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By Anne Gearan
The Associated Press
Wednesday 31 January 2007
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Washington - Republican and Democratic senators warned Tuesday against a drift toward war with an emboldened Iran and
suggested the Bush administration was missing a chance to engage its longtime adversary in potentially helpful talks
over next-door Iraq.
"What I think many of us are concerned about is that we stumble into active hostilities with Iran without having
aggressively pursued diplomatic approaches, without the American people understanding exactly what's taking place," Sen.
Barack Obama, D-Ill., told John Negroponte, who is in line to become the nation's No. 2 diplomat as Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice's deputy.
Obama, a candidate for president in 2008, warned during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that senators of
both parties will demand "clarity and transparency in terms of U.S. policy so that we don't repeat some of the mistakes
that have been made in the past," a reference to the faulty intelligence underlying the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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