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Friday, 7 December, 2007

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  • 7 Dec 07, 05:40 PM

Iran policy

bush203x100.jpgThis week the White House's Iran policy fell into disarray, and tonight we bring you the inside track on how it happened.

We have an insider's account of the meltdown following the US Intelligence report which said that Tehran had stopped nuclear weapons development in 2003.

Senior "Hawks" and "Doves" in the administration have told Newsnight that the strategy towards Iran is effectively in "ruins" following the report. Peter Marshall reveals the tensions and rows that have marked the administration's policy towards Tehran.

Media mogul

is now officially a 21st Century media mogul. Rupert Murdoch has carried out a huge shake-up of his media empire, and has effectively anointed his son as his successor.

The 34-year-old second son now has responsibility for his European and Asian businesses, so will he wield political influence in the same way as his father, or are we about to witness a change of strategy - Tony Blair famously jetted to Australia to address a News Corp sales conference for Rupert Murdoch 鈥.. Would Gordon Brown do the same for his son?

Two former editors - Peter Preston from the Guardian and David Yelland from the soar away (Murdoch owned) Sun will be in the studio.

The Odd Couple

, known to some as The Chuckle Brothers, or the Odd Couple, are on their first joint visit to the US to drum up investment for Northern Ireland.

This afternoon they had tea at The White House with President Bush following meetings with Edward Kennedy and Hillary Clinton. It is a sign of how much Northern Ireland has changed but there is unease among the grassroots in NI at just how close the two men, sworn enemies through 30 years of the Troubles, seem to be.

And the violence in the province is not over yet, with most recently the violent death of Paul Quinn in Co. Monaghan 鈥 which many think was carried out by dissident republicans.

And we're bidding for Jonathan 鈥淚鈥檓 worth 1,000 journalists" Ross. Oh.. I can see pigs in flight outside the window, Kirsty

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THE 鈥淣鈥 AND THE 鈥淨鈥 OF IT

I can鈥檛 help seeing a parallel between the intelligence report that says Iran has no WMD and Tony鈥檚 dossier that said Iraq had them. One was to get the bombing started and the other? Might it be a way to call it off without being seen to back down because it鈥檚 a dumb idea?
We all know about inconvenient truth;
convenient lie anyone?

  • 2.
  • At 07:40 PM on 07 Dec 2007,
  • Fabian Garcia wrote:

Greg Pallast at service of big corporations (this time to CHEVRON before TEXACO) went to Ecuador to distort the true about the law suit (which stared 14 years ago)the indigenous people are taking against chevron who did a great damage to this people spilling oil on their land in the amazon 15 years ago and covering with land and vegetacion and saying that they have cleaned all .
Mr Greg try to mix this law suit with politic issues like the present gobernment and ties with Chavez , hates to Bush and many things nothing has to do with this problem the indigenous people are fighting for .

  • 3.
  • At 09:36 PM on 07 Dec 2007,
  • Bedd Gelert wrote:

For anyone who has missed it, check out Justin Webb's interview with John Bolton featuring 'Have Your Say' questions from around the world, including viewers in Iran.

He's given it some good coverage on his blog as well, and is doing his traffic figures no end of good by talking about religion as well as politics. If sex is covered next week, I can him giving Mark Mardell in the 'must read 成人论坛 blog' stakes.

THE 鈥淣鈥 AND THE 鈥淨鈥 OF IT

I can鈥檛 help seeing a parallel between the intelligence report that says Iran has no WMD and Tony鈥檚 dossier that said Iraq had them. One was to get the bombing started and the other? Might it be a way to call it off without being seen to back down because it鈥檚 a dumb idea?
We all know about inconvenient truth;
convenient lie anyone?

  • 5.
  • At 10:20 PM on 07 Dec 2007,
  • Malcolm Jones wrote:

Jonathan Ross is the 成人论坛's sub prime problem.

The Execs have shelled out millions on him in the belief that he's the modern day Morecambe and Wise, when really what they've landed themselves with is an overpriced liability.

  • 6.
  • At 12:03 AM on 08 Dec 2007,
  • L Stanley wrote:

Thank goodness the White House's Iran policy is in disarray. One less illegal war for them to perpetrate. Still, I doubt they could have managed to press the case without Blair's help from Broken Britain, and a good job there is nowhere else that needs to be searched for phoney WMD.

  • 7.
  • At 02:04 AM on 08 Dec 2007,
  • Liam Coughlan wrote:

They knew that a war against Iran was unwinnable. This is why Iran will probably complete their nuclear development activities, and forever own a deterrent that can be used to protect themselves from attacks by Israel and the USA. The pity is that Iran's leaders seem hellbent on using nukes, so the world is a fairly less safe place as a result of Bush policy

  • 8.
  • At 09:07 AM on 08 Dec 2007,
  • Peter wrote:

Speaking of policies in disarray.

While I am sure the factual reporting on this morning's 成人论坛 'news' was accurate, can anyone explain how our noble Gitmo returnees came/come to be 'British', especially as one seems to be going 'home' to Saudi Arabia?

(Excuse the 'quotes', but per 成人论坛 reporting policy it is a useful technique to say one thing and mean another whilst trying to seem objective).

On Iran Policy:

Our Service continues.
;-)

Salaam/Shalom/Shanthi/Dorood/Peace
Namaste -ed

Save the bales!

  • 10.
  • At 02:48 PM on 08 Dec 2007,
  • wrote:

Colleagues,

The service referred to above is at:

And my namelink is worth a look for a wild ride

Enjoy the weekend

Salinte
ed

  • 11.
  • At 07:06 PM on 08 Dec 2007,
  • Adrienne wrote:

THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES II?

It would be especially inconvenient for Israel (at minimum) if, in response to an attack on Iran, Russia/China defended their guest of honour at the SCO get-together back in the summer.




Is this a case of 'The War on Terror' having failed (please, no events to prove the contrary), both sides need the old bogeyman back in order to keep their own people in check (see crime and statistics etc).

  • 12.
  • At 06:36 PM on 09 Dec 2007,
  • John Braddock wrote:

So the IRA and the UDF are going to the States to drum up finance - this time openly . They have been doing this in secret for the past 40 yrs. whilst having been declared terrorists by HM govt. Of course GW Bush and his predecessors know all about funding terrorism in foreign countries - Afghanistan ( Taleban) , Nicaragua and Chile spring to mind. This will obviously have a new spin now that Murdoch Jnr. is running the Sun and NoTW. He can get rid of 1000 journalists and afford to employ Jonathan Ross - because he's worth it ! and doesn't need to be dumbed down.

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