Why Iran remains public enemy No 1 for increasingly desperate Bush

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http://www.independent.ie/world-news/why-iran-remains-public-enemy-no-1-for-increasingly-desperate-bush-1044214.html

By Adrian Hamilton
Thursday July 26 2007


WHEN Gordon Brown flies to Washington at the weekend, top of the summit agenda will be the discussion of more punitive sanctions on Iran for its refusal to stop enriching uranium.

It's perverse. It's wrong. But it's a fair bet that Brown and Bush will come out of their talks firm in purpose, serious in tone, in tightening the squeeze on America's number one enemy of choice.

But why the obsession with Iran? For the US it is simple. Look at virtually every problem America now has in the Middle East, examine all the hopes and plans it had for the region when it first marched into Iraq, and you find Iran as the single and most powerful obstacle to its success.

Its alleged nuclear ambitions (and they are just alleged at the moment) threaten Israel and the balance of power in the region in a way even Saddam Hussein never did. Its arms and training are said to be behind the insurgency in Iraq and even the Taliban attacks in Afghanistan.

For a president whose Iraq policy has lost the support of the American public and whose personal rating has fallen to an all-time low, Iran is not just a useful scapegoat but an enemy whose defeat might yet restore his glory.

[Maribelle]

1. Iran is a useful decoy

and Bush is the real quacker

[seemslikeadream]

2. increasingly desperate

CHENEY

[whistle]

3. Sounds like Bush's and Cheney's "Wag the Dog"

[DCKit]

4. That deluded SOB needs a serious wake up call.

What was the deal with his summit with Daddy anyway? As if we didn't know what was going on there. But I never heard any details.

[Vilis Veritas]

5. Iran, Terror, Osama, New-clear...

BOO!

[no_hypocrisy]

6. A Hail Mary Pass if there ever was one.

[Atman]

7. Restore his glory HOW exactly. It's not like we're clamoring in fear of Iran

As much as they try to make us, it's not working. I can see the possibility of people rallying around the jerk if he were to actually protect us and save us from something, but who the hell is all worried about Iran except for Bush's backwash?

So gosh...I guess they'll just have to make up a reason for us to fear Iran. It's coming. You can feel it.

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