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A Risky Game of Risk: MAUREEN DOWD - 'I feel good about the new war with Iran' +

MAUREEN DOWD - The New York Times | 13.01.2007 19:03 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

- DOWD: I feel good about the new war with Iran.
- Blair advocates warlike foreign policy and more

OP-ED COLUMNIST
A Risky Game of Risk
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: January 13, 2007

How can you not have confidence in the crackerjack team that brought you Operation Iraqi Freedom, which foundered and led to Operation Together Forward, which stumbled and led to Operation Together Forward II, which collapsed and was replaced by The New Way Forward, the Surge now being launched even though nobody’s together and everything’s going backward?

I say, bring it on. If a pre-emptive war in Iraq doesn’t work, why not try a pre-emptive war on Iran in Iraq?

Although Tony Snow dismissed the idea of war with Iran as an “urban legend” yesterday, Condi Rice revealed to New York Times reporters that President Bush acted months ago to parry Iran’s ambitions, issuing orders for a military campaign against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces sneaking into Iraq. Using diplomatic passports, the agents have been smuggling in sophisticated bomb-making components and infrared trigger devices, which could be used to blow up American soldiers.

The move against Iran allows the president and Dick Cheney — who was, natch, militating for the Surge — to blow off, once more, the Iraq Study Group and Congress, to push back rather than make up.

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Labels: 'surge', Bush, Cheney, Congress, Dowd, escalation, Iran, Iraq Study Group, Iraq War, Maureen Dowd, News, Politics, preemption, The New York Times

Pentagon Sees Covert Move in Somalia as Blueprint
Military operations in Somalia by American commandos, and the use of the Ethiopian Army as a surrogate force to root out operatives for Al Qaeda in the country, are a blueprint that Pentagon strategists say they hope to use more frequently in counterterrorism missions around the globe.
 http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/01/pentagon-sees-covert-move-in-somalia-as.html


Blair advocates warlike foreign policy

International Herald Tribune

By Alan Cowell

Friday, January 12, 2007
LONDON
As he seeks to define his legacy and stamp his imprint on the future, Prime Minister Tony Blair urged his successors today to maintain the warlike foreign policy that he promoted, sending troops into battle in Africa and the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq.

To retreat in the face of global terrorism, he said, would be "a catastrophe."

Mr. Blair, who has said he will leave office this year, made his appeal in the sixth of a series of lectures ranging over social, political and now defense issues, offering a valedictory resume of his almost 10 years in power.

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US sends warplanes to Turkey''s Incirlik military base: Iran attack?
Saturday, January 13, 2007

This is the base "Shock and Awe" was launched from.
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US sends warplanes to Turkey''s Incirlik military base

MIL-TURKEY-US-INCIRLIK
US sends warplanes to Turkey's Incirlik military base

ANKARA, Jan 11 (KUNA) -- U.S. F-16 jet-fighters arrived Thursday in Incirlik Air base in southern Turkish city of Adana after, the first time in three years.

According to Local Cihan News Agency, at least 16 F-16 jets joined by early warning system AWACS airplane, as well as tanker airplanes landed here at Incirlik coming from an American base in Germany.
 http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/01/us-sends-warplanes-to-turkeys-incirlik.html


The Kagan-Keane doctrine:President grasps at duo's promise of victory in Iraq
These neocons' concept of victory is not what you may think.
 http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/01/kagan-keane-doctrinepresident-grasps-at.html



Bush Authorized Raids On Iranians
 http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/01/bush-authorized-raids-on-iranians.html



U.S. Forces Fighting Iranians In Iraq
 http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/01/us-forces-fighting-iranians-in-iraq.html



The "attack Iran" meme may be a decoy for a strike on Syria:

IDF girds for possibility of war with Syria, Hezbollah in 2007 ...  http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/784053.html



The U.S.-Iran-Iraq-Israeli-Syrian War
 http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/01/us-iran-iraq-israeli-syrian-war.html



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