news items just possibly connected in more ways than meets the eye or ear:
- - -That trail of crumbs through the woods that led to the witch's house wasn't a trail as it was being made, just hope and some good long-range thinking on the part of some scared kids.
U.S., allies to complain to ElBaradei on Iran
The United States and some European allies plan to complain to the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog about his proposal for
Iran to retain some nuclear enrichment activities, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that envoys from the United States and from France, Germany and Britain -- the so-called EU3 -- were expected to visit International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohammed ElBaradei this week and tell him their concern as major powers seek to persuade Tehran to end uranium enrichment.
Reuters 22.May.07
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Iran's secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq
Iran is secretly forging ties with al-Qaida elements and Sunni Arab militias in Iraq in preparation for a summer showdown with coalition forces intended to tip a wavering US Congress into voting for full military withdrawal, US officials say.
Simon Tisdall/Guardian 22.May.07
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Talking about "European" allies or "France" or "Germany" as though they were anything like the relatively sensible Old World nations that opposed the invasion of Iraq by whoever's now trying to finger the big American energy purse for Phase 2 of God's Chosen People's Drive Toward A Mighty New Empire is bogus in so many ways. France and Germany are being "led" by people hand-picked to deliver the yes vote that was denied the US in March 03.
Sarkozy and Merkel are Blair without the cocaine and rockstar confidants, their support of Bush and his masters is why they're there in the first place.
