گزارش مادر جونز از راه اندازی یک گروه تحقیقاتی برای برآورد واکنش افکار عمومی آمریکا به حمله به ایران. سفارش دهندگان این کار عده ای از افراد متنفذ در حزب جمهوریخواه هستند که سابقه حمایت جدی از حمله به عراق را دارند.

  ... The client paying for the focus group session, according to Sonnemark, was Freedom's Watch, a high-powered, well-connected advocacy group that launched a $15 million ad campaign this summer in support of the surge of American troops in Iraq. Among the group's leadership: former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer and Bradley A. Blakeman, a former deputy assistant to President Bush. The focus group session suggests that Freedom's Watch may be looking beyond Iraq and expanding its mission to building support for military action against Iran. ...

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