<![CDATA[If 2003 was a Missed Opportunity, It's a Mistake to Refuse to Talk to Iran Now]]>

1.0 link 41391 <![CDATA[If 2003 was a Missed Opportunity, It's a Mistake to Refuse to Talk to Iran Now]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-weisbrot-and-robert-naiman/if-2003-was-a-missed-oppo_b_41391.html Ladies and Gentlemen, I rise in defense of Condoleezza Rice.

It's great that the Bush Administration's failure to respond to Iran's peace offer of 2003 is again in the news, thanks to the Leverett affair and Glenn Kessler's reporting in the Washington Post.

But 99% of the press, expert opinion, blogging, and commenting on this that I have seen has missed the essential point.

The essential point is not that Condoleezza Rice may have misled Congress about what...

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