"But the important thing is that the Iranians agreed to talk unconditionally, Mann says. "They specifically told me time and again that they were doing this because they understood the impact of this attack on the U.S., and they thought that if they helped us unconditionally, that would be the way to change the dynamic for the first time in twenty-five years."
"She believed them."
"But while Leverett was still moving into the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House, Mann was wrapped up in the crisis over a ship called the Karin A that left Iran loaded with fifty tons of weapons. According to the Israeli navy, which intercepted the Karin A in the Red Sea, it was headed for the PLO. In staff meetings at the White House, Mann argued for caution. The Iranian government probably didn't even know about the arms shipments. It was issuing official denials in the most passionate way, even sending its deputy foreign minister onto Fox News to say "categorically" that "all segments of the Iranian government" had nothing to do with the arms shipment, which meant the "total government, not simply President Khatami's administration."
This was in the early 2000's, while the "moderate/reformer" Khatami was "categorically" denying any connection to the Karin A. Meanwhile Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was rising to power at the forefront of the violent Basenji movement with the blessing of the Mullahs.
These people's assessment was naive back then and truly outdated today, and there is absolutely nothing the Bush Administration could have done more to influence what has happened internally in Iran. The U.S. was on the verge of dialoguing with Iran in a more profound way, as the testimony of these people prove.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (elected Aug, 2005), the Mullahs, the Basenji and Iranian Revolutionary Guards who radically changed the dynamic, and thus, history.
Yet these people are attacking the Bush Administration policy in response to this, and Ahmadinejad threatening to wipe Israel off the map.
Finally, when they said, "Now they are afraid of the White House, and watching what they say. But still, they feel they have to speak out."
Oh, puh-leeze! These people are attention mongers on par with Cindy Sheehan. America and the West are facing the very real threat of global nuclear proliferation and weapons in the hands of these apocalyptic Islamists, and the American people are being fed this type of garbage.
·Bush: Threat of World War III if Iran goes nuclear
·Russia backs Iran nuclear rights
AMERICA AT WAR
At Salem the Soldier's Homepage ~
Islam, a Religion of Peace®? Some links... by backhoe
Translated Pre-War IRAQ Documents by jveritas
Mohammed, The Mad Poet Quoted.... by PsyOp
"PLAES DO NOT TOCH THE WAR" by AnnaZ
The Clash of Ideologies - A Review
"...It's time we recognized the nature of the conflict. It's total war and we are all involved. Nobody on our side is exempted because of age, gender, or handicap. The Islamofacists have stolen childhood from the world." [FReeper Retief]
"...That the totalitarian force pitted against freedom wears a religious makes this civil war among mankind all the more difficult to engage. Loving freedom as we do, it seems reprehensible to deliberate against a religion. But this is no ordinary religion as it demands absolute obedience of all to their religion at the cost of freedom itself." [FReeper Backtothestreets]
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