Is the U.S. Preparing to Bomb Iran?
U.S. officials: We're ready to take action on Iran
Administration officials told impatient lawmakers Tuesday that they are ready to take swift and substantial action against Iran if it disregards current diplomatic efforts to stop its alleged nuclear weapons program.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1119192.html
Is the U.S. Preparing to Bomb Iran?
By JONATHAN KARL
Based on a little-noticed funding request recently sent to Congress, the answer to that question appears to be yes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23658.htm
Public Skeptical and Hawkish on Iran
By Jim Lobe
Despite strong support for diplomatic engagement with Iran, most U.S. citizens believe such efforts will ultimately fail and that Washington should be prepared to use military force to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, according to a new poll released here Tuesday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23659.htm
From Information Clearing House
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Don’t assume the worst about Iran
Boston Globe
by H.D.S. Greenway
10/06/09
’Confront Tehran now,’ demands former Pentagon official Paul Wolfowitz. ‘There are only two choices left on Iran,’ warns former State Department counselor Eliot Cohen. But these voices from the black lagoon of the Bush-Cheney era aren’t the only ones crying out in alarm. We seem to be painting ourselves into a corner of worst-case scenarios when it comes to Iran. But the underlying assumptions need to be questioned more thoroughly. Why would a nuclear Iran necessarily set off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East? The conventional wisdom is that the Sunni Arab powers fear the power of Shiite Persia, and would immediately reach for their own bomb should Iran produce one. But Israel’s Arab neighbors did not rush to get their own bomb when Israel was building up a nuclear arsenal. It’s because the Arabs don’t fear Israel, I am told. That was not always so...
http://tinyurl.com/y8t2pa5
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Wolfowitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eliot+Cohen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=H.D.S.+Greenway
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=JONATHAN+KARL
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Lobe
Administration officials told impatient lawmakers Tuesday that they are ready to take swift and substantial action against Iran if it disregards current diplomatic efforts to stop its alleged nuclear weapons program.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1119192.html
Is the U.S. Preparing to Bomb Iran?
By JONATHAN KARL
Based on a little-noticed funding request recently sent to Congress, the answer to that question appears to be yes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23658.htm
Public Skeptical and Hawkish on Iran
By Jim Lobe
Despite strong support for diplomatic engagement with Iran, most U.S. citizens believe such efforts will ultimately fail and that Washington should be prepared to use military force to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, according to a new poll released here Tuesday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23659.htm
From Information Clearing House
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Don’t assume the worst about Iran
Boston Globe
by H.D.S. Greenway
10/06/09
’Confront Tehran now,’ demands former Pentagon official Paul Wolfowitz. ‘There are only two choices left on Iran,’ warns former State Department counselor Eliot Cohen. But these voices from the black lagoon of the Bush-Cheney era aren’t the only ones crying out in alarm. We seem to be painting ourselves into a corner of worst-case scenarios when it comes to Iran. But the underlying assumptions need to be questioned more thoroughly. Why would a nuclear Iran necessarily set off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East? The conventional wisdom is that the Sunni Arab powers fear the power of Shiite Persia, and would immediately reach for their own bomb should Iran produce one. But Israel’s Arab neighbors did not rush to get their own bomb when Israel was building up a nuclear arsenal. It’s because the Arabs don’t fear Israel, I am told. That was not always so...
http://tinyurl.com/y8t2pa5
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Wolfowitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eliot+Cohen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=H.D.S.+Greenway
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=JONATHAN+KARL
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Lobe
rudkla - 7. Okt, 07:54
