| The price of oil has reached more than eighty | | | | intelligence sources, reported that the |
| dollars a barrel for the first time during | | | | Administration has concluded that sanctions |
| the last week. There is a buildup of British | | | | against Iran in the United Nations are dead. |
| and American forces near the Iranian border. | | | | It states that the Bush Administration plans |
| The Pentagon has announced the building of a | | | | to prepare America for war with Iran over the |
| US base in Iraq near the border with Iran. | | | | next several months. The Telegraph reports : |
| The navel buildup near Iran continues. The | | | | " In a chilling scenario of how war might |
| French Government has escalated its public | | | | come, a senior intelligence officer warned |
| rhetoric about a war with Iran. All signs | | | | that public denunciation of Iranian meddling |
| continue to point to an escalating world | | | | in Iraq - arming and training militants - |
| crisis between the West and Iran. | | | | would lead to cross border raids on Iranian |
| | | | training camps and bomb factories. A prime |
| Iranian activity concerning Iraq was strongly | | | | target would be the Fajr base run by the |
| condemned last week by General Petraeus and | | | | Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Force in |
| Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, in front of | | | | southern Iran, where Western intelligence |
| Congress. General Petraeus spoke of a "proxy | | | | agencies say Armour-piercing projectiles used |
| war" that Iran was fighting in Iraq, while | | | | against British and US troops are |
| Ambassador Crocker accused the Iranian | | | | manufactured. Under the theory - which is |
| government of "providing lethal capabilities | | | | gaining credence in Washington security |
| to the enemies of the Iraqi state"."It is | | | | circles - US action would provoke a major |
| increasingly apparent," said Petraeus, "that | | | | Iranian response, perhaps in the form of |
| Iran, through the use of the Quds Force, | | | | moves to cut off Gulf oil supplies, providing |
| seeks to turn the Iraqi Special Groups into a | | | | a trigger for air strikes against Iran's |
| Hezbollah-like force to serve its interests | | | | nuclear facilities and even its armed |
| and fight a proxy war against the Iraqi state | | | | forces." |
| and coalition forces in Iraq." In an | | | | |
| interview after his appearance before a | | | | Over the last several months, public pressure |
| congressional panel, General Petraeus | | | | is growing in the United States for |
| strongly implied that it would soon be | | | | meaningful troop withdrawals from Iraq. The |
| necessary to obtain authorization to take | | | | American public is also growing increasingly |
| action against Iran within its own borders, | | | | restless about the lack of progress by the |
| rather than just inside Iraq. "There is a | | | | government of Nouri al- Maliki. In a |
| pretty hard look ongoing at that particular | | | | September, 2007 Gallup public opinion poll, a |
| situation.", he said. | | | | record 60% say the United States should set a |
| | | | timetable to withdraw forces and stick to |
| The only hope to avoid war between Iran and | | | | that timetable regardless of what is going on |
| the West over Iran's ongoing nuclear | | | | in the country. |
| development program appears to be the United | | | | |
| Nations. The Iranian crisis is on the | | | | The remaining time for this Administration to |
| upcoming United Nations agenda and possible | | | | govern is beginning to grow short. The start |
| new sanctions against Iran will be discussed | | | | of the 2008 Presidential elections herald the |
| on September 21. | | | | conclusion of George Bush's term in office. |
| | | | The prospect of a historic strategic military |
| However, the option of new sanctions against | | | | mistake by invading Iraq. A humanitarian |
| Iran appears to be diminishing when one | | | | crisis in the country when our troops |
| considers this recent report from Fox news : | | | | withdraw. A Middle East dominated by an Iran |
| "Germany - a pivotal player among three | | | | with nuclear weapons. The price of a barrel |
| European nations to rein in Iran's nuclear | | | | of oil throughout the world being held |
| program over the last two-and-a-half years | | | | hostage by a radical regime in Tehran. These |
| through a mixture of diplomacy and sanctions | | | | outcomes are not what George Bush had in mind |
| supported by the United States - notified its | | | | for the legacy of his Presidency. He is going |
| allies last week that the government of | | | | to have to take military action against Iran |
| Chancellor Angela Merkel refuses to support | | | | before he leaves office. It looks like the |
| the imposition of any further sanctions | | | | bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities may be |
| against Iran that could be imposed by the | | | | only several months away. This could become a |
| U.N. Security Council. The announcement was | | | | very important world event in early 2008. |
| made at a meeting in Berlin that brought | | | | |
| German officials together with Iran desk | | | | During the next several months, the Bush |
| officers from the five member states of the | | | | Administration will likely change the |
| Security Council. It stunned the room and | | | | conversation in America from the inept Iraqi |
| left most Bush administration principals | | | | government of Nouri al- Maliki to the dangers |
| concluding that sanctions are dead." China | | | | posed to Iraq and America by the government |
| and Russia are already opposed to any | | | | of Iran. An escalating crisis between Iran |
| meaningful sanctions concerning Iraq. | | | | and the West will likely make this winter a |
| | | | long season of conflict. |
| The British newspaper, The Telegraph, citing | | | | |