Bullshit Alert:: Gates Says U.S. Wants Diplomacy to Solve Iran Disputes

[spanone]

MUSCAT (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates reaffirmed to the leader of Oman on Saturday that Washington wanted to resolve its disputes with Iran diplomatically, a senior U.S. defense official said.

Governments in the Gulf are concerned that tensions between the United States and Iran could lead to a military conflict.

But Gates told Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said that "although we keep all options open with regards to Iran, we remain committed to a diplomatic solution," the official told reporters on the Pentagon chief's flight back to Washington.

The United States is at loggerheads with Tehran over a range of issues including Iran's nuclear program and U.S. accusations that Iran is destabilizing Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan.

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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-usa-iran-oman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

[magellan]

1. Oh, there's that lovely word

You can tell how close they are to attacking by the rate at which they use the word 'diplomacy'.

[spanone]

2. it's hard to be diplomatic when you don't talk

reporters just write this shit without question...the real news in this article to me is :

Governments in the Gulf are concerned that tensions between the United States and Iran could lead to a military conflict.

[TomInTib]

5. And then there is....

"although we keep all options open with regards to Iran, we remain committed to a diplomatic solution,"


They're gonna nuke 'em.

Just wait and see.

[angstlessk]

3. I see they have added Afghanistan to the list now...I recon they are

assisting the Taliban now??? Maybe Iran really :sarcasm: killed Bhutto???

[appleannie1]

4. Sounds like a replay of Iraq to me

[L. Coyote]

6. Like a Dog with a Bone, this Iran BS.

Even when they actually adhere to reason and give some indication there are several points of IQ shared by the few, the hubris monopolizers, the Bush Rs, then we call them liars? Go figure. Not to mention, this is in the NY Times, so it could have been written by Gates.

The BS is the distraction, and this is a distraction from the distraction being a distraction.

Here is the failure that they so earnestly work at distracting us from:

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