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The news I'm reading mostly consists of talks between Iran, Russia, the EU, Australia, and the UN. A small minority is Bush chiming in on things. (Not that he isn't considering jumping in if the others don't handle it.)
It'll come down to Russia and how much Mr. Nutball Ahmadinejad and the hard-liners want/need to save face and give up their "right to refine." History shows he can make mint by screwing with Western powers, so he's in a great negotiating position.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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