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casus belli iraq
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That's what happened to Píame when conservative columnist Robert Novak, acting on a tip from George W Bush's White House, penned a column about her husband in The Washington Post on July 14, 2003. The column included the sentence "Wilson never worked for the CIA, but his wife, Valerie Flame, is an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction," which effectively destroyed Flame's career. Novak was responding to Wilson's own New York Times op-ed piece about a recent fact-finding trip to Niger where he discovered all those centrifuges and yellowcake uranium tonnage (remember those?) that served as the White House's casus belli in Iraq were total fabrications.
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Nevertheless, we need to think beyond the Iraq Study Groups important but limited vision. In fact, most of the elements for a grand Middle East bargain are in place - not unlike the foreign policy realists' gemstone, the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648 (which ended decades of religiopolitical warfare). The question is whether there is a will to work for it. Such a bargain wouldn't be pretty. It would stabilize and reinforce the power of repressive and undemocratic governments, including those of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Israel, and Egypt, and wouldn't end US Middle East hegemony. But, it could help bring the Iraqi civil war to an end, prevent a wider regional war, and facilitate the US withdrawal from Iraq. There are understandable fears that, as with the Vietnam-era "Tonkin Gulf inciden...
... be an incident manufactured to serve as a casus belli to initiate military attacks against Iraq. T...
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It should also be stressed that some elements in the U.S. officer corps and the Defense Intelligence Agency are clearly spoiling for a fight with Iran because the Iranian-supported [Shi]'a nationalists in Iraq are a major obstacle to U.S. dominance in Iraq. Although very few U.S. troops in Iraq are killed by Shi'a, military spokesmen have been attempting to give the impression that Tehran is ordering hits on U.S. troops, a clear casus belli. Disinformation campaigns that accuse Iran of trying to destabilize the Shi'a dominated Iraqi government - a government Iran actually supports - could lay the groundwork for a war. Likewise, with the U.S. military now beginning patrols on the Iran-Iraq border, the possibility is enhanced of a hostile incident spinning out of control. The Iranians hav...
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... along with Bush's notoriously transparent casus belli in Iraq. They are left with petty quibbling ...
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Last month Mohammed el-Baradei, head of the UN's feckless International Atomic Energy Agency, said Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in six months.
...The first casus belli was wrong. The second was manifestly correct...
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... definitive about what the U.S.-led action in Iraq will mean for the future of Iraqis, for regional s... is that with the evaporation of its stated casus belli--a threatening Iraq armed with weapons of ma...
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Every lie contains a truth and every truth contains a lie is a safe rule of thumb when Shakespeare's powers of observation are applied to the Middle East. With each shake of the kaleidoscope, the configuration of the key players becomes a wilderness of mirrors. Add to the mix a whispering campaign in which rumors and innuendo are spread to conceal ulterior motives, and sorting fact from fancy is frequently mission impossible. Good disinformation contains a kernel of truth spun with a tissue of lies.
... duplicate the June 1981 bombing of Osirak, Iraq's French-built nuclear reactor, just before it wen... servicemen and women inside Iraq." The casus belli is now in place. Also in place off the Irani...
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THE breathing may be a little easier in the armchair sanctorums of the nation's foreign policy set after the recent speech by John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee presumptive. Addressing the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles, McCain rejected the swaggering, bully-boy ways of President George W. Bush in favor of closer international coordination and counsel.
... Geneva Conventions, set up three countries - Iraq, North Korea and Iran - as targets in waiting and in fact invaded Iraq with no proven casus belli. For now, at least, McCain sings a very diff...
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...We now know that the evidence for the casus belli--that Iraq was developing chemical, biologic...
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... the middle of an expensive and bloody war in Iraq, and an equally difficult and dangerous campaign t... just describing, could take place and be casus belli. I take some confidence from the fact I do n...
