Even beyond its nuclear program, Iran is emerging as an increasing source of trouble for the Bush administration by inflaming the insurgencies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and in Gaza, where it has provided military and financial support to the militant Islamic group Hamas, which now controls the Gaza Strip.
This is nothing better than talk radio disinformation, as Glenn Greenwald (6/16/07) correctly observes:
Note that the numerous claims here are presented not as assertions, not as arguments, but as facts. And they are not even accompanied by the qualification that these were asserted by the article's anonymous "administration officials." Rather, they are simply stated, by the Times itself, as unquestionable facts. And they are obviously inflammatory "facts," as they depict Iran as, more or less, at war with the U.S. in multiple countries, arming and funding groups directly at war with our military.
Slots Bennett is all for an attack on Iran and so are many others. One of Bennett's on-air stooges even claimed last week that we've been at war with Iran since 1979. (Because there's a movement to have the wingnuts recall that glory that was Raygun to distract them from the dismal failure in Iraq, I hope someone on the Left will point out how Raygun traded with the enemy, as the Iran-Contra investigation discovered.)
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