Scary Movie 2: PAUL KRUGMAN - Attacking Iran ; US Sending 3rd Carrier Strike Group to Gulf by PAUL KRUGMAN - The New York Times Monday Feb 12th, 2007 KRUGMAN: Attacking Iran wouldnât be the first catastrophic mistake this administration has made, and there are indications that, at the very least, a powerful faction in the administration is spoiling for a fight.
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE --> OP-ED COLUMNIST Scary Movie 2 By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: February 12, 2007 Attacking Iran wouldnât be the first catastrophic mistake this administration has made, and there are indications that, at the very least, a powerful faction in the administration is spoiling for a fight. Attacking Iran would be a catastrophic mistake, even if all the allegations now being made about Iranian actions in Iraq are true. But it wouldnât be the first catastrophic mistake this administration has made, and there are indications that, at the very least, a powerful faction in the administration is spoiling for a fight. Before we get to the apparent war-mongering, letâs talk about the basics. Are there people in Iran providing aid to factions in Iraq, factions that sometimes kill Americans as well as other Iraqis? Yes, probably. But you can say the same about Saudi Arabia, which is believed to be a major source of financial support for Sunni insurgents â and Sunnis, not Iranian-backed Shiites, are still responsible for most American combat deaths. The Bush administration, however, with its close personal and financial ties to the Saudis, has always downplayed Saudi connections to Americaâs enemies. Iran, on the other hand, which had no connection to 9/11, and was actually quite helpful to the United States in the months after the terrorist attack, somehow found itself linked with its bitter enemy Saddam Hussein as part of the âaxis of evil.â So the administration has always had it in for the Iranian regime. Now, letâs do an O. J. Simpson: if you were determined to start a war with Iran, how would you do it? *** "... last year Donald Rumsfeld set up a new âIranian directorateâ inside the Pentagonâs policy shop. And last September Warren Strobel and John Walcott of McClatchy Newspapers â who were among the few journalists to warn that the administration was hyping evidence on Iraqi W.M.D. â reported that âcurrent and former officials said the Pentagonâs Iranian directorate has been headed by Abram Shulsky.â" --MORE-- http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/02/scary-movie-2-paul-krugman-attacking.html Related Right Web | Profile | Abram Shulsky Right Web | Analysis | Leo Strauss and Intelligence Strategy Abram N. Shulsky - SourceWatch Office of Special Plans - SourceWatch Labels: Abram Shulsky, Bush, Dick Cheney, fake terror, Intelligence, Iran, Iraq, neocons, PAUL KRUGMAN, PNAC, Strauss, The New York Times, war, wmds US Sending Third Carrier Strike Group to Persian Gulf - A Must Read http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/02/us-sending-third-carrier-strike-group.html Stop Him Before He Gets More Experience: FRANK RICH - Obama Got It Right http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/2007/02/stop-him-before-he-gets-more-experience_12.html EXPORTING DEATH AND VIOLENCE TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/619 More http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/38 Bombs kill at least 80 people in Iraq http://www.yahoo.com/s/135781/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070212/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq And More http://mparent7777.blogspot.com/ New website http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/ Alternate website with unique articles CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS MARC PARENT mparent7777 mparent --------------------------------- Make free worldwide PC-to-PC calls. Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger with Voice
