Mood: special
Topic: peace
Two big stories (below) running in the international press this last 6 weeks call up an old article about the original Syriana man we came across trawling a dusty pile of press (copy extracted below, with cute letter in The Australian). It appears W Bush can't rationally convince of a case to attack Iran over WMD after the December intel report and he now is moving to a more business minded model of selling weaponry into a proxy army:
U.S. Says Iran Ended Atomic Arms Work - New York Times 3 Dec 2007
Stephen Crowley/The New York TimesBush says committed to [US$20B] Saudi arms deal | Reuters 14 Jan 2008
Posted by editor
at 9:26 AM EADT
Updated: Thursday, 17 January 2008 11:58 AM EADT