Faux News: Neocons are "beating the drums" for war in Iran

[sabra]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200353,00.html

Bush Critics Want Tougher U.S. Approach to Iran


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But others say these critics, defined as members of the "neoconservative" wing of the Republican Party and the base of President Bush's foreign policy support, lost their credibility when they pushed for a war against Iraq that has so far been marred by increased sectarian violence and an ongoing insurgency that has killed more than 2,500 U.S. soldiers and thousands more Iraqi civilians.

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“These people don’t have the foggiest of the Middle East,” Tony Sullivan, an Arabist and chief Middle East correspondent for Strategic Forecasting Inc., a private intelligence consulting agency, said of the hawks.

Striking Iran “would be the greatest threat to the defense and promotion of U.S. national interests that I could think of,” Sullivan said. While Bush could “eviscerate" Syria, “Iran has enormous proxies in Iraq, the Gulf oil fields … Iran is in a position to explode the entire Middle East the first time a bomb drops.”


“People made that same argument with Afghanistan and Iraq. It didn’t happen,” countered Rubin.

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Pena warned that it is naive to think hawkish conservative voices are only on the outside of the administration, trying to push it toward a more aggressive foreign policy in the Middle East. Rather, the administration is using its supporters to whip up this sentiment while it plays out the diplomatic card in the United Nations.

"It's just what happened in Iraq — first, you get AEI and the media to start beating the drums" for war, said Pena. "I think the fact that the voices are getting a little louder is an indication of where the administration is likely to move."

[Minnesota Libra]

1. Yea and how many neocons will put their asses in harms way???nt

[Freedom_from_Chains]

2. That would be zero.

Actually fighting a war is for the commoners, that's what they're for.

[Sailor for Warner]

5. Sigh

I know plenty of Neocons in the military....right up until the first time they get shot at then their tune changes mighty quick. :evilgrin:

[Minnesota Libra]

9. You've got that right nt

[npincus]

3. let THEM fight it.

[stepnw1f]

4. They Are Crazy and Stupid

or self-destructively giving into their own greed to bilk China. Yes China is supplying the US with the funds to pay Haliburton and every contractor in Iraq. And WE ALL will pay the interest as well as the tab. Stupid or crazy? Take pick... we need to lock these mothafuckers up for life.

[Initech]

6. “People made that same argument with Afghanistan and Iraq.

It didnt happen."

Yeah. And here's why:

Because the neocon war profiteers who bought the white house and the supreme court in the 2000 election were so itching to go to war that there was absolutely nothing to stop them, not even if the democrats occupied 100% of both houses.

[MadMaddie]

7. Um...and what military force are they going to send to Iran?

There are not enough boots to even think of doing something as insane as this...If the US goes on it's own like it did with Iraq and attacks Iran....

I fear there will be more countries than just in the Middle East that will say enough is enough....what they will do..they know the US has been weekend by the bullshit * cabal....

[roguevalley]

8. they are?Then send them.

[joe_shmoe]

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