The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Friday, May 05, 2006

News for 05-04-06

05-04-06 - Ex-CIA analyst condemns Bush 'manipulation campaign' on Iraq A former Middle East specialist of the US Central Intelligence Agency has condemned what he called an organised campaign of manipulation by the Bush administration to justify the Iraq war.


05-04-06 - Rumsfeld Heckled by Former CIA Analyst "Why did you lie to get us into a war that caused these kind of casualties and was not necessary?" asked Ray McGovern, the former analyst, during a question-and-answer session. Ray McGovern - one of the good guys :)


05-04-06 - French Leader: Don't Fight Iran "My conviction is that military action is not the solution," Villepin said at a monthly news conference. "We have already lived through this type of scenario and we know that not only does it settle nothing, but it can raise risks. We have seen this in the most clear way with Iraq."


05-04-06 - UN chief urges direct US-Iran talks United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is urging the US to enter direct talks with Iran over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.


05-04-06 - THE MCLAUGHLIN GROUP TAPED: FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2006 MR. BUCHANAN: The czar of American intelligence, Negroponte, says they're years away from this thing. They are hiding a lot of stuff and they've hid a lot of stuff. They are far, far away from this. But I'll tell you this, John. Your problem is our war party in this country, the Israelis, are pushing, pushing, pushing Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, who are all painted into a corner, and said they will n
ot be allowed to enrich at all.


05-04-06 - Oil Prices Fall for Second Straight Day Oil prices sank more than $2 a barrel for the second straight day on Thursday, falling below $70 as traders focused on U.S. government data that show gasoline supplies grew last week, reversing two months of declines.


05-04-06 - Cheney's Sharp Criticism Miffs Russia Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday accused Russia of cracking down on religious and political rights and using its energy reserves as "tools of intimidation or blackmail." It was a hard slap at Vladimir Putin as the United States seeks Russia's cooperation in punishing Iran. Russia refuses to go along with the plan to sanction Iran at the UN. That's what this is all about. Our media have tried repeatedly to vilify Russia in the last few weeks. And lest we forget, Cheney's office is teeming with neocons.


05-04-06 - Bush, Merkel pledge backing for Israel, denounce Iran and Hamas "America's commitment to Israel's security is strong, enduring and unshakeable," Bush said in a speech in Washington to the influential American Jewish Committee (AJC), which is marking its 100th anniversary.


05-04-06 - Bush, Malaysian PM agree on diplomacy to end Iranian crisis Malaysia has said it would not establish relations with Israel until the Palestinians secure statehood.


05-04-06 - The fallout from a falling dollar For two weeks, the dollar has been hammered as foreign buyers shun the US currency. Hey, I know. Let's attack Iran!


05-04-06 - Colleagues advise Biden to put away Iraq carving knife


05-04-06 - House preserves travel in lobbying amendment The Jewish community, led by the United Jewish Communities federation umbrella group, lobbied hard for the amendment, fearing it could affect education about Israel, Darfur and other areas.


05-04-06 - "We All Just Want to Leave" Many Palestinians are now served with deportation papers when they show up at the residency office to renew their visas, despite the fact that neighboring countries often won't accept them


05-04-06 - Russia sends aid to Palestinians The transfer, which had been expected, reflected Russia?s stated belief that the Palestinian government should not be isolated after Hamas leaders took office.


05-04-06 - Tension escalates again between Damascus and Beirut


05-04-06 - Turkey praises Iran's efforts against PKK, warns Iraqi Kurds


05-04-06 - The country that wouldn't grow up It seems to me of no small significance that the recent essay on "The Israel Lobby" by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt has aroused so much public interest and debate. Mearsheimer and Walt are prominent senior academics of impeccable conservative credentials. It is true that - by their own account - they could still not have published their damning indictment of the influence of the Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy in a major U.S.-based journal (it appeared in the London Review of Books), but the point is that 10 years ago they would not - and probably could not - have published it at all.


05-04-06 - Ex-Mossad chief: Take Iran seriously The former Mossad director noted that "now more than ever," Israel and the US share the same interests "in the face of Iran's threats on Israel and the free world." Bullshit.


05-04-06 - London Bridge A sad attempt to smear the London Review of Books. They're scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point in their insane attempts to discredit the Mearsheimer-Walt study of the Israeli lobby.

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