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Blix states flatly: "The most recent U.S. intelligence report now makes war an impossibility."
This statement is an optimists view of an administration dedicated to pursuit neoconservative goals worldwide, which certainly include U.S. dominance of Iran and the broader region. It also discounts the tremendous influence of Israel on U.S. policy. Israel may hold their own key to start a U.S.-Iran military engagement that is independent of the politics and merits of any U.S. pre-emptive strike on Iran. After the latest NIE was released:
U.S. military action against Iran is still possible, and perhaps likely:
We should not discount the possibility of highly motivated interests making a 2008 war between the US and Iran a reality.