AFP: US could bomb Iran nuclear sites in 2007: analysts

[Eugene]

US could bomb Iran nuclear sites in 2007: analysts

by Jerome Bernard Tue Nov 21, 7:42 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush could choose military action
over diplomacy and bomb Iran's nuclear facilities next year, political analysts
in Washington agree.

"I think he is going to do it," John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org,
a military issues think tank, told AFP.

"They are going to bomb WMD facilities next summer," he added, referring to
nuclear facilities Iran says are for peaceful uses and Washington insists are
really intended to make nuclear bombs, or weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

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Joseph Cirincione, Senior Vice President for National Security and International
Policy at the Center for American Progress, a Democrat-friendly think tank, also
believes the US government could decide to attack Iran.

"It is not realistic but it does not mean we won't do it," he told AFP in an
interview. "It is less likely after the elections but it is still very possible."

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061122/wl_mideast_afp/usirannuclear_061121231147

[Boo Boo]

1. While campaigning during this last election cycle, Clark was telling

audiences that there was a fifty to seventy percent chance that Bush would attack Iran next year.