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When President Bush and his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,

finally took to the U.N. Rostrum on Tuesday, confrontation was in the air.

But what might have once played as a battle royale, this bout had more of the tone of a warm-up match,

a warm-up for something much larger.

Time magazine reported this week that the Pentagon is actively reviewing war plans, and with the International Atomic Energy Agency disputing the threat assessments coming out

of Washington, the skirmish also has the eerie tone of something all too familiar.

This week, reporters John Walcott and Warren Strobel of

McClatchy newspapers reported that some intelligence officials fear a replay of the mistakes in the

lead-up to the Iraq War. I asked Strobel if journalists were feeling deja vu as well. I think the answer is yes.

The colleagues that I have talked to and myself and my editors at

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