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All Americans want to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons and interfering on the ground inside Iraq. Yet President Bush’s saber rattling gives the US little additional leverage to engage and dissuade Iran, and, more than likely, simply accelerates a dangerous slide into war. The United States can do better than this.
Whatever the pace of Iran’s nuclear efforts, in the give and take of the Administration’s rhetoric and accusations, we are approaching the last moments to head off looming conflict.
Cannot the world’s most powerful nation deign speak to the resentful and scheming regional power that is Iran? Can we not speak of the interests of others, work to establish a sustained dialogue, and seek to benefit the people of Iran and the region? Could not such a dialogue, properly conducted, begin a process that could, over time, help realign hardened attitudes and polarizing views within the region? And isn’t it easier to undertake such a dialogue now, before more die, and more martyrs are created to feed extremist passions?
Please join the Iraq War veterans at VoteVets.org and me and sign the petition to President Bush today. Military force against Iran is not the solution now, and if we adopt the right strategy, perhaps it need never be. Urge him to work with our allies and use every diplomatic, political, and economic option at our disposal to deal with Iran. War is not the answer.


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The Secret History of the Impending War with Iran That the White House Doesn’t Want You to Know

From Esquire magazine:Two former high-ranking policy experts from the Bush Administration say the U.S. has been gearing up for a war with Iran for years, despite claiming otherwise. It'll be Iraq all ...
Posted by Stopiranwar.com on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:26:00 PST

Wes Clark: the Next War

From the Washington Post, September 16, 2007:Testifying before Congress last week, Gen. David H. Petraeus appeared commanding, smart and alive to the challenges that his soldiers face in Iraq. But he ...
Posted by Stopiranwar.com on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:57:00 PST

An epidemic of denial over Iran

From Foreign Policy:For at least a year and a half, a dangerous conventional wisdom has been percolating within the foreign-policy community and it is this: America ain't gonna attack Iran. Whether ig...
Posted by Stopiranwar.com on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:14:00 PST

Wes Clark: The military in Iraq are resolving nothing

From The Independent:  There are more important issues than troop numbers and withdrawal dates.  The US should take a lead in talking to Iran  nowWhen well-qualified retir...
Posted by Stopiranwar.com on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:25:00 PST

Pat Buchanan: "Bush is now moving into Phase III in his War on Terror: Iran."

By Pat Buchanan:Those who hoped that  with the victory of the antiwar party in 2006, the departure of Rumsfeld and the neocons from the Pentagon, the rise of Condi and the eclipse of Cheney  America...
Posted by Stopiranwar.com on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:32:00 PST

US ’poised to strike Iran’

From the Australian:BOB Baer, the former Middle East CIA operative whose first book about his life inspired the oil-and-espionage thriller Syriana, is working on a new book on Iran, but says he was to...
Posted by Stopiranwar.com on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:10:00 PST

"There WILL be an attack on Iran!"

From Time:-------Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within the next six months. And they think that as long as we have bombers and missiles in the air, we will hit Ira...
Posted by Stopiranwar.com on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:26:00 PST

Cheney and Lieberman push provocation strategy

From Alternet:---------------------I was never one of those who believed the Bush administration was getting ready to attack Iran in 2006 or early 2007. But it is now clear that at least Vice Presiden...
Posted by Stopiranwar.com on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:41:00 PST

Iranian Revolutionary Guard to Be Labeled ’Terrorist’

From The Washington Post: The United States has decided to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country's 125,000-strong elite military branch, as a "specially designated global terrorist,...
Posted by Stopiranwar.com on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:48:00 PST

Why Terrorists Aren’t Soldiers

By WESLEY K. CLARK and KAL RAUSTIALAPublished: August 8, 2007 (New York Times)   The line between soldier and civilian has long been central to the law of war. Today that line is being blu...
Posted by Stopiranwar.com on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:35:00 PST