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• 15 Jan 07
  

  Sam

  bush insanity iran us

  • In the aftermath, the US will support regime change, hoping to replace the ayatollahs with an Iran of the regions. The US and British governments now support a coalition of groups seeking a federal Iran.
  • Donald Rumsfeld and the AEI have developed a strategy for regime change in Iran that does not involve a ground invasion. Weapons of mass destruction will provide the rationale for military action, though it won't be limited to attacks on a few weapons factories. It will include limiting Iranian retaliatory capability, using bombers to destroy up to 10,000 targets in the first day of any war, and special forces flying in to destroy anything that's left.
  • The political context as seen from inside the White House and Downing Street is that we are in a war as serious as the second world war.
  • Bush has sent forces to the Gulf that are irrelevant to fighting the Iraqi insurgents. These include Patriot anti-missile missiles, an aircraft carrier, and cruise-missile-firing ships.

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  Sam on 2007-01-15
  Out of the Blogosphere, onto the newsprint. This insanity might actually be happening.
  

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