Is Iran Really a Threat?
Counterpunch / Counterpunch
05-May-2010 (2 comments)

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said publicly that Iran “doesn’t
directly threaten the United States.” Her momentary lapse came while
answering a question at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar, on
Feb. 14.

Fortunately for her, most of her Fawning Corporate Media (FCM)
fellow travelers must have been either jet-lagged or sunning themselves
poolside when she made her unusual admission.

And those who were present did Clinton the favor of disappearing her
gaffe and ignoring its significance. (All one happy traveling family,
you know.)

But she said it: it’s on the State Department Web site. Those who
had been poolside could even have read the text after showering. They
might have recognized a real story there — but, granted, it was one so
off-message that it would probably not we welcomed by editors back home.

In a rambling comment, Clinton had lamented that, despite President
Barack Obama’s reaching out to the Iranian leaders, he had elicited no
sign they were willing to engage:

“Part of the goal — not the only goal, but part of the goal —
that we were pursuing was to try to influence the Iranian decision
regarding whether or not to pursue a nuclear weapon. And, as I said in
my speech, you know, the evidence is accumulating that that >>>

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