The US inches ever closer to attacking Iran

Saturday, May 27, 2006

News for 05-26-06

05-26-06 - Testimony: Cheney angered over envoy's column on war Vice President Dick Cheney was personally angered by a former U.S. ambassador's newspaper column attacking a key rationale for the war in Iraq, and he repeatedly instructed his former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, to "get all the facts out" related to the critique, according to excerpts from Libby's 2004 grand jury testimony released late Wednesday by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald.


05-26-06 - Iran says ready to retaliate against any US strike


05-26-06 - Blair 'too busy' for Iran conflict PRIME Minister Tony Blair said he does not want to start a conflict with Iran as Britain's armed forces already have enough problems to handle.



05-26-06 - Russia will fulfill missile contract with Iran Russia will honor its contract to deliver TOR-M1 surface-to-air missiles to Iran, "except in case of some major event", the Russian defense minister revealed.


05-26-06 - US Marines likely to face massacre charges


05-26-06 - Iran open to enrichment cap Iran is willing to accept a cap on its uranium enrichment capability to ensure the fuel produced is not used to develop nuclear weapons, its ambassador to the United Nations says.


05-26-06 - Iran puts US Iraq talks on hold


05-26-06 - Iraq respects Iran's right to nuclear program


05-26-06 - Officials: Greece conveying Tehran messages


05-26-06 - Eavesdropping, Gagging, and the Constitution


05-26-06 - Steering Into a Third Intifada by Patrick J. Buchanan Rightly, Americans say we will not let Israel be destroyed. But why must we acquiesce in Israel's annexations of Arab land? Why must we remain silent to her deprivations of the Palestinians?


05-26-06 - Enough Is Enough: People have had it up to here with The Lobby After describing the Lobby's largely successful efforts to cow the Clinton administration, Massing illustrates a point made by Mearsheimer and Walt, that the Lobby serves as the de facto agent of a foreign power


05-26-06 - Lebanon blast kills two officials "Israel will be held responsible for this attack, which crosses red lines by targeting officials outside the Palestinian territories and that changes things." The bomb was planted in a vehicle which both men were about to travel in. When the ignition was turned on, it exploded, security sources said, reducing the car to a charred mass of twisted metal and showering the area with debris
Not the first time Israel conducted a car-boming in Lebanon, is it?


05-26-06 - Why Can't the US Apply Its New North Korea Policy to Iran? The hardliners in Vice President Dick Cheney's office and in the Pentagon achieved their first political-bureaucratic victory by getting President Bush to publicly repudiate Mr. Powell and by insisting that the North Korean regime could not be trusted and needed to be "changed." Mr. Powell and the realists in the administration were checkmated by the neocons, to the chagrin of South Korea and China The neoconservatives have been an unmitigated disaster for Bush's presidency (and for America). What was he thinking?


05-26-06 - US, allies hold WMD-seizing drills in Mediterranean Air and naval forces from the United States, Turkey, France and Portugal "seized" a ship carrying mock weapons of mass destruction in drills which Turkey has denied are aimed at neighboring Iran.


05-26-06 - US urges Russia to reconsider missile export to Iran The Tor-M1 unit is an all-weather air defense system intended for fulfilling air defense tasks at the battalion unit level. It ensures effective protection from cruise missiles, guided bombs, warplanes, helicopters, and pilotless and remotely controlled attack aircraft.


05-26-06 - Justice Department Probe Foiled because investigators were denied security clearances to do their work


05-26-06 - Pressure Grows on Bush to Engage Iran Directly The administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is under increasing pressure ? both here and abroad ? to engage Iran in direct talks despite the continued opposition of pro-Israel neoconservatives and Vice President Dick Cheney.


05-26-06 - Musharraf for peaceful solution to Iran N-issue


05-26-06 - Public Hearings Sought in Phone Record Scandal


05-26-06 - Iran to lobby developing states on nuclear issue


05-26-06 - Lebanese PM blames Israel for car bombing


05-26-06 - Olmert, Cheered in D.C., Bows to U.S. Call for Talks At the White House press conference, Bush made several statements that were music to the ears of Olmert and his entourage. The president delivered the most explicit commitment he ever has made to defend Israel against an Iranian attack. "In the event of any attack on Israel," Bush said, "the United States will come to Israel's aid."


05-26-06 - US approves aid to Israel, Egypt During committee deliberations it was also feared that Egypt may turn to Russia and China to purchase military equipment. The policies of the AIPACers/neocons are driving Middle Eastern regimes into the arms of Russia and China.


05-26-06 - Judge rejects reporter CIA leak case subpoena A judge rejected a request by former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Friday to force ex-New York Times reporter Judith Miller to turn over all her notes, telephone records and appointment calendar


05-26-06 - HENRY HYDE'S PLEA by Robert Novak Hyde, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, sent along with his letter a five-page, single-spaced report prepared by his staff based on visits to Israel and Palestine over the past two years. It contends "the Christian community is being crushed in the mill of the bitter Israeli-Palestinian conflict." The Israeli security wall and expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the report continues, "are irreversibly damaging the dwindling Christian community."


05-26-06 - Israel's American Constituency Even as Olmert met with President George W. Bush at the White House Tuesday, the House voted by an overwhelming 361-37 margin to impose strict conditions on aid to Palestinians, as demanded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Washington's most powerful pro-Israel lobby.


05-26-06 - Blair urges United Nations reform Hamas should drop its refusal to accept Israel so negotiations could begin on an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, with a two-state solution to the conflict

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