{"id":1118,"date":"2008-10-20T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2012-01-28T00:43:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T00:43:26","slug":"mcgovern-oorlog-tegen-iran-afgelast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/2008\/10\/20\/mcgovern-oorlog-tegen-iran-afgelast\/","title":{"rendered":">McGovern: Oorlog tegen Iran afgelast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Voormalig CIA-officier en huidig politiek activist <a href=\"http:\/\/johnito.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/mcgovern-ex-cia-analist-spoor.html\">Ray McGover<\/a>n merkt op dat de kans op een <a href=\"http:\/\/johnito.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/isral-wilde-iran-cht-aanvallen.html\">Isra\u00eblisch<\/a>\/Amerikaanse aanval op Iran is afgenomen. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>En dat de redactie van de<a href=\"http:\/\/pqasb.pqarchiver.com\/washingtonpost\/access\/1559583531.html?dids=1559583531:1559583531&amp;FMT=FT&amp;FMTS=ABS:FT&amp;fmac=c8102de990067c98126848cbc18da8a6&amp;date=Sep+23%2C+2008&amp;author=Anonymous&amp;desc=Iran+Slips+Away%3B+Even+as+its+nuclear+program+accelerates%2C++the+impetus+to+stop+it+loses+steam.\"> Washington Post<\/a> nauwelijks moeite doet om te verhullen  daarover teleurgesteld te zijn. Ondanks dat de gezamenlijke Amerikaanse inlichtingendiensten in de National Intelligence Estimate (<a href=\"http:\/\/johnito.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/keith-olbermann-msnbc-over-het-nie.html\">NIE<\/a>) duidelijk maakte dat Iran al minstens sinds 2003 niet meer naar kernwapens streeft.<\/p>\n<p>De belangrijkste reden voor de verminderde kans op een aanval: de <a href=\"http:\/\/johnito.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/12-jarig-amerikaans-meisje-en-tante.html\">wederopstanding van Rusland<\/a> als wereldmacht. Plus de oppositie binnen de eigen militaire rangen (bijv. <a href=\"http:\/\/johnito.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/de-man-die-het-verschil-maakte-tussen.html\">Admiraal Fallon<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Een mogelijke reden om alsnog Iran aan te vallen: een<a href=\"http:\/\/johnito.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/iraanse-revolutionaire-garde-in-hoogste.html\"> verkiezingsnederlaag voor John McCain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"article_main_text\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"article_main_text\">And there is still more incentive for Bush and Cheney to  look with favor on an attack on Iran,  a very personal incentive. <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"article_main_text\">It is a safe bet that if John McCain loses, Bush and Cheney and others will be plagued by various legal actions against them for the war crimes for which they are clearly responsible. Such would also be possible under a President McCain but much less likely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"article_main_text\">But attacking Iran would be crazy, you say. Not for nothing have many of the folks around Bush and Cheney been referred to as \u201cthe crazies\u201d since the early 1980s. Some are still there \u2013 and they have proven again and again that they <em>do<\/em> things.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"article_main_text\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2008\/101808a.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Lees het artikel van McGovern<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">UPDATE: <\/span>Ook vanuit Isra\u00ebl komen nu geluiden dat een <a href=\"http:\/\/zaplog.nl\/zaplog\/article\/aanval_israel_op_iran_van_de_baan\">aanval van de baan<\/a> is.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ik denk dat het niet geheel onterecht is om ons af te vragen hoe dit zou zijn verlopen als <a href=\"http:\/\/whatreallyhappened.com\/taxonomy\/term\/83\">bloggers <\/a>wereldwijd niet de <a href=\"http:\/\/johnito.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/geen-tweede-irak-in-iran-build-up-to.html\">aandacht<\/a> hadden blijven <a href=\"http:\/\/johnito.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Iran\">vestigen<\/a> op de leugenachtige <a href=\"http:\/\/johnitosdigest.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Iran\">oorlogspolitiek <\/a>van het Cheney\/Bush-kamp.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>Tot slot: IAEA-baas El Baradei: &#8220;Iran ver weg van nucleair wapen&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vykGj0-J4no&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vykGj0-J4no&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application\/rss+xml\" title=\"RSS\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/Johnito\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>Voormalig CIA-officier en huidig politiek activist Ray McGovern merkt op dat de kans op een Isra\u00eblisch\/Amerikaanse aanval op Iran is afgenomen. En dat de redactie van de Washington Post nauwelijks moeite doet om te verhullen daarover teleurgesteld te zijn. Ondanks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/2008\/10\/20\/mcgovern-oorlog-tegen-iran-afgelast\/\">Lees verder <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[699,311,1028,228,245,26,867,1,430,1029,340],"tags":[1906],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admiraal-william-fallon","category-cia","category-crazies","category-iran","category-israel","category-neocons","category-nie","category-politics","category-ray-mcgovern","category-washington-post","category-yellowcake","tag-politiek-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnito.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}