The Nation: Rudy Giuliani's "War With Iran" Team

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from The Nation:



RUDY GIULIANI'S "WAR WITH IRAN" TEAM..."(The) foreign policy advisers he has signed up make the Vulcans of Bush look like Howard Zinn and Ramsey Clark."

That's conservative commentator and former Republican presidential contender Pat Buchanan talking about the team that is telling current Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani how to think about international affairs in general and the war on terror in particular.

And here's the interesting part: Buchanan is suggesting that historian Zinn and former Attorney General Clark, as much men of the left as the former adviser to Presidents Nixon and Reagan is a man of the right, are a good deal more rational in their world views than the people advising Giuliani.

The neoconservative "Vulcans" -- as the circle around Vice President Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refer to themselves -- got Bush and the U.S. into the military misadventure that is Iraq. Now, an even more dangerous crew of Giuliani advisers looks to war with Iran.

Buchanan notes that the "team leader" of the group counseling the former mayor of New York on how to deal with global threats is Charles Hill, who the conservative columnist recalls is "a co-signer of the Sept. 20, 2001, neocon ultimatum to Bush, nine days after 9-11, warning the president if he did not attack Iraq, his failure to do so 'will constitute an early and perhaps decisive surrender to the war on international terrorism.'"

As Buchanan note, "Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11." .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=251099