Jeffords, the conspiracy theorist

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U.S. Sen. Jim Jeffords, the Vermont Independent, may face a clear field right now in a 2006 re-election bid, but his March 22 performance on Vermont Public Radio's Switchboard program raised a few eyebrows.

For starters, Jeffords, who opposes the war in Iraq, predicted the Bush administration would start a war in Iran to help elect a third member of the Bush clan to the White House.

<font color="red"> "I think it was all done to get oil,"</font> Jeffords said of invading Iraq.<font color="red"> "And the loss of life that we had, and the cost of it, was to me just a re-election move, and they're going to try to live off it. Probably start another war, wouldn't be surprised, next year. Probably in Iran."</font>

"Do you think that's likely?" VPR host Bob Kinzel asked.

<font color="red"> "I probably shouldn't even talk on it, I just feel so bitter about the thinking that's gone on behind them, and the reasons they go to war and went to war," </font>Jeffords replied.<font color="red"> "But I feel very strongly that they are looking ahead, and that there will be an opportunity to go into Iran and try to get their son elected president. I don't know, but you do it each time they (are) going to have a new president. I'm very, very </font>(Jeffords chuckles).<font color="red"> Oh, well, I better be quiet." </font>


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