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To: tejek who wrote (269978)	1/25/2006 4:41:06 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570977

re: If the article in the link below is true, then yes, in terms of Iran, it does look like the US did most of the provoking I see no reason not to believe the guy, he has very good credentials and worked with the Bush admin during the period in question. brookings.edu Flynt Leverett, Middle East Expert and Former Administration Official, Joins Brookings Saban Center as Visiting Fellow -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Flynt Leverett , Foreign Policy Studies, 202/797-4389 Colin Johnson , Chief Media Relations Officer, 202/797-6310 Washington, DC (May 20, 2003) — Flynt Leverett, a former National Security Council adviser on the Middle East, has joined the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution as a visiting fellow. His research will focus on the politics of Syria and the Levant and Syria's role in the war on terrorism and in the Middle East peace process. "Flynt's extraordinary expertise and distinguished career in government service make him a valuable addition to the Saban Center," said Ambassador Martin S. Indyk, director of the Saban Center and a senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings. "We expect his work at the Center to make an important contribution to the debate over U.S. relations with Syria—one of the most challenging Middle East issues for American policymakers today." Leverett was the senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council from March 2002 to March 2003. He was involved in developing President Bush's approach to promoting Israeli-Palestinian peace, and advised the president and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice on relations with Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Prior to joining the National Security Council, Leverett was a Middle East and counterterrorism expert on the State Department's Policy Planning Staff. Before that he was the senior CIA analyst on Syria and Middle East affairs. Leverett holds a Ph.D. in politics and an M.A. in politics from Princeton University. He earned his B.A from Texas Christian University in 1978.

To: tejek who wrote (269978)	1/27/2006 3:17:44 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570977

There's a lot of truth in that article. After 9/11, I also was a little surprised to see that Iran was making symptathetic gestures to the US and was even more suprised when Bush didn't take any one of the many openings that the Iranians gave us to pursue at least a thawing of relations. Then with the axis of evil speech, he essentially declared war on Iran. That and all of the other events in the Middle East, and the election of Ahmenedijad, pretty much ended any possibilities of a thaw any time soon with Iran. So I agree with much that is in that article and will openly say, as I have always said, that Bush doesn't have a diplomatic bone in his body, which is why this country is disliked by every other country except the UK and Israel at this moment in our history. Having said all that, I'm not willing to let Iran get a nuclear bomb, just because we have an idiot for a President. If the price for Bush being inept at diplomacy leads to a need to bomb Iran to ensure they don't get the nukes, then so be it. It's a tragedy because there were multiple diplomatic openings that Bush scuttled, but pretending that we can let Iran get nukes is compounding Bush's mistakes by an order of magnitude.