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Is the U.S. planning to attack Iran?
07/02/08 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Iran, War, Foreign Policy
Welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up: In the midst of rising acrimony, we’ll talk about the prospects for a U.S. attack on Iran.
But first some listener comments. Listeners called in with these comments on John McCain’s military record, Michael Parenti’s speech last Thursday on these airwaves and yesterday’s interview about the values Thomas Jefferson believed in.
Earlier today officials from Iran and the United States traded tough words as indications increased that the U...
Be the first to commentMcCain campaign takes aim at Obama listen
06/04/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: John McCain, Barack Obama, AIPAC, 2008 election, Iran, Joe Lieberman
The campaign of Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, responded to Senator Barack Obama’s speech to AIPAC on a conference call today.
Connecticut Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, who was the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 2000, said there was a disconnect in what Obama said about Iran on Wednesday compared to things he has said or done earlier in the campaign or in the Senate.
“I was troubled earlier in the year, during the campaign season when Sen...
Be the first to commentControversial pastors and their candidates
05/08/08 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Iran, end-times, WWIII, 2008 election, Barack Obama, Religion
The controversy over Rev. Jeremiah Wright's controversial soundbites has raged for months. Today WMNF played soundbites from two conservative Christian ministers, both of whom back Sen. John McCain for president.
Are their comments also worthy of national debate? Read and watch the comments and then comment.
[John Hagee](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04rich.h...
Be the first to commentBush doesn't believe Iran nuke report
01/14/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Iran, Israel, nuclear weapons, National Intelligence Estimate (NIE)
Newsweek magazine is reporting that President George Bush in discussions last week with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert all but disowned the National Intelligence Estimate released last month that says that Iran halted its nuclear program back in 2003.
An anonymous "senior administration official" tells Newsweek that Bush told the Israelis that he "can’t control what the intelligence community says, but that the conclusions in the NIE don’t reflect his own views.”
The magazine r...
Be the first to commentPulitzer Prize winning reporter on nuclear arms listen
12/11/07 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Iran, nuclear weapons
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today called a U.S. intelligence report concluding Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program four years ago a "step forward." The comments marked a change from Ahmadinejad's usually harsh anti-Western rhetoric.
Although Iran denies it ever had such a program, Ahmadinejad told reporters that an "entirely different" situation between the two countries could be created if more steps like the intelligence report followed.
Iran has said its nuclear pro...
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