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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 04:25 AM
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$75 million to promote democracy in Iran, yet, Bush sets out to subvert it
‘Bush to campaign against Iran's religious leaders’

Reuters
Monday, March 13, 2006
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=64305

Washington, March 13: The Bush administration intends to mount a campaign against Tehran's religious leaders in its efforts to build international pressure against Iran's nuclear program, reported the Washington Post on Monday.

Board members of Stanford University's Hoover Institution, who met two weeks ago with President George W Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, told the Post they had the impression that the administration had shifted to a more robust policy against the Tehran government.

"The message that we received is that they are in favour of separating the Iranian people from the regime," said Esmail Amid-Hozour, an Iranian American businessman, who serves on the Hoover board.

Undersecretary of State R Nicholas Burns told the Post that the department will also add staff in Dubai, which is part of the United Arab Emirates, as well as at other embassies in the vicinity of Iran, all assigned to watch Tehran. He called the new Dubai outpost the "21st century equivalent" of the Riga station in Latvia that monitored the Soviet Union in the 1930s when the United States had no embassy in Moscow.


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Sensitivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 04:37 AM
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1. A Joke, right. $75 mill is like 1 wheel barrow being doled to Halliburton
buddies each every day in Iraq.
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 08:51 AM
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4. The significance is the Iran regime change offices they're setting up
the money is just a tag to indicate the official push to subvert Iran's democracy under the guise of encouraging it.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 04:38 AM
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2. No No you misunderstand
This money is to be spent to promote leaders willing to take orders from Bush.
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wake.up.america Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 04:48 AM
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3. Malaise - nice way of putting it.
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