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[Pakistan Daily: The Pakistan News Agency] the war on Iraq with only a four- line paragraph, and instead to escalate his war of words on Iran, as if the expansion of the war on Afghanistan into Pakistan was not enough over-depletion of an already exhausted U.S. human, financial and military resources, and as if a threat of a third war in the Middle East would serve in any way the U.S. vital interests in the region or contribute to U.S. elusive victory in either one of both wars. Downplaying the most pressing items on the U.S. agenda and leaping forward to the nuclear issue and Iran was only a thinly- veiled attempt to divert attention away from the fact that Obama was stuck between the worse and the worst in both countries.

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