Bush, and his neocon handlers, have never given up their plan to bomb Iran. It still might happen but it looks like it is less likely. The Europeans won't help. They are keeping their distance from a radioactive U.S. President:
President Bush threatened Iran on Wednesday with more sanctions if it fails to stop enriching uranium and said all options were on the table to thwart Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
Bush, who met German Chancellor Angela Merkel north of Berlin during a week-long tour of Europe, is pressing allies to agree new punitive measures against Iran.
While Europeans have voiced support for such a move, they are also looking past Bush, whose presidency ends in January.
"Both the chancellor and my first choice of course is to solve this diplomatically," Bush told a joint news conference with Merkel.
But he added: "All options are on the table," a reference to the threat of military action to stop Iran's nuclear program, which the West fears is aimed at making atomic bombs. "The message to the Iranian government is very clear," Bush said.
It is ironic that he is talking trash with Iran because he now admits that the same language he used prior to the Iraq war was a mistake:
Bush remains unpopular in western Europe more than five years after he clashed with Germany, France, Russia and others over the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
He told reporters in Meseberg he had no regrets about going to war to oust Saddam Hussein but admitted he could have been smarter in making the case for the U.S.-led invasion.
"I could have used better rhetoric to indicate that one, we tried to exhaust diplomacy in Iraq, and two, that I don't like war," Bush said. "But, no, the decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the right decision."
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