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 [Midpress (Middle East News)] Remember when”¦ Iraq attacked Iran, sparking the Iran-Iraq War: The Reagan administration further increased its involvement by declaring on April 29th that it would protect non-Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf as well, which in effect amounted to a further tilt in favor of Iraq since the new US policy allowed Saddam Hussein to continue Iraq’s attacks on tankers without fear of concomitant attacks on vessels supporting Iraq’s allies. This onlyreinforced Iran’s belief that the United States was now a belligerent in the Iran - Iraq War.

[Recent articles | ukwatch.net] The Regional Role in the Stabilisation of Iraq: Despite the fact the America has inadvertently worked against Saudi interests and has failed to comprehend the nature of the threat a Shi’a dominated Iraq poses to the Kingdom, Washington is now asking the Kingdom to open an embassy in Baghdad, do more to seal its long desert border with Iraq, cancel Iraq’s debts and make a greater contribution to reconstruction. One Saudi participant rejected the opening of an embassy in Baghdad as “a fantasy of American policymakers” that would serve little purpose, noting that American requests that the Kingdom send an Ambassador to Baghdad are undermined by the severe limits on diplomatic activity imposed by the security situation.

[Future Dave] Alphabetical Reasons to Impeach George Bush: Within months, China had shot down a U.S. spy plane, North Korea and Iran had resumed their nuclear weapons programs, Venezuela had organized Latin American countries to support Chinese imports instead of U.S. goods, and Iraq had raised the price of oil.

[Iran Focus] Iran and the United States: The Emerging Security Paradigm in the ...: With 545,000 people in military service, Iran has the largest army in the Middle East, larger than all other Persian Gulf countries (Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) combined.(6) However, Iran has not been allowed to buy Western weapon systems since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In response to these sanctions, Iran has pursued four overlapping strategies:

 [Middle East Strategy at Harvard] The myth of linkage: This manifested itself in our time most destructively in the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, and it continues to inflame post-Saddam Iraq and other parts of the Arab/Persian Gulf (even the name of which is the subject of dispute). This is probably one of the oldest rivalries in the history of the world.

[The Hames Report] War Mongering: Iranian Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar has warned Israel of a ”˜very painful’ retort should a military strike be launched over Iran’s disputed nuclear program. Meanwhile the Russians are scrambling to finish an upgrade of Iran’s air defences - which is making the Israelis even more nervous (and trigger happy) of course.

 [Truth Wire] ISLAMOPHOBIA AND THE ”˜”˜WAR ON TERROR’’: THE CONTINUING PRETEXT FOR ...: 7 Zbigniew Brzezinski served as National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. With David Rockefeller, he founded and then served as Director of the Trilateral Commission, an influential American, European and Japanese forum for strategic planning from 1973 to 1976.

 [Kajian Internasional Strategis] The New Middle East: An element of diplomacy was reintroduced in early 2007, at a time when the administration faced spiraling violence in Iraq, the failure of efforts to convince Iran to abandon its efforts to develop nuclear capability, and the refusal of major allies, such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to cooperate on any U.S. initiative unless the Israeli-Palestinian peace process were revived. After rejecting outright the late 2006 recommendation of the independent Iraqi Study Group that the United States should start talking with Iraq’s neighbors, including Iran and Syria, the administration opened a dialogue of sorts with both in 2007.

[BAYTO MESKEREM-I] The limit of Obama's imagination (Obama and Israel): Barack Obama rises in American political consciousness after eight years of Ronald Reagan, consistently pushing the country to the right of even his own conservative politics, after four years of one cynical and opportunist President Bush, after eight more years of a President Clinton whose foreign policies was even worse than his two Republican predecessors, and then after eight long and terrorising years of yet another President Bush who has now pushed the world to the edge of moral and environmental meltdown -- with the horror of the neocons and their Oriental regiment (Fouad Ajami, Hirsi Ali, et. al.), capping the terror that this country has brought against the word, in Afghanistan and Iraq in particular.

[Marc's Blog] The War on Terrorism: The Iraqi people have endured tremendous hardships under the Iran-Iraq war, the rule of saddam, both persian gulf wars, and american occupation; they simply want to expel the US from their country so they can get on with their lives.

 [SWJ Blog] Bowling for Boghammars”¦ 2008 Edition: Operating from the small Iranian islands of Farsi, Sirri, Abu Musah and Larak, the Guard Corps played an aggressors role in many incidents of sabotage and raids during the Iran-Iraq war including attacks on Kuwaiti owned but US flagged tankers, the mining of the major sea lanes near Bahrain and Qatar and direct confrontations with US Navy warships.

[eatbees blog] Iran Fever (part 3): I mean how can the United States expect that by confronting Iran in Iraq, it is going to get the support of the [Shiia governing coalition] which is to some extent dependent on Iranian support….NIO: Do you think that the Iraqi government in Baghdad is free to establish a relationship with Iran that is completely independent from U.S. policy towards Iran?ALAWI: The relationship that Iraq needs to have with Iran has to be an independent, neighborly relationship based on the mutual interests of both countries, not necessarily subject to the strategic imperatives of the U.S. government. But we have now, I think, been confronted with the Iraqi government having the support of the United States being withdrawn if it does not, as it were, toe the line when it comes to Iran….

 [Kautzman's AP GO PO Blog] CE Week #9: “Iran Becomes an Issue In Democratic Contest”: His opposition, said an adviser, is based on other sections of the measure that use Iran to justify the continued U.S. military presence in Iraq and that say it is in the national interest for the U.S. military to counter Iran in Iraq. The adviser said the amendment is worrisome because there is no stipulation noting that nothing in it authorizes military action.

[My World; My Life:] Iraq: A Historical Timeline -: Paul Bremer arrives and assumes complete authority on behalf of the U.S. In 13 months, his unilateral orders include privatizing all industry under foreign corporations, lowering the tax rate on all corporations, and eliminating any tariffs, import tax, or customs. U.S. military and private contractors are granted full immunity from any Iraqi laws.

[asia] British Lies, Iranian Pride and US Belligerence: Writing in his widely read blog , Murray points to a “colossal problem? with respect to the map the British government has used to show coordinates of the incident and the Iran/Iraq maritime border?the story uncritically accepted by .

 [The Digest] 3/19 Blaming the Victims: Covering Up Terrorism in Iraq ...: the US promoted Iran/Iraq war;. the first war against Iraq;. the 12 years of sanctions against Iraq;. the second war against Afghanistan;. the American-engineered attempted coup in Venezuela;. the second war against Iraq; ...

[carapace] Monday July 16, 2007 - The liberties of a people never were, nor ...: of the U.S. government staging a terrorist attack or a Gulf of Tonkin style provocation, as the war in Iraq continues to deteriorate. The Texas congressman offered no specifics nor mentioned President [sic] Bush by name, but he clearly insinuated that the administration would not be above staging an incident to revive flagging support.

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