Is Another War in the Offing?

I found this staged announcement, from Obama, Brown and Sarkozy, chilling when I watched it live last week. In fact I'd go as far to say the presentation had a sinister aura.

First thought that sprang to mind was 'this is a precursor speech to war with Iran' and I'm not the only person to think so.

Of course there are always other opinions and James Cusick provides one:

Over the next few crucial months, Obama may need to look to Brown as his “global” ally and Brown will be more than happy to take the role as international global statesman as they both focus on the crisis of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

By accident, and certainly not by any choreography, Brown has been handed a global crisis that could transform his last months in office. The crisis centres on a secret Iranian nuclear enrichment plant and demands that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors be given access to the hidden plant at Qom in Iran. In the absence of co-operation by the Iranians, a new regime of sanctions will be imposed with the potential backing of Russia.

The worrying part is that, when questioned, David Miliband immediately refused to rule out the option of military action.

Iain MacWhirter contributed to this subject today too:

Perhaps a small new war might save Gordon’s bacon. The refusal by the foreign secretary, David Miliband, to rule out military action against Iran for developing a second uranium enrichment plant, suggests that Britain is not going to complain too loudly if Israel bombs it, as they did the Osirak plant in Iraq in 1981. There is nothing like heightened international tension to bolster a political leader.

Once I read that when politicians get the taste for war they never stop being warmongers. I do wish I could remember who wrote that because it becomes more believable each day.

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