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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , hummingbird   
    writes   
   >On Sat, 6 May 2006 11:49:21 +0100  'banana'   
   >posted this onto uk.politics.misc:   
   >   
   >>The script that Jack Straw read a month ago, calling the idea of a US   
   >>nuclear attack on Iran "nuts" (presumably passed to him by Foreign   
   >>Office/MI6 officials, for reasons including the manipulation of opinion   
   >>in continental Europe, and possibly also in Arabia, as well as in the   
   >>UK)...didn't go down well at the US White House...   
   >   
   >It makes me wonder what role Condo Rice played in Straw's sacking.   
   >Maybe she was alarmed at his views during her recent visit!   
   >   
   >>...according to the following piece in a pro-regime British rag.   
   >>   
   >>Ewen MacAskill suggests that Straw was sacked because of US displeasure   
   >>after he said that a nuclear attack on Iran wasn't thinkable.   
   >>   
   >>Meanwhile, CIA chief Porter Goss 'resigns' for 'unexplained' reasons.   
   >   
   >Are you thinking that Goss was not willing to provide Bush with the   
   >necessary manufactured CIA intel to justify military attacks?   
      
   Yes - that could well be the case. Parts of the CIA have been subject to   
   'neocon'/pro-Zionist pressure that they have not taken kindly to.   
      
   I wonder whether Jonathan Pollard will be released under the new   
   director?   
      
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   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
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