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Talk Nation Radio for July 12, 2007

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We speak with Erik Leaver of Foreign Policy in Focus. He co-authored the July 2007 report ‘Just Security’. The report looks at the consequences of failed US policies on global warming, the missile defense system, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan. After documenting these policy failures extending over the past six years FPIF analysts offer suggestions on how US policy can be repaired.

We hear reaction to the passage July 11th of an Amendment from US Senator Joe Lieberman on Iran re US Soldiers in Iraq. What are the implications? Will this be a new vehicle for the right to use in arguing for a military strike against Iran?

And we talk about Wolf Blitzer’s interview July 8th on his CNN evening program when he posed the following question to US Senator Pat Leahy of Vermont: “Senator Leahy, I want you to weigh in on that Iran issue, as well. Are you, like some Democrats, concerned that the Bush administration is thinking of using the military option against Iran because of its nuclear weapons program, if you will?”

What Iranian nuclear weapons program? Even as Blitzer tore into the fine detail in Michael Moore’s film, Sicko, he proceeds to ignore the latest reports from the IAEA currently in Iran. They see Tehran as producing less nuclear material and as of today say Iran has met the nuclear watchdog agency’s requirements for further negotiations.

Eric Leaver comments on news reports about the Middle East from corporate news outlets versus recent items in Inter Press Service on Iraq. –Turkish troops across the border into Iraq, new willingness from Israel’s Olmert to attend talks with Syria. With so much diplomacy and opportunity in the air why is it that the hard political right wing keeps trying to foul the atmosphere with militant rhetoric?

Connecticut peace activist Henry Lowendorf reacts to the passage of Sen. Joe Lieberman’s bill.

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