Iran Offered Concessions In 2003; Cheney Said No

In 2003, Iran offered to officially renounce its ties to terrorist groups and make its nuclear program more transparent. The State Department was ready to deal, but Cheney nixed the deal. The reason? Cheney believed that we shouldn't 'talk to evil'.

Yet more evidence of what this administration's hatred of diplomacy and compromise has brought us. And now they are threatening Iran with war, having helped create the conditions that they are using to justify this saber-rattling. Has there ever been an administration with this backwards a foreign policy?

BBC News: Washington 'snubbed Iran offer'--
Iran offered the US a package of concessions in 2003, but it was rejected, a senior former US official has told the BBC's Newsnight programme

[UPDATE: US military buildup in the Persian Gulf grows. KCRW's 'To The Point' has analysis.

UPDATE #2: Iranian president Ahmadinejad is losing internal support on the nuclear issue.]