US denies being on warpath with Iran

White House spokesman Tony Fratto has denied that there are any parallels between the build up to the Iraq war and the present situation regarding Iran.

Asked whether the United States was on course for armed conflict with Iran over its suspect nuclear program and alleged interference in Iraq, Fratto replied: "I think we're very, very hopeful that it won't."

"We are absolutely committed to a diplomatic process. We would never take options off the table, but the diplomatic process is what we want to move forward with," he said, calling it "unwise" to rule out the use of force.

"I don't think there are any parallels to draw at all."

Hmm, lets see...

Bush recently stated that a nuclear Iran would lead to "World War Three" and a "nuclear holocaust" just as before the war with Iraq he predicted that the final warning of Iraq's intentions might come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Indeed, Dick Cheney recently warned Iran that it would face "serious consequences" if it fails to stop enriching uranium. The phrase "serious consequences" was, of course, the wording used in UN res 1441 which the United States claimed gave it the right to attack Iraq - despite the fact that the resolution did not contain the more usual wording authorising the use of military force, "all necessary means".

So Bush is once again foreseeing a possible nuclear holocaust unless the Iranians are prevented from obtaining a weapon which they insist that they do not want and Cheney is using the very wording that the US used to justify it's illegal invasion of Iraq.

And Fratto states that there aren't "any parallels to draw at all"....

Of course there aren't Tony. Where do people get these notions?

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