Who Will Stop The Next War? (Iran)Thu Mar 15, 2007 16:43
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Who Will Stop The Next War? (Iran) [ Post 295314879 ]
Category: News & Opinion (General) Topic: International Affairs
Synopsis: Certainly not the jewish control Government. .
Source: http://amconmag.com
Published: January 1, 2001 Author: Patrick J. Buchanan
http://amconmag.com/2007/2007_02_26/buchanan.html
February 26, 2007 Issue
Copyright © 2006 The American Conservative
Who Will Stop The Next War?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
If Americans sickened by the carnage of Iraq wish to stop an even more disastrous war on Iran, they had best get cracking.
For the “On-to-Baghdad!” boys are back, warning us that the only way to prevent an atom bomb from being detonated in an American city is to attack and destroy Iran’s nuclear sites. And the forces needed to execute an attack are moving into place. Army Gen. John Abizaid has been replaced as CENTCOM commander by Adm. “Fox” Fallon, commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, who knows little about counterinsurgency but a lot about co-ordinating air strikes.
The carrier group Stennis is headed for the Gulf to join the Eisenhower. Minesweepers are headed for the Strait of Hormuz. American fighter-bombers have returned to Incirlik. Iranian officials have been seized in Iraq. Patriot missiles are being moved into Kuwait and Qatar. Why all this firepower—to secure Anbar province and Sadr City?
Bush’s anti-Iran rhetoric has been ratcheted up. Announcing his surge, Bush interjected that Tehran “is providing material support for attacks on American troops. … [W]e will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq.” This threat was followed by shoot-to-kill orders to U.S. troops encountering Iranians aiding the insurgency.
And Democrats are not going to let Bush get to their right. At the Herzliya Conference, John Edwards said that keeping Iran from nuclear weapons “is the greatest challenge of our generation.” “To ensure that Iran never gets nuclear weapons, we need to keep all options on the table. Let me reiterate—all options.”
At AIPAC, Hillary echoed Edwards: “In dealing with this threat … no option can be taken off the table. … We need to use every tool about our disposal including … the threat and use of military force.”
To Mitt Romney, this was wimpish. For Hillary had said she favors “engagement” with Iran. Roared Romney to Hill Republicans, “[W]e don’t need a listening tour about Iran. … Someone who wants to engage Iran displays a troubling timidity toward a terrible threat of a nuclear Iran.”
Anybody think that Giuliani and McCain will let Edwards, Hillary, or Mitt be more menacing toward Tehran than they?
Consider the correlation of forces behind a new war.
If Bush goes home with Iran’s nuclear program not shut down, his legacy will be Iraq and a failed presidency. The Bush Doctrine—no nukes in rogue states—will have been defied by Pyongyang and Tehran.
Israel wants Iran attacked yesterday. The neocons need a new war to make America forget the disaster that they wrought in Iraq. Democratic candidates must be seen as hawkish as Giuliani and McCain. And the deadline for Iran to comply with UN Security Council directives to halt its enrichment of uranium is Feb. 23. What then is holding us back from war?
It is the realization, even on the part of the noisiest hawks, that war on Iran could precipitate a disaster worse than defeat in Iraq. A Shia uprising against U.S. troops could turn the Green Zone into Dien Bien Phu. Attacks on tankers and pipelines could send oil to $200 a barrel. America would have no international support and would receive virtually universal condemnation.
And like the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, bombing Iran could unite Iranians behind their rulers. Shia insurgencies could be ignited against Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. Hezbollah could bring down the Lebanese government and attack Americans in the Middle East and perhaps here in the United States.
And what would an attack accomplish besides setting back an Iranian nuclear-enrichment program that by most reports is a bust?
What is the threat? Iran has no missiles that can reach us, no atom bombs. Though the Mullahs have been in power 27 years, they have yet to launch their first war. The war they fought was in self-defense. They can no more want a Sunni-Shia regional war than we, for they would be in the isolated minority. They want the Taliban kept out of Kabul and Iraq to remain united under a Shia majority, as do we.
It is said that we cannot negotiate with men responsible for the Khobar Towers. But Bush negotiated with Muammar al-Gaddafi, who was responsible for Pan Am 103, and Gaddafi agreed to forego nuclear weapons. Sanctions were lifted and relations restored.
If FDR can talk to Stalin, and Nixon to Mao, and Bush to the North Vietnamese (who tortured John McCain), why can’t we talk to Mullahs who held 52 Americans hostage for a year?
Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) has introduced a resolution declaring that in the absence of an imminent threat or an attack upon us from Iran, President Bush has no authority to attack Iran.
Next step: get Chuck Hagel and Jim Webb to sign on.
February 26, 2007 Issue
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Shamgar writes: "Certainly not the jewish control Government. . .
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What's Good for Halliburton is Good for ... Dubai
We--and members of Congress, if they still remember how to do their job--ought to be asking whether Halliburton's move to Dubai has anything to do with anticipated business should Cheney get his way and the U.S. attacks Iran this spring. Since such a war would inevitably include the destruction of much of Iran's state-owned oil industry, it would represent a huge new business opportunity for Halliburton, which first and foremost is an oil-services company.
Posted Mar 14, 2007 09:59 AM PST
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff03132007.html
Israel, U.S. storm out of UN nuclear forum
The Israel and U.S. delegations walked out of the United Nations' disarmament forum in Geneva, Switzerland yesterday after Iran said Israel was the "real source of nuclear danger in the Middle East" and had a "dark record of crimes."
Posted Mar 14, 2007 09:12 AM PST
Category: ISRAEL
All Mottaki did was to tell the truth.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/837188.html
Dead Russian Spy was israeli Double Agent
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/153
Category: ISRAELI SPYING
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/archives/cat_israeli_spying.html
Forget Impeachment: Grab The Tar And Feathers
http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20070313.html
HOW ISRAEL CONTROLS AMERICA
http://www.rense.com/Datapages/howiz.htm
Re: New Iran military strike warning [ To: Kudzu | Post 295334672, reply to 295334659 ] (Score: 2)
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well, now that halliburton is moving from texas to dubai, i guess we can assume that the persian gulf is due to become the israeli gulf pretty soon now, huh?
so once the pretext is staged that will get the draft cranked up again, we'll be off to the races again.... okay! and halliburton will not be in such great danger of being tarred and feathered on the streets of houston once things go completely to shit.
i spose that the kbr's concentration camps ---remember kbr--- the guys building the american concentration camps?--- can be administered just as well from dubai as from houston.
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CONTIGENCY PLANS(Raison D 'Etre)
PRETEXT FOR WAR ON IRAN...
THE CABAL PLAN TO NUKE IRAN-CONPLAN8022
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