraq, which it sees as a rival Shi'ite nation.