Reply #55: Glenn Greenwald "A new excerpt from the book's Iran chapter --

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regarding the various factions which have worked together to push the President towards Middle East militarism generally, and a confrontation with Iran specifically -- is available today here."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/06/26/tragic_legacy/index.html



---The excerpt does not appear on Salon, only at the link below.---

A Confederation of War-Seeking Factions

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/greenwald.php?articleid=11193

by Glenn Greenwald

"This is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency, released today.

Why would the president, in the midst of substantial and growing cooperation with the Iranians, suddenly decree Iran in 2002 to be part of an axis of evil, and all but declare Iran an enemy on whom war must inevitably be waged? Numerous and disparate factions surrounding the president each desired, albeit for different reasons and with different motives, hostility and conflict with Iran. Those factions perceive that belligerence toward Iran, rather than a negotiated peace, would promote their respective agendas. And each was able to depict Iran in the Manichean terms that would ensure that the president would see Iran as an implacable foe he was duty-bound to defeat."