Historian and journalist Gareth Porter discusses Moqtada al Sadr’s outreach to the Sunnis and the Bush administrations insistence in backing the Iran factions instead and Dick Cheney’s determination to have a war with Iran whether Bush wants one or not.

MP3 here.

Gareth Porter is a historian. His latest book is Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam (University of California Press).