Former military chiefs urge talks with Iran:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/02/03/iran.warning.reut/index.html
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Former military chiefs urge talks with Iran:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/02/03/iran.warning.reut/index.html
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So what? W won’t listen to his current military chiefs, except when they say exactly what he wants to hear.
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But could anyone be surprised that the Saudi, amongst others, would be concerned with their fate of the co-religionists?
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Looks like they’re supporting the Sunni “moderates” in the hope that the Wahhabists don’t take control of Sunni Iraq. You know what the consequences of *that * would be for the House of Saud.
Maybe someday Chalabi’s full role in inducing the gullible Bush into doing what Iran wanted will be known. But it doesn’t matter anymore in practical terms.
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On the Thursday before the USA attacked Iraq I was having lunch in London with two old American friends of mine who are elderly and well connected - one is still on the West Point circuit, yet he served in Korea.
They said ‘we need to establish a permanent base in the area from which we can reach out and get those terrorists’
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That might be how military officers think. But somehow, I don’t think getting the terrorists is really the primary basis for the neocons’ interest in the MENA.
Y’know, I would like to think Bush is playing bad cop. (“Better do what he says, Iran. He’s crazy! We can’t control him!”)
But then again, I thought that’s what he was doing before he invaded Iraq.
don’t get fooled twice
the public where fooled about the WOMD in Iraq
Feb 11th: Big Iran Science announcement
‘We’ve cracked the nuclear problem AND cured AIDS.’
Cool - we’ll call it Quits then. 