Avoiding a War with Iran

[Marleyb]

There have been many signs that war is imminent, perhaps, none as convincing as the unexpected announcement last year that both General Electric and Halliburton were picking up stakes and leaving Iran.

Is Halliburton normally that squeamish about ethical issues related to trading with nations boycotted by the US?

The recess appointment of mad-hatter John Bolton as ambassador to the UN was another indication that Washington was on the warpath. The fiery Bolton was "back-doored" into his position against the strong dissent of Democratic senators for one reason alone; to bully the Security Council into another preemptive war. He hasn’t disappointed.

Just yesterday, Bolton lashed out in one of his familiar tirades saying, "This will be a test for the Council, and appropriately so, because the Iranian pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile delivery systems threatens their region and threatens the world as a whole."

Whoa!

No one except Bolton and his neocon friends in the hard-right think-tanks have made such unsupportable allegations. Could it be that the whole nuclear weapons issue is just a convenient pretext for war?

Could it be (as the Downing Street Memo avers) that the "facts and intelligence are being fixed around the policy"?
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