
<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The War party in the US is pressing our unprincipled president to carry out his preference for surgical strikes against Iran:<div><br></div><div><i><<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/iran-and-israel-should-take-obama-at-his-word-on-the-nuclear-question/248089/">http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/iran-and-israel-should-take-obama-at-his-word-on-the-nuclear-question/248089/</a>>.<br></i><div><br></div><div>("In an interview with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune published September 26 [2004], Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama said he would favor the use of 'surgical' missile strikes against Iran if it failed to bow to Washington’s demand that it eliminate its nuclear energy program.") </div><div><div><br></div><div>We can of course hope that Obama will betray this promise as well. --CGE </div></div></div></body></html>