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06TOKYO865
2006-02-17 02:44:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Tokyo
Cable title:
MEDIA REACTION VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY
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UNCLAS TOKYO 000865
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR I/RF, PA/PR/FPC/W, IIP/G/EA, EAP/PD, R/MR,
EAP/J, EAP/P, PM;
USTR FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE;
TREASURY FOR OASIA/IMI;
SECDEF FOR OASD/PA;
CP BUTLER OKINAWA FOR AREA FIELD OFFICE;
PACOM HONOLULU FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ADVISOR
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OIIP KMDR KPAO JA
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY
- TOKYO
LEAD STORIES: Friday morning's Yomiuri front-paged GOJ
plans to begin withdrawing GSDF troops from the southern
Iraqi city of Samawah by the end of March and move all
the deployed forces to Kuwait by the end of May.
UNCLAS TOKYO 000865
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR I/RF, PA/PR/FPC/W, IIP/G/EA, EAP/PD, R/MR,
EAP/J, EAP/P, PM;
USTR FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE;
TREASURY FOR OASIA/IMI;
SECDEF FOR OASD/PA;
CP BUTLER OKINAWA FOR AREA FIELD OFFICE;
PACOM HONOLULU FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ADVISOR
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OIIP KMDR KPAO JA
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY
- TOKYO
LEAD STORIES: Friday morning's Yomiuri front-paged GOJ
plans to begin withdrawing GSDF troops from the southern
Iraqi city of Samawah by the end of March and move all
the deployed forces to Kuwait by the end of May.
1. "Accidental Shooting May Reduce Vice President
Cheney's Influence" The business daily Nihon Keizai's
Washington correspondent Kato commented (2/17): "Vice
President Cheney has been in a bind following the delay
in announcing that he accidentally shot his friend while
hunting quail at a Texas ranch. The media and the
Democrats have been leveling broadsides at the vice
president, rekindling suspicions that he might have been
involved in the leak of a classified document in a bid to
seek support for the war in Iraq.
2. "If this incident reduces the influence of Cheney, who
has wielded considerable authority in both domestic and
foreign policy, it could rock the foundations of the Bush
administration.... The authorities have concluded that
the shooting was an accident and do not plan to file
charges. Senate Minority Leader Reid has lambasted the
vice president, asking: 'Are you saying there is no need
for the American people to know what is happening?' The
media have also taken a critical tone. Behind this
'Cheney-bashing' is dissatisfaction with the vice
president's secretiveness."
SCHIEFFER
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE FOR I/RF, PA/PR/FPC/W, IIP/G/EA, EAP/PD, R/MR,
EAP/J, EAP/P, PM;
USTR FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE;
TREASURY FOR OASIA/IMI;
SECDEF FOR OASD/PA;
CP BUTLER OKINAWA FOR AREA FIELD OFFICE;
PACOM HONOLULU FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ADVISOR
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OIIP KMDR KPAO JA
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY
- TOKYO
LEAD STORIES: Friday morning's Yomiuri front-paged GOJ
plans to begin withdrawing GSDF troops from the southern
Iraqi city of Samawah by the end of March and move all
the deployed forces to Kuwait by the end of May.
1. "Accidental Shooting May Reduce Vice President
Cheney's Influence" The business daily Nihon Keizai's
Washington correspondent Kato commented (2/17): "Vice
President Cheney has been in a bind following the delay
in announcing that he accidentally shot his friend while
hunting quail at a Texas ranch. The media and the
Democrats have been leveling broadsides at the vice
president, rekindling suspicions that he might have been
involved in the leak of a classified document in a bid to
seek support for the war in Iraq.
2. "If this incident reduces the influence of Cheney, who
has wielded considerable authority in both domestic and
foreign policy, it could rock the foundations of the Bush
administration.... The authorities have concluded that
the shooting was an accident and do not plan to file
charges. Senate Minority Leader Reid has lambasted the
vice president, asking: 'Are you saying there is no need
for the American people to know what is happening?' The
media have also taken a critical tone. Behind this
'Cheney-bashing' is dissatisfaction with the vice
president's secretiveness."
SCHIEFFER