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War Party's saber rattling Posted: June 2, 2003 Did we, to borrow Churchill's phrase, kill the wrong pig? So it would appear. For the War Party is already beating the drums for war on Iran, using the identical arguments they gave us for going after Saddam Hussein – i.e, the ayatollahs are backing al-Qaida and Iran is developing weapons of mass destruction. And, on both counts, as this column has long argued, the case against Iran as a supporter of Islamic terror and seeker after the bomb was always stronger than the case against Saddam. The War Party's problem is...

ADMINISTRATION SETS ITS SIGHTS ON NEXT MIDDLE EAST TARGET WASHINGTON -- If you think the steps leading to the war in Iraq marked a historically strange pathway for America, take a look today at the developing indicators of the next involvement, in Iran. Already we can see the opening of a new act in the administration's grand imperial drama. The players' voices reverberated all week in the nation's capital, as the charges of support for al-Qaida and the building of weapons of mass destruction were leveled not at Iraq (where those charges so far have turned out to be baseless),...