Buzzflash: Busheviks Start Beating Iran War Drums Again

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Busheviks Now Singing That McCain Tune: "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran." Now We're Seeing the Pivot from an Al-Qaeda Threat to Iran. The Orwellian War that Never Ends Turns a New Page of Propaganda.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041101606.html?hpid=topnews

Iran Top Threat To Iraq, U.S. Says
Focus on Al-Qaeda Now Diminishing

By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 12, 2008; Page A01

Last week's violence in Basra and Baghdad has convinced the Bush administration that actions by Iran, and not al-Qaeda, are the primary threat inside Iraq, and has sparked a broad reassessment of policy in the region, according to senior U.S. officials.

Evidence of an increase in Iranian weapons, training and direction for the Shiite militias that battled U.S. and Iraqi security forces in those two cities has fixed new U.S. attention on what Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates yesterday called Tehran's "malign" influence, the officials said.

The intensified focus on Iran coincides with diminished emphasis on al-Qaeda in Iraq as the leading justification for an ongoing U.S. military presence in Iraq.

In congressional hearings this week, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus said the U.S. military has driven al-Qaeda from Baghdad, Anbar province and central Iraq, and he depicted the group as now largely concentrated in a reduced territory around the northern city of Mosul.

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1. It's hard to believe Bush

...won't do something to Iran. The only question seems to be: how bad will it be?

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2. No point in having a war now

when they can have an October surprise.

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3. One wonders at this point just exactly how much of a "surprise" it would be?