IS WAR WITH IRAN NEXT? WHITE HOUSE UPS ANTI-IRAN RHETORIC

The Bush White House has been upping the rhetoric about going to war with Iran, and a sure-fire way to know the Bush administration is secretly planning on attacking IRAN is to watch FOX NEWS where all day long the anchors and pundits are talking about war with IRAN.

Everyone knows FOX NEWS is the Bush White House propaganda machine and FOX NEWS is living up to their moniker by selling the American public on the need to go to war with IRAN.

General Petraeus also put in his two cents about IRAN.

The table is being set.

War with IRAN is just around the corner.

Editorial comment by BILL CORCORAN, editor of CORKSPHERE.

All the talk is about Iraq, but concern about Iran is mounting

Warren P. Strobel McClatchy Newspapers
last updated: April 10, 2008 07:56:17 PM
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/story/33306.html

WASHINGTON — The hours of congressional testimony, the speeches and the press conferences this week were all, nominally, about Iraq.

But another, equally explosive question — what to do about Iran — loomed over the presentations by Army Gen. David Petraeus, the American military commander in Iraq, over U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and over U.S. strategy for the Middle East.

Petraeus and Crocker, arguing that there's been progress in stabilizing Iraq since President Bush ordered a troop build-up there last year, fingered Iran's support for Shiite militias in Iraq, which they called "special groups," as the No. 1 threat to Iraq's security.

"Unchecked, the special groups pose the greatest long-term threat to the viability of a democratic Iraq," Petraeus told the House Armed Services Committee.

Iran also announced this week that it's begun installing 6,000 high-speed centrifuges to enrich uranium that could be used for nuclear weapons. While U.S. officials cast doubt on the claim by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the announcement underlined Tehran's refusal to abide by U.N. Security Council demands that it suspend uranium enrichment.

Concerns also have been growing over the unpredictable consequences of a possible attack on Israel by the Iranian- and Syrian-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah. The militant Shiite Muslim group blames the Israelis for a car bombing in Syria that killed one of the group's longtime leaders, and anti-terrorism experts in the U.S., Israel and Western Europe think that some attempt at retaliation is almost inevitable.