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Nuke Expert: Some U.S. Officials Set on Hitting Iran

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Posted on Apr 1, 2006
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Karen Spector

A growing number of high level American officials have already decided they want to attack Iran, according to one of the world’s leading nuclear proliferations experts.

Foreign Policy:

I used to think that the Bush administration wasn’t seriously considering a military strike on Iran, because it would only accelerate Iran’s nuclear program. But what we’re seeing and hearing on Iran today seems awfully familiar. That may be because some U.S. officials have already decided they want to hit Iran hard.

Does this story line sound familiar? The vice president of the United States gives a major speech focused on the threat from an oil-rich nation in the Middle East. The U.S. secretary of state tells Congress that the same nation is our most serious global challenge. The secretary of defense calls that nation the leading supporter of global terrorism. The president blames it for attacks on U.S. troops. The intelligence agencies say the nuclear threat from this nation is 10 years away, but the director of intelligence paints a more ominous picture. A new U.S. national security strategy trumpets preemptive attacks and highlights the country as a major threat. And neoconservatives beat the war drums, as the cable media banner their stories with words like “countdown” and “showdown.”

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By spiiderweb, April 1, 2006 at 6:15 pm #
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I have no doubts he’s right.

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By tallymebanana, April 1, 2006 at 12:10 pm #
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So do these “high level American officials” have sons and daughters of an age to be slaughtered in another failed war? Let’s try to extricate our troops from Iraq before more lives are wasted there, including those of innocent Iraqis. Eisenhower was right in warning against the military-industrial complex. There’s much money to be made from war. If there were ever a time for cooling the war talk it is now, and it should start with the higher-ups, including the president.

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By patriat, April 1, 2006 at 10:53 am #
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us is set for global level confrontation with on end to imperialism. May God helps us. Amen

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