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Deja Vu?

"Is the Bush Administration mistaking Iran for pre-war Iraq? Recent events certainly sound eerily familiar."

So begins a piece by Ari Berman in The Nation. He catalogues quite a few things which sound and look all too like the precursor to what, then, became the Iraq War - and now looks like the next war, this time with Iran. Read the Berman "list" here.

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Anonymous said…
Sorry if I sound alarmist, but I believe we have no choice here. In your future visions I bet you were not thinking of Pakistan and Iran in Islamist control with thousands of nukes waiting for the right 9-11 moment to meet Allah. Do you really think we can afford to let that happen? Have you noticed that Russia and China are curiously waiting for the fallout to reorganize the world economic system around what is left standing?

The mistake everyone is making is that there is no threat. Ask Israel if that is true. We are after all in the breaking moments of WWIII whether you like it or not.

With the disdain I have for Bush's imigration policy, akin to giving away priceless lands to the likes of Mexico and South America by default and inaction. Your concerns about war (and The Nation's Editors) sound more like whining versions of Peace in Our Time instead of the bravado and common sense of Winston Churchill.

Honestly, given the grave task of neutralizing the nuke capability of Iran vs losing Washington, NY, LA, SF, Seattle, and a dozen other key LIBERAL US cities to terrorists or even eventual ICBMs I choose the lesser of two evils.
September 22, 2006 11:10 am
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