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Christian Science Monitor
by Thomas Raleigh

10/26/06

Iraq and Iran are not separate issues. The United States cannot address the morass in Iraq without seeing it in a regional context and recognizing the painful truth that the strategic winner in the Iraq war is Iran. Yet by its unwillingness to hold earnest talks with Tehran -- discussions that might yield positive mutual understanding and help defuse regional tensions - the US stumbles toward the disaster that would result from attacking Iran and dooms the dim prospect it has to stabilize Iraq. There aren't enough troops in Iraq to defeat the insurgency, disarm the militias, and establish a secure environment that will promote national reconciliation and political reform. Simultaneously fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, US ground forces are overextended and exhausted. This is not defeatism -- this is reality...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1026/p09s02-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

While Canadians agonize over the quagmire in Afghanistan, few people are looking at what the Harper government will do if George Bush finds a rationale for military action against Iran.

http://www.rabble.ca/politics.shtml?x=53614


From Information Clearing House

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1025-20.htm



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

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20061024&articleId=3593


From Our bill of rights

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3421


Informant: NHNE

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5228/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



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

http://harpers.org/TheNextWar.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Attacking will not provide a fundamental solution to the (nuclear) problem...only delay it. In order to bring about a halt to the nuclear program, there has to be a regime change (that) can take place...in less time than it takes the regime of the ayatollahs to obtain nuclear weapons."

http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/iv/181020061


From Information Clearing House

With North Korea threatening more nuclear weapons tests, officials in Washington have placed the option of a military attack back on the table as they consider ways to prevent Iran from developing atomic weapons, experts say.

http://tinyurl.com/u2jb2


From Information Clearing House