Juan Cole on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/juan_cole Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2006 2006-03-13T21:46:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo Fishing for a Pretext to Squeeze Iran http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060313_fishing_for_a_pretext_in_iran/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060313_fishing_for_a_pretext_in_iran/ iran, nuclear, oil, terrorism, iran_nuclear

Truthdig’s Middle Eastern affairs expert argues that the Iranian nuclear issue “has not reached the point of crisis, and therefore other motivations must be sought for the Bush administration’s breathless rhetoric.”
UPDATE: Cole says that Bush’s recent linking of Iran to Iraqi roadside bombs is “wholly implausible.”

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