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The president's escalating war rhetoric on Iran As its provocations toward Iran increase, what could stop the Bush administration from commencing an attack on that country?
  • Anyone can go to Baghdad. Real men go to Tehran.

    Time Magazine, 7/22/04

    by Tony Karon:

    [...]

    The neo-conservative ideologues in the in the Bush administration have never made any secret of their desire to see the U.S. military pursue "regime change" in Tehran next. "Real men go to Tehran" was one of their playful slogans during the buildup to Operation Iraqi Freedom. And they took Iran's inclusion in President Bush's rhetorical "Axis of Evil" as a sign that their agenda might prevail. The neo-con view is that the Iranian regime is incapable of significant reform but is also inherently brittle, and might crumble from within under even minimal application of force. The administration should therefore commit itself unambiguously to a policy of regime-change, and direct its actions accordingly.

    http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,671919,00.html

    Playfull, is it, Mr. Karon?

    Want that one back?

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