08/16/12 – Gareth Porter – The Scott Horton Show

by | Aug 16, 2012 | Interviews | 5 comments

Journalist Gareth Porter discusses why Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are bluffing when they threaten a unilateral attack on Iran; how the Bush administration’s hawkish Iran policy advanced – rather than hindered – Iran’s nuclear program; why Netanyahu doesn’t have enough leverage to get President Obama to start a war; and why high-level US policymakers are almost always “bad people with terrible ideas.”

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