Iran Reviews > Centcom Pick Warns of Iran Influence in Gulf Region (Washington Post)

[Random News From Iran] "Iran is positioning its military to deny U.S. access to the Persian Gulf while acting as a influence in the region, President Bush's nominee to command U.S. forces in the Middle East told the Senate yesterday. Adm.

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[Thewashingtonnote.com] The Washington Note: What was not impressive was that while Hillary Clinton bemoaned our situation in Iraq and told Americans that we still have a lot to worry about from a reconstituting al Qaeda network and from Iran and its nuclear weapons pretensions, she didn't really give us any ideas how to move forward. While she embraced diplomacy and talking to bad guys, she should have stated her commitment to the kind of "New Diplomatic Offensive" that the Baker-Hamilton Study Group recommended in the Middle East.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com [Blog.washingtonpost.com] Washington Post: World Opinion Roundup: It was formerly owned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a tycoon now serving a prison sentence over charges that international observers said were largely cooked up by the Kremlin to remove a potential Putin adversary from the national spotlight. Kommersant has an English-language Web site that reported on the conference of Putin critics and provides sympathetic coverage to reform movements in Ukraine and Georgia

http://corner.nationalreview.com [Corner.nationalreview.com] The Corner on National Review Online: For example: "Neither has the Bush administration exerted itself over another libertarian proposal, health savings accounts, which almost certainly would be rejected by risk-averse voters." Actually, the administration exerted itself successfully to attach health savings accounts to the Medicare/prescription drugs bill, and the number of such accounts has been growing enough to inspire alarm from health-care experts of a liberal bent.

[Attytood.com] Attytood: Laying out the reasons for war, Bush that night mentioned al-Qaida and the terrorist attacks of September 11 thirteen times in less than an hour, yet not a single journalist challenged the presumed connection Bush was making between al-Qaida and Iraq, despite the fact that intelligence sources had publicly questioned any such association. And during the Q&A session, nobody bothered to ask Bush about the elusive Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind whom Bush had vowed to capture.

http://stopwaroniran.blogspot.com [Stopwaroniran.blogspot.com] Stop War on Iran: The Washington Post has reported that the military has been secretly flying surveillance drones over Iran since 2004 using radar, video, still photography and air filters to detect traces of nuclear activity not accessible to satellites. Hersh reported that U.S. combat troops have been ordered to enter Iran covertly to collect targeting data, but sources have not confirmed that to The Post.

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