The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Thursday, April 13, 2006

News for 04-12-06

04-12-06 - ElBaradei puts pressure on Iran


04-12-06 - US shelved evidence discounting Iraq's WMD: report The Bush administration publicly asserted that two trailers captured by U.S. troops in Iraq in May 2003 were mobile "biological laboratories" even after U.S. intelligence officials had evidence that it was not true, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.


04-12-06 - Iran Says It's Moving to Expand Enrichment


04-12-06 - Rice Calls for 'Strong Steps' Against Iran Rice also telephoned Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to ask him to reinforce demands that Iran comply with its nonproliferation requirements when he holds talks in Tehran on Friday.


04-12-06 - Iran Could Produce Nuclear Bomb in 16 Days, U.S. Says


04-12-06 - Security experts: Iran to be bombed in 2007 If Iran continues to develop nuclear weapons, a military operation against it is inevitable and will take place in 2007, senior U.S. and Israeli specialists say, Israel?s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Tuesday Our foreign policy is crafted in Tel Aviv.


04-12-06 - Lawmaker upset by silence on another Dubai deal A U.S. lawmaker on Tuesday fumed that the Bush administration refused to divulge anything about a security review it is conducting of a Dubai-owned company that is planning to take over several plants in the U.S. that make equipment for defense contractors.


04-12-06 - Blowing Cheney's Cover one of the great revelations from Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's court filing last week is more evidence that the White House ? not the CIA ? distorted intelligence on Iraq


04-12-06 - Israel wary of Iran's atomic progress "The United States has placed this issue at the top of its agenda. I do not recommend that we should be involved," Naturally. If they can get us to 'deal with Iran', why should they?


04-12-06 - Archives OK'd Removing Records, Kept Quiet The 2002 agreement, obtained by The Associated Press and released by archivists this week, shows the agency agreed to keep quiet about U.S. intelligence's role in the deal that shut off access to thousands of previously unclassified CIA and Pentagon documents.


04-12-06 - Iran Showdown Tests Power of Israel Lobby Far more visibly than any other domestic constituency, the Israel Lobby, defined by Profs. John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt, academic dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, as "the loose coalition of individuals and organizations who actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction," has pushed the government ? both Congress and the George W. Bush administration ? toward confrontation with Tehran...."This bill has been pushed almost entirely by AIPAC," noted Trita Parsi, a Middle East expert at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) here. "I don't see any other major groups behind this legislation that have had any impact on it."


04-12-06 - Experts: Iran's Boast May Mean Little Iran's boast that it has joined "the club of nuclear countries" by enriching uranium may rattle the Western world. But diplomats and experts familiar with the program say Iran still is far from producing any weapons-grade material needed for bombs and may be exaggerating its own progress.


04-12-06 - Critics: National intelligence office not doing much The Pentagon still dominates intelligence decision-making, despite Congress' intent to create more civilian control, said John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington-based defense think tank. That's because the nation is at war and field commanders demand the most immediate intelligence. Also, the Pentagon has more people, money and power, Pike said. The Pentagon would appear to be crawing with neocons - still - even though their case for the Iraq war was built largely on bullshit.


04-12-06 - Talking Sense On Iran An "Old Right" Republican with a long libertarian streak who has been repeatedly reelected from a Texas district where American flags wave in the breezes blowing off the Gulf of Mexico, and where the word "patriot" is taken seriously by the congressman and his constituents, Paul offers the answer to the despairing question of whether there is anyone in Congress who recognizes that the course proposed by the Bush administration and its neoconservative gurus is one of sheer madness.


04-12-06 - Work through the NPT to address concerns about Iranian nukes


04-12-06 - Kristol: Be Prepared to Use Force in Iran "I don?t think it would be that hard [to sell to the American people the idea of a possible pre-emptive strike against Iran]," Kristol told Fox. "I think the American people understand that it will be worth it (in the long run) to make sure that this Iranian regime does not get nuclear weapons." Bill Kristol is a neocon.


04-12-06 - MSNBC's 'Hardball' films live segment on campus "I heard he was going to talk about the Iran issue and I think he should really talk about the Israeli lobbyists who are behind this push for war," he said. "No one will tell you about it and American papers won't publish it, but it needs to be heard."
Morris handed Matthews a packet of papers describing the issue after the show, asking him to discuss the issue on air. Matthews thanked him and took the papers.



04-12-06 - Essay Stirs Debate About Influence of a Jewish Lobby They say that the United States was singled out by Al Qaeda in large part because of American support for Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and that a significant motivation for the invasion of Iraq was to improve Israel's security. A rather rational piece by the NY Times on the study of the Israeli lobby. It's about time.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home