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05-27-2009, 05:12 AM
Instability is a war's best friend...
Along with today's Asia-focus like North Korea nuking and Suu Kyi in Burma, there's a lot of energy on this Iran road. Benyamin Netanyahu is determined to 'take something out' (in Iran), is opposed to a 2-state solution (Israel-Palestine) and IMO is a total impediment to a peace process. Then, he calls such objectives 'childish' or whatever. So far, the 'compromise' is to expand Israeli settlements (http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/05/26/israel-scrambles-to-avoid-showdown-with-obama/), which is not exactly progress or ... a display of maturity.
Anyway, the 2 Iran stories depending who's doing the talking and who's on board...
No. 1
The Iranian government has repeatedly ruled out pursuing atomic weapons and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly certified that none of Iran’s low-enriched uranium is being diverted to any non-civilian use. Still, this weekend Admiral Michael Mullen alleged that Iran was pursuing such weapons, though he did concede that he hadn’t seen any actual reports detailing such a program.
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/05/25/nukes-politically-retarded-ahmadinejad-opines/
No. 2
Re:Israel Received 'Key Pieces' of Military Aid From US
Addressing his Likud Party faction just one week after his visit to the United States, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say that it was the responsibility of Israel’s leadership to “eliminate” the threat posed by the Iranian government’s civilian nuclear program. “Who will eliminate it? It is us or no one.”
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/05/25/netanyahu-if-israel-doesnt-eliminate-iran-threat-no-one-will/
It looks like another Iraq (preemptive) or the completion of the original road map, the Defense Planning Guidance (DPG)? -
Background
The DPG was also clear about what should be the U.S.'s "overall objectives" in the Middle East. Of these, the main objective, it said, was to "remain the predominant outside power in the region and preserve U.S. and Western access to the region's oil."
Amid public outcry after its release, the H.W. Bush Administration was forced to publicly retract the doctrine. However, the DPG did not disappear. Despite its draconian and Machiavellian character, Cheney was impressed by it, and in 1997 he, Libby, Wolfowitz, and Khalizad joined William Kristol, Donald Rumsfeld, Elliott Abrams, and several other adherents and soon-to-be George W. Bush appointees in founding the so-called Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a politically influential research foundation dedicated to realizing the major objectives of the DPG.
http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/1472
Along with today's Asia-focus like North Korea nuking and Suu Kyi in Burma, there's a lot of energy on this Iran road. Benyamin Netanyahu is determined to 'take something out' (in Iran), is opposed to a 2-state solution (Israel-Palestine) and IMO is a total impediment to a peace process. Then, he calls such objectives 'childish' or whatever. So far, the 'compromise' is to expand Israeli settlements (http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/05/26/israel-scrambles-to-avoid-showdown-with-obama/), which is not exactly progress or ... a display of maturity.
Anyway, the 2 Iran stories depending who's doing the talking and who's on board...
No. 1
The Iranian government has repeatedly ruled out pursuing atomic weapons and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly certified that none of Iran’s low-enriched uranium is being diverted to any non-civilian use. Still, this weekend Admiral Michael Mullen alleged that Iran was pursuing such weapons, though he did concede that he hadn’t seen any actual reports detailing such a program.
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/05/25/nukes-politically-retarded-ahmadinejad-opines/
No. 2
Re:Israel Received 'Key Pieces' of Military Aid From US
Addressing his Likud Party faction just one week after his visit to the United States, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say that it was the responsibility of Israel’s leadership to “eliminate” the threat posed by the Iranian government’s civilian nuclear program. “Who will eliminate it? It is us or no one.”
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/05/25/netanyahu-if-israel-doesnt-eliminate-iran-threat-no-one-will/
It looks like another Iraq (preemptive) or the completion of the original road map, the Defense Planning Guidance (DPG)? -
Background
The DPG was also clear about what should be the U.S.'s "overall objectives" in the Middle East. Of these, the main objective, it said, was to "remain the predominant outside power in the region and preserve U.S. and Western access to the region's oil."
Amid public outcry after its release, the H.W. Bush Administration was forced to publicly retract the doctrine. However, the DPG did not disappear. Despite its draconian and Machiavellian character, Cheney was impressed by it, and in 1997 he, Libby, Wolfowitz, and Khalizad joined William Kristol, Donald Rumsfeld, Elliott Abrams, and several other adherents and soon-to-be George W. Bush appointees in founding the so-called Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a politically influential research foundation dedicated to realizing the major objectives of the DPG.
http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/1472