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Ten Reasons Why Conservatives Should Oppose War with Iran
One… Conservatives believe that war is a “last option” that should only be initiated when there is a direct and imminent threat to the United States. Iran does not currently pose such a threat.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates: If we go to war against Iran, our grandchildren will be fighting jihadists in America
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates warns of the consequences if the Bush Administration staged a pre-emptive strike on Iran: “We’ll create generations of jihadists, and our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America.”
Preparing the Battlefield
Seymour Hersh is the investigative reporter who broke the My Lai and Abu Ghraib stories. Now, in this month’s The New Yorker magazine, Hersh talks about the Bush administration’s covert activities in Iran. All the more shocking for the non-sensational way he presents the information, he reveals that we have been funding terrorist groups such as the Mujaheddin-e-Khalq in Iran. Bush and Cheney have built multiple chains of command that report to them, not to commanders in the field…
McCain at foreign policy crossroads
McCain has assembled a diverse group of advisors for his campaign, but should he win the presidency this fall, he will have to choose between two markedly different approaches to guiding America in the world.
Dick Cheney ‘tried to block North Korea nuclear deal’
Vice President Dick Cheney fought furiously to block efforts by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to strike a controversial US compromise deal with North Korea over the communist state’s nuclear program.
They called Reagan an appeaser, too
“The most dangerous summit for the west since Adolf Hitler met with Chamberlain!” — Newt Gingrich, 1985
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