If you can’t win one war, start another one! - Today’s Headlines 4/7/08

[Caro]

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British fear Gen. Petraeus is beating the drum for Iran Strikes
British officials gave warning yesterday that America's commander in Iraq will declare that Iran is waging war against the US-backed Baghdad government. A strong statement from General David Petraeus about Iran's intervention in Iraq could set the stage for a US attack on Iranian military facilities, according to a Whitehall assessment. In closely watched testimony in Washington next week, Gen Petraeus will state that the Iranian threat has risen as Tehran has supplied and directed attacks by militia fighters against the Iraqi state and its US allies.
Itching for another war.—Caro

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Carolyn Kay
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1. Does war with Iran help or hurt McCain?

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4. McCain blunders on Iraq, again: Confuses Iraqi cleric with Prime Minister on ceasefire deal

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_blunders_on_Iraq_again_Confuses_0406.html


John "Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran" McCain can't get the main players in Iraq straight yet.

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2. Still looking for that reason to attack Iran

I hope someone can stop them before it's too late.

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3. John "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb" Iran McCain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg

Caveat Emptor: Buy McCain, Get Kagan and Woolsey

http://www.antiwar.com/taylor/?articleid=12642

McCain's principal Middle East point men are Brussels-based pundit Robert Kagan and ex-CIA director James Woolsey, both signers of the infamous 1998 Project for the New American Century letter advocating the use of force to remove Saddam from power. McCain had sought to add yet another neocon to his coterie, Robert Bruce Zoellick, but the Bush administration tapped Zoellick for the top job at the World Bank (then-president Paul Wolfowitz having gotten himself into difficulties there for taking the neocons' unspoken credo, "screw the Arabs," rather too literally).

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Robert Kagan, like almost all neocon Middle East experts who want to remake the Muslim world, knows little about the area, has never lived there, and understands no Arabic or Farsi. He is also a self-styled military expert who has never served in the armed forces. Perhaps because Kagan is married to Victoria Nuland, U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, he thinks some of her military expertise has rubbed off on him. After all, if Hillary can say that she learned crisis management from Bill, although I'd be willing to bet he never let her answer the phone when it rang at 3:00 a.m., what's to stop Kagan from making a similar claim?