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02-06-2010, 06:11 PM #1
Lessons of Iraq ignored, target is now Iran
The lessons of Iraq have been ignored. The target is now Iran
Seumas Milne
guardian.co.uk
3 February 2010
The US military buildup in the Gulf and Blair’s promotion of war against Tehran are a warning of yet another catastrophe.
We were Â*supposed to have learned the lessons of the Iraq war. That’s what Britain’s Â*Chilcot inquiry is meant to be all about. But the signs from the Middle East are that it could be happening all over again. The US is Â*escalating the military build-up in the Gulf, officials revealed this week, boosting its naval presence and supplying tens of billions of dollars’ worth of new weapons systems to allied Arab states.
The target is of course Iran. Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain are all taking deliveries of Patriot missile batteries. In Saudi Arabia, Washington is sponsoring a 30,000-strong force to protect oil installations and ports. The UAE alone has bought 80 F16 fighters, and General Petraeus, the US commander, claims it could now “take out the entire Iranian airforceâ€
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