http://clipmarks.com/clipper/vk2yoc/tag/iran/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/vk2yoc/tag/iran/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/7105CFF7-A908-4DEE-B250-D0A3C54E7B14/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/vk2yoc/">vk2yoc</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://thinkprogress.org/iran-military-option" title="http://thinkprogress.org/iran-military-option">thinkprogress.org</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2 class="title">SEN. CHUCK HAGEL (R-NE)</H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/vk2yoc/512/C9504FEA-8F69-4B8A-8C6C-6CCE829C5BAE.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>a military option, is not a viable, feasible, responsible option</STRONG>,</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2 class="title">RET. AIR FORCE LT COL. SAM GARDINER</H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/vk2yoc/512/CAED6E9E-FB76-45D3-8A59-6EEC80C19B8B.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>You have no military solution for the issues of Iran. And you have to make diplomacy work.</STRONG></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2 class="title">JOSEPH CIRINCIONE, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT</H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/vk2yoc/512/F0B1FD3E-1DDA-4ACC-BB1A-EC0BB9B69792.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>[A] military strike would be disastrous for the United States.</STRONG></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2 class="title">REP. JOHN MURTHA (D-PA)</H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/vk2yoc/512/17E0158C-8281-4E7E-8478-4E695230C4B8.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>the president of the United States does not have a military option. He can say he has a military option; he does not have a military option</STRONG>.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2 class="title">CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AND DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES</H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/vk2yoc/512/A35F88C9-610F-4FF4-BBD1-17F3DED0247A.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>the CIA and DIA have war-gamed the likely consequences of a U.S. pre-emptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. No one liked the outcome. As an Air Force source tells it, ‘The war games were unsuccessful at preventing the conflict from escalating.</STRONG></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2 class="title">FORMER COUNTERTERROR CHIEF RICHARD CLARKE</H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/vk2yoc/512/75E201D7-1E37-4B2C-A973-A0BA26BDD696.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">[W]e’ve thought about military options against Iran off and on for the last 20 years, and they’re just not good, because you don’t know what the end game is.</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/iran/" rel="tag">iran</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/war/" rel="tag">war</a></div>http://thinkprogress.org/iran-military-optionWed, 17 Oct 2007 09:59:08 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/D3B079D6-98FE-4FA6-B128-5EC42975CFFC/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/vk2yoc/">vk2yoc</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/17/wputin117.xml" title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/17/wputin117.xml">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1> Putin favours Iran with military warning to US</H1></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="story2">President Vladimir Putin handed the Iranian regime a welcome publicity boost yesterday when he delivered a stern warning against US military action during a historic summit in Teheran.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/vk2yoc/512/AF29B8F1-4219-44C2-A499-1602BC0F95AE.jpg" alt="Putin and Ahmadinejad in Teheran on Tuesday" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="story2">Mr Putin also secured the vital backing of Azerbaijan in a five-nation pact by the Caspian states to prevent the US from using the region as a staging ground for military action against Iran.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="story2">Although Russia lent its reluctant backing to two United Nations resolutions imposing sanctions on Iran, it has been stridently opposed to escalating the penalties after Teheran refused to stop its uranium enrichment programme.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="story2">Among Western diplomats, opinion is divided as to whether Russia — which has little to gain from a nuclear Iran — will eventually acquiesce.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="story2">Among potential American targets would be Iran's first nuclear power plant, which Russia has been building, despite US displeasure, at the Gulf port of Bushehr for the past decade.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/war/" rel="tag">war</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/iran/" rel="tag">iran</a></div>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/17/wputin117.xmlWed, 17 Oct 2007 09:37:25 GMT