U.S. Warns Iran To Back Down:Washington Rules Out Direct Talks With Tehran; Sends Second Carrier Group To Gulf....
Background and Related Info:
- Scant evidence found of Iran-Iraq arms link:
"In his speech this month outlining the new US strategy in Iraq, President Bush promised to 'seek out and destroy' Iranian networks that he said were providing 'advanced weaponry and training to our enemies.' He is expected to strike a similar note in tonight's State of the Union speech. For all the aggressive rhetoric, however, the Bush administration has provided scant evidence to support these claims. Nor have reporters traveling with US troops seen extensive signs of Iranian involvement...."
- Arianna Huffington: Davos Notes: Gergen on Bush's Handling of Iran: "This is Nuts!":
"This is nuts! It's just crazy to me.' That was David Gergen's assessment of the Bush administration's failure to use diplomacy to confront the looming Iran nuclear crisis (he is clearly far more unplugged in Davos than he is on CNN)."
- The Logic Of US Deployments Points To Iran
"The logic of the new force deployments President George W. Bush has approved for the Middle East appeared geared towards launching an air strike against Iran or deterring Iranian retaliation rather than preparing for a major change in U.S. strategy to win the war in Iraq."
- CBSNews Interactive: Nuclear Armed World
- Seymour Hersh: The Coming Wars: What the Pentagon Can Now Do in Secret
- Seymour M. Hersh (The New Yorker)| The Iran Plans
- Salon: Seymour Hersh's alternative history of Bush's war:
The crack investigative reporter tells Salon about a disastrous battle the U.S. brass hushed up, the frightening True Believers in the White House, and how Iran, not Israel, may have manipulated us into war.
- NPR (AUDIO): 'New Yorker's Hersh on Iran
- YouTube - CNN & New Yorker - Bush Planned Lebanon War Months Before
(Hat tip to R.L.M.)
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