Have Hawks Won a Round on Iraq Escalation?

The George W. Bush administration recently concluded that the increase in rocket attacks on coalition targets by Shi'ite forces over the summer was a deliberate move by Iran to escalate the war in order to put pressure on the United States to accept Iranian influence...

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Iran Nuke Moves Hint at Interest in Deal

Iran's unexpected agreement with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Mohamed ElBaradei to resolve old issues surrounding its nuclear program in less than two months, and the fact that it has installed only two-thirds of the centrifuges previously announced,...

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Source: Israel Told US to Target Iran, Not Iraq

Israeli officials warned the George W. Bush administration that an invasion of Iraq would be destabilizing to the region and urged the United States to instead target Iran as the primary enemy, according to former administration official Lawrence Wilkerson. Wilkerson,...

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US Blames Iran for Casualties from Its Own Attacks

When a top U.S. commander in Iraq reported last week that attacks by Shi'ite militias with links to Iran had risen to 73 percent of all July attacks that had killed or wounded U.S. forces in Baghdad, he claimed it was because of an effort by Iran to oust the United...

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Anbar ‘Turnaround’ Undercuts War Rationale

In hailing what he has called an "almost breathtaking" turnaround in Anbar Province that has weakened al-Qaeda as a triumph for his new military strategy in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus has put a favorable spin on a development which actually challenges the...

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US Demanding Iran Restrain Shi’ite Groups

A little-noticed statement by US Ambassador Ryan Crocker after last week's US-Iran meeting revealed that the main demand of the George W. Bush administration to Iran is not to stop supplying weapons to Shi'ite militias but to use its influence with Shi'ites in Iraq to...

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Bush Line Distorts Iran’s Real Interest in Iraq

As US and Iranian diplomats met in Baghdad Tuesday for a second round of talks on Iraq, the domestic US political climate appears decidedly more supportive of an aggressive US posture toward Iran than just a few months ago, reflecting the apparent triumph of the...

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Bush’s Shielding of Musharraf at Risk

The growing crisis over Islamic extremism in Pakistan is drawing attention to the complicity of that country's military government in the rise of the biggest haven for Islamic terrorism in the world. The issue, which is also linked to the threat to U.S. troops in...

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