Video (5min 14sec): McCain at AIPAC: Drumbeats of War? (1 of 2). Aijaz Ahmad, senior news analyst of The Real News, takes a point by point look at Republican presidential candidate John McCain's speech to AIPAC. "Well, it's very significant that Senator McCain, the presumptive presidential candidate for the Republicans, should be the star opening speaker at the national conference of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, known as AIPAC.
"But there's also a larger regional and global context which was spelled out in an article published last friday by Joschka Fischer, who was the German Foreign Minister at the time of the Invasion of Iraq in 2003. Fischer says that unless Iran agrees immediately to all the conditions that are being made of it on the nuclear fuel enrichment issue, it faces the possibility of an imminent military attack from Isreal. Fischer then goes on to say that the attack in imminent because Israel can be sure of it's window of opportunity only while Bush is still in office...."
