Dick Cheney wants to bomb somewhere: what else is new?

Still, it's not good news: Cheney urging strikes on Iran by Warren P. Strobel, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers 08/09/07.

War and the threat of war, that seems to be the only kind of foreign policy these people can conceive. We should also remember that Strobel, Walcott and Youssef of McClatchy (formerly Knight-Ridder) have been consistently doing some of the best reporting on the Iraq War and intelligence issues. They write:

The debate has been accompanied by a growing drumbeat of allegations about Iranian meddling in Iraq from U.S. military officers, administration officials and administration allies outside government and in the news media. It isn't clear whether the media campaign is intended to build support for limited military action against Iran, to pressure the Iranians to curb their support for Shiite groups in Iraq or both.

Nor is it clear from the evidence the administration has presented whether Iran, which has long-standing ties to several Iraqi Shiite groups, including the Mahdi Army of radical cleric Muqtada al Sadr and the Badr Organization, which is allied with the U.S.-backed government of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, is a major cause of the anti-American and sectarian violence in Iraq or merely one of many. At other times, administration officials have blamed the Sunni Muslim group al Qaida in Iraq for much of the violence. (my emphasis)

When you see reports about Iran aiding insurgents in Iraq, pay attention to how many of them come from Michael Gordon, who co-authored some of Judith Miller's notorious pieces on Iraqi WMDs and is generally a Pentagon stenographer.

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