Rep. Doggett: Congress must Respond to the Propaganda Surge

Juan Cole 09/15/2007

Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) on Iraq:

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International Atomic Energy head Mohammad Elbaradei walked out of a meeting where he felt a Portuguese diplomat’s speech was insufficiently supportive of his call for new inspections in Iran.

On the other hand, Elbaradei has been critical of the US for pushing confrontation with Tehran.

Despite Elbaradei’s findings that no nuclear material had been diverted from Iran’s civilian nuclear energy research program ( a civilian program is legal under the NPT), Bush keeps insisting that Iran is trying to get a nuclear bomb.

[Sorry for the earlier old link. Google.news software glitch.]

At the Napoleon’s Egypt blog: French complaints at loneliness and setbacks in Egypt.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page