The US official who declared the White House's hunt for illicit weapons in Iraq to be a failure driven by faulty intelligence has warned the Bush administration against repeating its mistakes in the current war of words with Iran.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A6DF7B6F-83F9-4BB0-902B-26D6A5CBA19B.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6d2cc


From Information Clearing House

The Senate Intelligence Committee has launched what its chairman called a "pre-emptive" examination of U.S. intelligence on Iran as part of an effort to avoid the problems that plagued America's prewar assessments on Iraq.

http://207.44.245.159/article7989.htm

http://dailydraftdispatch.org/05_02/06_iran2.html


Informant: Tom Kertes

From ufpj-news

A military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would be "a mistake", the European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, has warned.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4240261.stm


From Information Clearing House

by Joshua Holland, Flytrap

It's dangerous when your foreign policymakers believe their own propaganda. Good policy can't flow from shoddy analysis, and that's what we're looking at in Iran.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/but_who_will_stand_with_us.php

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2196/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

by William Fisher

Good news! The Prince of Darkness has morphed into The Prince of Peace. Having fixed Iraq, Richard Perle is now ready to advise us on Iran. The former Assistant Defense Secretary in the Reagan Administration, and Neocon darling, appeared on a recent Charlie Rose show on PBS, following his nemesis, Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker magazine. When Perle appeared, Rose quoted Hersh: “The Neocons believe that if we take out Iranian nuke sites with precision airstrikes, the people will rise up and overthrow the mullahs.”....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb05/Fisher0202.htm

US and British policy has ensured that the EU will itself be in such turmoil over the next year that it will not be able to respond in any meaningful sense to a new act of Anglo-American aggression. There are four reasons for this.

http://207.44.245.159/article7933.htm