War cries ringing in Obama's ears

[unhappycamper]

War cries ringing in Obama's ears
By Ali Gharib and Jim Lobe
Dec 1, 2010

WASHINGTON - The leaked reports sent by United States officials abroad to Washington reveal a treacherous playing field for the United States in the Middle East.

While the some of the 219 diplomatic cables publicly released to date - of a reported 251,000 obtained by WikiLeaks, an independent international organization that facilitates leaks and makes documents public - cover a range of countries and issues, a major theme of particular interest to US media was the support by some Arab leaders for a US attack on Iran.

For US President Barack Obama, the now-revealed symphony of war cries could pose challenges to his stated policies toward Iran, which so far have focused on averting a war over Iran's nuclear program by attempting to engage Tehran at the negotiating table while simultaneously pressuring the Islamic Republic with unilateral and multilateral diplomatic and economic sanctions.

The US, along with the four other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany, will meet with a senior Iranian diplomat for the first time in more than a year next week in Geneva, it was announced on Monday.

The cables, drawn from diplomatic meetings in the region between 2006 and early 2010, recorded comments hostile to Iran by high-ranking Arab officials from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Yemen.

[w8liftinglady]

1. i will bet it extends well beyond these...

the Cheney Energy task force
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cheney_Energy_Task_Force

American Enterprise Institute
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Enterprise_Institute

Rendon Group
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rendon_Group

The Project for the New American Century
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Project_for_the_New_American_Century

To name a few...