Monday, April 10, 2006

'Iran & the Bomb' The Bush administration's reading of Iran's position is characterized as "misleading," Belgravia Dispatch cautions against approaching the situation "in a climate of ginned up hysteria about a new Hitler wielding a nuke within the year," and Paul Krugman asks: "Why might Mr. Bush want another war?" [Cursor.org] 11:18:46 AM    comment []

"The word I hear is messianic," said Seymour Hersh, appearing on CNN. And speaking from Tehran, Knight Ridder's Hannah Allam, who wrote about Iran's 'Holy Prophet War Game,' told Editor & Publisher that "the prevailing notion here is that the U.S. is way too mired in Iraq to do anything drastic about the folks next door for now." [Cursor.org] 11:18:13 AM    comment []

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