Report: Cheney Snubbing Japan Official

So that's why Cheney never returns my emails. The bastard's snubbing me.

Vice President Dick Cheney will not meet with Japan's defense minister during his trip to the country next week, a decision Japanese media characterized as a snub over the official calling the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a ``mistake.''

Kyodo news agency said Cheney has asked Japan not to schedule any talks with Defense Minister Jumio Kyuma, who criticized the decision to go to war last month because he said it was based on the erroneous assumption that Saddam Hussein's government had weapons of mass destruction.

Kyuma later backtracked, saying he meant that the decision to attack Iraq should have been thought through more cautiously. [emphasis mine]

In the first place, the highlighted words are dead-on accurate. Kyuma had no reason whatsoever to back away from them.

And technically I've not called the invasion of Iraq a "mistake". Illegal, a war crime, unnecessary, criminal, stupid, imperialistic, those words I have used.


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