by Steve Weissman

TruthOut

01/20/05

For months before taking his second oath of office, the resolute Mr. Bush has done exactly what he promised he would. He has raced full-throttle to expand his Middle East Crusade, this time against Iran, number two on his Axis of Evil. As many of us in the chattering classes have long warned, and as Sy Hersh reports in this week's New Yorker, the president is already marching to war. ... Perhaps as early as his State of the Union address, Mr. Bush will promote this pre-emptive attack as the cutting edge of his 'War on Terror.' In fact, he knows that Iran and its Ayatollahs had nothing to do with 9/11. But neither did Saddam Hussein...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012005A.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp