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   Here's the plain message to US policymakers, divulged in these
   leaks, that Risen emphasizes - "We invaded, and Iran won the war ...
   It’s a warning against further aggression in the region." (but which
   is unlikely to be heeded - US policy is too far gone in the
   direction of naked power and reliance on crude military measures as
   policy).

   As an extension of what Anwar Shaikh emphasizes, capitalist economic
   power exists to out-maneuver the competition for market share. That
   includes, in a turbulent and uncertain global era, maneuvering for
   domination over cheap labor, resources and untrammeled flow of
   global investment and its return in a process in which the
   initiating party seeks to impose more damage on the
   competitor/adversary than it visits upon itself, even to the point
   of risking unintended chaos. That is the nature of the capitalist
   process, and capitalist wars are an extension of that principle:
   ergo, "further aggression in the region" is a given; and the policy
   conclusion has to be that though Iran may have won the battle. we
   will continue, through necessary exercise of the power we have and
   for geopolitical and economic reasons must use, by any means
   necessary, to win the war in the sense that more damage is imposed
   than incurred. And that there is no alternative. That's what "two
   minutes to midnight" signifies.

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   *JAMES RISEN:* You see in the documents several people who were
   Iraqis who had worked with the CIA, who were now unemployed. So they
   go to the Iranians and say, “I’d be happy to work with you if you
   pay me.” And the Iranians, in these documents, are interested in
   talking to them, but the first requirement they have is that they
   tell them everything they ever did with the CIA. …

   To me, the message of these documents — and I hope this is the way
   we’ve presented it — is the United States’ invasion of Iraq was an
   historic mistake, a strategic blunder of massive proportions. We
   invaded, and Iran won the war. That is a lesson to be learned today
   in how we operate in the Middle East, what we do in the Middle East.
   It’s a warning against further aggression in the region. …

   Iran had two adversaries on its borders. One was the Taliban Afghan
   government, and the other was the Iraqi government, Saddam Hussein.
   Both were enemies of Iran. We deposed both of them. It’s such a huge
   thing to admit to yourself, as a country, that everything we’ve done
   in Iraq for the last 15 years was a mistake. All these lives lost
   were in vain. All the money poured into there has gone for a
   misbegotten, tragic mistake, that we have benefited what we now
   consider one of our biggest enemies. It’s almost like it’s such a
   huge thing to admit, that nobody wants to admit it. And I think
   that’s the real power of these documents.

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