El Baradei Warns of "New Crazies" Who Want to Attack Iran

June 2, 2007 (LPAC)--Dr. Mohamed El Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, warns that "new crazies" want to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities. Without naming names, the nuclear watchdog's obvious reference to the war party cabal around Vice President Dick Cheney was made in an interview for a BBC Radio 4 documentary that was aired on June 1.

In his strongest warning yet, El Baradei said, "I wake every morning and see 100 Iraqis innocent civilians are dying ...I have no brief other than to make sure we don't go into another war or that we go crazy into killing each other. You do not want to give additional argument to new crazies who say 'let's go and bomb Iran.' " Asked who the "new crazies" were he replied: "Those who have extreme views and say the only solution is to impose your will by force," adding that you cannot "bomb knowledge." He attacked such thinking given the disastrous consequences of the war in Iraq.

El Baradei did not have to mention Cheney's name for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to get the message. In a press conference in Madrid, Rice tried to claim that everyone, including Cheney supported her policy of "diplomacy," despite Cheney's repeated statements to the opposite.

Earlier in the week more than one of Cheney's tops aides, including the infamous David Wurmser, author of the "Clean Break" scenario for regime change in Iraq, Iran, and Syria, were quoted saying that the diplomatic track with Iran was useless. The International Herald Tribune quoted an unnamed Bush administration official, who refused to give his name, and, like Rice, claimed, "the vice president is not necessarily responsible for every single thing that comes out of the mouth of ever single member of his staff." The same IHT article cited unnamed European officials who expressed serious worry that Cheney's "red line", which is the point when he deems a strike should be launched, may be coming soon.