War on Terror

From Bush's State of the Union address Tuesday night:

BUSH: Democracies in the Middle East will not look like our own, because they will reflect the traditions of their own citizens. Yet liberty is the future of every nation in the Middle East, because liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.

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The same is true of Iran, a nation now held hostage by a small clerical elite that is isolating and repressing its people. The regime in that country sponsors terrorists in the Palestinian territories and in Lebanon, and that must come to an end.

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The Iranian government is defying the world with its nuclear ambitions, and the nations of the world must not permit the Iranian regime to gain nuclear weapons.

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BUSH: America will continue to rally the world to confront these threats. And, tonight, let me speak directly to the citizens of Iran: America respects you and we respect your country. We respect your right to choose your own future and win your own freedom. And our nation hopes one day to be the closest of friends with a free and democratic Iran.

Today My Yahoo page says, "Iran is world's top sponsor of terrorism: Rumsfeld." Three guesses where this is headed.

Read Stephen Kinzer's All the Shah's Men to find out how and when the U.S. and Britain sponsored terror in Iran.