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Headlines : "War on Terror"The U.S.-Iran-Iraq-Israeli-Syrian War
In a White House background briefing, George W. Bush surprised TV news executives with a stark warning about an imminent crisis with Iran, and he presented an alarmist vision of a region-wide explosion. Then, Bush inserted language in his Iraq War speech suggesting cross-border attacks against Iran and Syria and announcing deployment of Patriot missiles. All this comes amid reports that Israel may be preparing for risky air strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Finally, the mainstream U.S. media may be taking the prospect of a wider war seriously.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from Consortium News
At a not-for-quotation pre-speech briefing on Jan. 10, George W. Bush and his top national security aides unnerved network anchors and other senior news executives with suggestions that a major confrontation with Iran is looming.
Commenting about the briefing on MSNBC after Bush’s nationwide address, NBC’s Washington bureau chief Tim Russert said “there’s a strong sense in the upper echelons of the White House that Iran is going to surface relatively quickly as a major issue – in the country and the world – in a very acute way.”
Russert and NBC anchor Brian Williams depicted this White House emphasis on Iran as the biggest surprise from the briefing as Bush stepped into the meeting to speak passionately about why he is determined to prevail in the Middle East.
“The President’s inference was this: that an entire region would blow up from the inside, the core being Iraq, from the inside out,” Williams said, paraphrasing Bush.
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