Salon: Rice's promotion of neocon seen as Iran war signal

[WFF]

Greenwald: State Department promotion sends Iran war signal
Mike Sheehan
Published: Monday March 5, 2007

The promotion of a neoconservative to a key position at the U.S. State Department may be yet another signal of impending war with Iran, Salon reports.

"As they have done many times before, neoconservatives, with Iran in their sights, have installed one of their own at State to block any war-avoiding rapprochement," writes Glenn Greewald for Salon.

Last Friday, Eliot Cohen was chosen by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to be new Counselor of the State Department.

"It is not hyperbole to say that Cohen is as extremist a neoconservative and warmonger as it gets," says Greenwald, who quotes a conservative writer's point that Cohen "was an early supporter of the military intervention in Iraq" and opposed negotiations with Iran and Syria.

Greenwald argues that Cohen is even "far more extremist than just that."

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http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/State_Department_promotion_sends_Iran_war_0305.html

[Poiuyt]

1. Dispite what they say, I think that Cheney still runs things in the WH

He's not losing his influence

[Marie26]

2. War-mongering twerp

[magellan]

7. OMG, Hitler as a nerd!

[Supersedeas]

3. - sigh - and Dr. Rice was supposed to be a competent diplomat??

[Dudley_DUright]

4. Here I thought that BushCo wanted to take us back to the days before

the Magna Carta, but apparently this Cohen fool wants to takes us back to the days of the Roman empire.

[walldude]

5. If we attack Iran and impeachment proceedings aren't

started the very next day, I'm moving to Canada.. if they'll have me.

[ShortnFiery]

9. I'm with you ... I'm already scoping out Vancouver. n/t

[struggle4progress]

6. I'm not joking: Cohen wants another world war

World War IV
BY ELIOT A. COHEN
Tuesday, November 20, 2001 12:01 a.m. EST

... Afghanistan constitutes just one front in World War IV, and the battles there just one campaign ... The immediate choice lies before the U.S. government in regard to Iran ... The overthrow of the first theocratic revolutionary Muslim state and its replacement by a moderate or secular government, however, would be no less important a victory in this war than the annihilation of bin Laden ...

... the U.S. should continue to target regimes that sponsor terrorism. Iraq is the obvious candidate, having not only helped al Qaeda, but .. developed weapons of mass destruction ... The Iraqi military is weak, and the consequences of finishing off America's archenemy in the Arab world would reinforce the awe so badly damaged by a decade of cruise missiles flung at empty buildings ...

... The Afghan achievement is remarkable -- within two months to have radically altered the balance of power there, to have effectively destroyed the Taliban state and smashed part of the al Qaeda -- is testimony to what the American military and intelligence communities can do when turned on to a problem. But the Taliban were not the hardest case ...

... this will require something more than the $20 billion a year in defense spending increases over the budget now in the offing ...

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001493


http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001493

[HamdenRice]

8. self delete