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[Foreign Policy Journal] Bomb, Bomb Iran: Lessons From Iraq Unlearned | Foreign Policy Journal: In other words, while Israel regularly threatens that it won’t wait much longer for the U.S. to come to some agreement with Iran before it launches an attack against Iran’s nuclear sites that Iran’s possession of the bomb would surely deter, Iran is willing pass up an offer that would constitute “a headlong sprint” towards such a deterrent because doing so could actually jeopardize the possibility of it obtaining the bomb, since if Iran accepted the deal ostensibly designed to prevent it from being able to enrich uranium to weapons-grade, Israel would be even more likely to bomb their nuclear sites even sooner than if it Iran just rejects the proposal.

[Watching America] Watching America : » An American-Iranian Confrontation in Iraq: Iran’s firing of the Sajil missile, the rocket with a reach of more than 2,000 km that cannot be taken down easily with anti-missiles, two days ago is thus a message to American president Barack Obama, as much as it is a message to Israel, that Iran will not stand with its hands tied in the event of being subject to a military attack. The message says, "We have the military capacity to reach Israeli targets, among them nuclear installations in Dimona, which lie in the heart of the Negev desert."

[nosle] News Analysis: Iraq War Inquiry Depicts Britain as Sidekick to U.S.: The first three weeks of hearings have done little to blunt a common view in Britain that the war was a historic blunder. Great Britain,Iraq War (2003- ),United States Defense and Military Forces,Afghanistan War (2001- ),United States International Relations,Labour Party .

[Iraq News and information] Former Interrogator Rebukes Cheney for Torture Speech : Iraq News ...: Evolution is established science, regardless of a scientist’s political affiliation. Many scientists who believe in evolution, as it so happens, happen to be people who vote Republican because Republicans are the ones who behave most in the matter that vindicates Darwin’s theory of evolution.

[War On Terror News] War On Terror News: Iraq Riverines Maintain Basrah's Waterways: Following the Invasion of Afghanistan, he went as quickly as he could get there and talked to the Men from the 5th Special Forces Group who were still there to hear the stories straight from the horses' mouths on how 200 Special Operations troops were able to rid the world of a tyranny and deal a deadly blow to the enemy Al-Qaeda Terrorists in the weeks following 9/11. (*****)

[mySA.com Opinion] Pivotal time for Iraq: The Kurds control three of Iraq's provinces but lay claim to three important cities just across the border that have mixed populations. They have also been flouting the central government's authority regarding oil contracts, negotiating 30 separate deals of their own and blocking the flow of oil out of the region.

[KurdNet News ekurd.net] Iraq, the Kurds, and Israel: Entwined Futures. By Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.: Much is made of Iraq's known oil reserves, pegged by the Department of Energy at 112 billion barrels, or five times the United States' - not to mention its 110 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Even at 3 million barrels per day - said to be the realistically immediate target of the occupying forces and almost 50 percent above the current level - this subterranean stash stands to last for more than a century.

[AlterNet.org] War Vet: I Served 40 Months in Iraq, After Which I Didn't Want to ...: I was too old at 46 to get back into the Marine Corps, but with a waiver I was able to join the Army National Guard. ...

[The Common Ills] Like the illegal war, the violence continues « The Common Ills: Cindy Sheehan---In my opinion, accountability for war crimes committed on the people of Iraq/Afghanistan and, now Pakistan, is imperative.The US has been committing war crimes for at least the last 100 years (off the continent) and none of our leaders have ever been held accountable and that's one of the reasons that the empire is able to keep rolling. I also believe that the way to the rest of the world's heart is for American leaders to be held accountable.

[The Race for Iran] Pushing Back on the War Drums « The Race for Iran: Hence, few believe that the United States has the ability to defeat Iran in any conventional war, especially as the country is far stronger and can provide much greater resistance than eneything we’ve seen in Iraq and Afghanistan. Indeed, the US government must be praying that the Iranians will not make life difficult for them in Afghanistan as things stand, otherwise, failure there is almost certain.

[Dandelion Salad] Bomb, Bomb Iran: Lessons From Iraq Unlearned by Jeremy R. Hammond ...: In other words, while Israel regularly threatens that it won’t wait much longer for the U.S. to come to some agreement with Iran before it launches an attack against Iran’s nuclear sites that Iran’s possession of the bomb would surely deter, Iran is willing pass up an offer that would constitute “a headlong sprint” towards such a deterrent because doing so could actually jeopardize the possibility of it obtaining the bomb, since if Iran accepted the deal ostensibly designed to prevent it from being able to enrich uranium to weapons-grade, Israel would be even more likely to bomb their nuclear sites even sooner than if it Iran just rejects the proposal.

[At War] Why I Left Iraq: Scenes From a Year - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: The New York Times’s award-winning team of correspondents, photographers, videographers and local interpreters provide insight ”” and try to answer your questions ”” about the combatants shaping events along political, military and religious faultlines, and the civilians caught in the middle.

[Whiteswangiftbaskets.com] Whiteswangiftbaskets.com » Blog Archive » Shiite pilgrims, census ...: A roadside bomb Friday killed three Shiite pilgrims walking in the Iraqi capital in advance of the holy day of Ashura, authorities said. General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson says better results will allow the automaker to start repaying government .

[Education News|Education Blog|Education Video|BOOKCOST.NET] Obama unveils Afghanistan stratagem - Live blog «: Years of discuss over Iraq as well as terrorism have left a togetherness upon inhabitant certainty issues in tatters, as well as combined a rarely polarized as well as narrow-minded backdrop for this effort. And carrying only gifted a misfortune mercantile predicament given a Great Depression, a American people have been understandably focused upon rebuilding a manage to buy as well as putting people to work here during home.

[PoliticalArticles.NET - Blog] Iraq War Crimes Indictment | PoliticalArticles.NET:   It was the object of the conspiracy to use war to replace the leader of Iraq, to do a regime change, because said leader was acting in a bellicose manner after previous American administrations had professed friendship, guaranteed the sovereignty of, equipped with military hardware, and encouraged said Iraq leader in military adventurism prompting him to believe he could invade Kuwait in 1990 without repercussion. Thus, the United States itself was a party to laying the groundwork for a miscalculation that led to war.

[Change.org's War and Peace Blog] Panama + Over-Confidence = Iraq War, Suggests Pickering | War and ...: Thomas Pickering, US Ambassador to the United Nations under President "41" George HW Bush, thinks that when the US toppled Manual No... read more of this post, Panama + Over-Confidence = Iraq War, Suggests Pickering, at Change.org.

[LobeLog.com] LobeLog.com » Blog Archive » NYTimes Floats the Case for Attacking ...: Even if an attack on Iraq proves a short-term success, it likely would compel other states to band together diplomatically against us. Indeed, it even could encourage some to acquire weapons of mass destruction as their best guarantee against a U.S. attack.

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