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CounterPunch
by Christopher Brauchli

03/01/07

It has an appealing symmetry. George Bush is deploying a missile defense system that may or may not work to defend against nuclear weapons that might be fired from Iranian secret weapons sites that may or may not exist. This strategy is of a piece with the rest of George Bush’s foreign policy strategies that have produced such successes as, for example, Iraq...

http://www.counterpunch.org/brauchli03012007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Asia Times
by Gareth Porter

03/01/07

Leaked reports of a recent Pentagon meeting only add to the mounting evidence that the US is preparing to attack Iran. In this context the recent ’surge’ of US troops is not meant to pacify Baghdad but to contain Iraqi Shi’ite fury in response to air strikes on Iran. George W Bush doesn’t want to have to go to Syria and Iran and ‘ask for anything’...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IC02Ak07.html



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Cato Institute
by William A. Niskanen

03/02/07

[T]he October 2002 war resolution provides authority for the use of U.S. military forces only to ‘defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq,’ a narrowly defined mission that was accomplished in the first few weeks of the U.S. invasion in the spring of 2003. No other nation is mentioned in this resolution, and it would take an exceptionally tortured interpretation to sanction war with any nation other than Iraq. So the President has no authority for a broader war...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8020


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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From Information Clearing House



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The Russian head of a military pact including several ex-Soviet nations warned the United States on Thursday not to use force against Iran, saying a military strike would not succeed in stopping Iran's nuclear program but would destabilize the region.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/01/asia/AS-GEN-Tajikistan-Iran.php


From Information Clearing House

John Bolton, the former American envoy to the United Nations, said the U.S. should pursue "regime change'' in Iran because European governments refuse to back sanctions tough enough to halt the suspected Iranian nuclear-bomb program.

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Pentagon Whistle-Blower on the Coming War With Iran

Karen Kwiatkowski, a veteran of the Pentagon with first-hand experience of the administration's cherry-picking of intelligence, talks to James Harris from truthdig and reveals why Bush thinks he can win a war with Iran, why few politicians are serious about withdrawal and why, "When they call Iraq a success, they mean it."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030107K.shtml
http://www.truthdig.com/interview/item/20070227_pentagon_whistleblower_on_the_coming_war_with_iran/

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The coming war with Iran

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

03/26/07

The timing of the recent incident in which 15 British sailors were arrested by Iran at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway for purportedly entering Iranian waters couldn’t have been more provocative if it had been planned that way. And perhaps it was. The question is, however, who did the planning? It happened on the eve of a vote in the UN Security Council to impose stricter sanctions on Iran and in the wake of escalating rhetoric from U.S. government officials blaming Iran for anti-occupation activity in Iraq. On top of that, recent events include the kidnapping of Iranian consular officials in Irbil, Kurdistan, by U.S. forces, reports of covert U.S. support for terrorist attacks inside Iran, the ‘disappearance’ of a major Iranian military figure in the elite Revolutionary Guards unit, and suspicions that the Mossad may have had a hand in killing a renowned Iranian nuclear scientist. Add it all up, and there seems little doubt as to who carried out what seems like a brazen provocation...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=10724


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