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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Rumours of War: Is Bush Gearing Up to Attack Iran?, Current affairs, NewAgeISlam.com

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Rumours of War: Is Bush Gearing Up to Attack Iran?
By Conn Hallinan, Portside. Posted June 5, 2008

ust what is not clear, but over the past several months, several moves by the White House strongly suggest that the Bush administration will attack Iran sometime in the near future. According to the Asia Times, "a former assistant secretary of state still active in the foreign affairs community" said an air attack will target the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force garrisons. Not even the White House is bonkers enough to put troops on the ground amid 65 million Iranians.

There is a certain disconnect to all this, particularly given December's National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) concluding that Iran had abandoned its program to build a nuclear weapon. The NIE is the consensus view of all 16 U.S. intelligence services. At the time, the report seemed to shelve any possibility of war with Iran.

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