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Do the politicians foaming at the mouth over Iran know anything about Iran?
http://ga3.org/ct/Nd20pgF1jmYV/

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/22589


Informant: David Swanson

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Schwarz

Remember, it was Cheney who did everything in his power to hype the Iraq War and scuttle any possibility of a diplomatic solution prior to that conflict. Now he's doing the same with Iran.

http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx051407


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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney

While arguing that economic sanctions against Teheran still have a chance of bearing fruit, a top strategic expert predicted on Tuesday that the Bush administration could conduct a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities toward the end of its term in office.

http://snipurl.com/1kvh5


From Information Clearing House

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/16/1237/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bolton

Mother Jones
by Jonathan Schwarz

05/07

Gauging the Bush administration’s true intentions toward Iran is not easy. Each week brings a new story that hints at a struggle between the hardliners who’d like to take down one more point on the Axis of Evil and the realists who prefer one disastrous Middle East conflict at a time. Given the administration’s track record, uncoordinated and sporadic attempts by members of Congress to prevent an attack on Iran will restrain it no more than would cobwebs. Yet Congress does possess the power to stop a war — if it chooses to exercise it. If we wake up one morning to find cruise missiles flying, the responsibility will not be Bush’s alone. It will also belong to a Democratic-controlled Congress that could have acted but decided not to...

http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2007/05/plan_for_iran.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jonathan+Schwarz

By Alain Gresh

The US has swept aside repeated overtures from Tehran. Is it any wonder if the Islamic Republic now wants the bomb?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17701.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alain+Gresh

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/15/1212/

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CENTCOM chief Adm. Fallon said to have vowed 'no war against
Iran'

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6183/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

05/14/07

With its usual tin ear for public relations, the Bush administration provided another ‘Kodak moment’ of incompetent belligerence by yet again sending a high-level administration official to use an aircraft carrier as a prop for a hawkish rant. Vice President Dick Cheney did manage to refrain from displaying another ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner during his address to the crew of the John C. Stennis, stationed 150 miles off Iran’s coast. But as Cheney warned Iran against disrupting oil transportation routes or getting nuclear weapons, the speech’s imagery also reminded the American public of President Bush’s previous fiasco on another aircraft carrier. Yet Cheney’s speech may have more adverse implications for U.S. security than Bush’s earlier public relations disaster...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1967


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mission+accomplished
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+C.+Stennis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland

George Bush has shown no evidence he has given up the idea of attacking Iran. Such an attack would be a disaster for European relations with the Middle East warns Alain Gresh.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/opinion/?id=20686


From Information Clearing House