Bomb Iran? What's to Stop us? By Ray Mcgovern

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June 22, 2008 12:08 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Bomb Iran? What's to Stop Us?

It's crazy, but it's coming soon - from the same folks who brought us Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20140.htm

By Ray McGovern

20/06/08 "ICH" -- - Unlike the attack on Iraq five years ago, to deal with Iran there need be no massing of troops. And, with the propaganda buildup already well under way, there need be little, if any, forewarning before shock and awe and pox - in the form of air and missile attacks - begin.

This time it will be largely the Air Force's show, punctuated by missile and air strikes by the Navy. Israeli-American agreement has now been reached at the highest level; the armed forces planners, plotters and pilots are working out the details.

Emerging from a 90-minute White House meeting with President George W. Bush on June 4, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the two leaders were of one mind:

"We reached agreement on the need to take care of the Iranian threat. I left with a lot less question marks [than] I had entered with regarding the means, the timetable restrictions, and American resoluteness to deal with the problem. George Bush understands the severity of the Iranian threat and the need to vanquish it, and intends to act on that matter before the end of his term in the White House."

Does that sound like a man concerned that Bush is just bluff and bluster?

A member of Olmert's delegation noted that same day that the two countries had agreed to cooperate in case of an attack by Iran, and that "the meetings focused on ‘operational matters' pertaining to the Iranian threat." So bring ‘em on!

A show of hands please. How many believe Iran is about to attack the U.S. or Israel?

You say you missed Olmert's account of what Bush has undertaken to do? So did I. We are indebted to intrepid journalist Chris Hedges for including the quote in his article of June 8, "The Iran Trap."

 

We can perhaps be excused for missing Olmert’s confident words about “Israel’s best friend” that week. Your attention – like mine – may have been riveted on the June 5 release of the findings of the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding administration misrepresentations of pre-Iraq-war intelligence – the so-called “Phase II” investigation (also known, irreverently, as the “Waiting-for-Godot Study”).

Better late than never, I suppose.

Oversight?

Yet I found myself thinking: It took them five years, and that is what passes for oversight? Yes, the president and vice president and their courtiers lied us into war. And now a bipartisan report could assert that fact formally; and committee chair Jay Rockefeller could sum it up succinctly:

“In making the case for war, the administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when in reality it was unsubstantiated, contradicted, or even non-existent. As a result, the American people were led to believe that the threat from Iraq was much greater than actually existed.”

But as I listened to Senator Rockefeller, I had this sinking feeling that in five or six years time, those of us still around will be listening to a very similar post mortem looking back on an even more disastrous attack on Iran……

 

Get the entire article here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20140.htm

June 22, 2008 12:19 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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There is no doubt that we need to attack Iran and very soon. We need to do it with a plan or face massive backlash from Europe, Hollywood and the Liberal Drive-By media along with the U.N. who is this week stepping up to the plate to defend the rogue nation.

What's to stop us?
1. The U.N.!! They will go to any means to protect Iran and will try more sanctions which will NOT work. Iran will have Al-Qaeda to fund them.

2. Europe. They too believe in diplomacy only tactics which of course will not work.

Sometimes diplomacy can work...certainly. But, in this situation with Iran at last report is going  NON-STOP with their nuke program until they have a bomb. Of course, the Liberals are going to say...what bomb? I see no bomb here. Wait til Israel is nuked to see how the Libs will react. How would they react? With what? More negotiations? Most likely.

Don't wait too long, Mr. President like you did with Iraq..that I admit. GW waited almost too long to go into Iraq, but luckily we did oust Saddam and his evil sons. I think the U.N. tried their best to stall Bush as long as they could to protect Saddam and they are trying it again.




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June 22, 2008 02:22 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Comment updated June 22, 2008 11:31 PM

“Iran Gate:’ Are they making it all up about Iran?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM-3pyeG6UI&feature=related

 

 

 

Are not the UN & Military Industrial Complex controlled from the same literal head? Does not this head fear Iran, not because of nukes but becuase of Iran's independance and beauty, a threat to the NWOr's quest for world domination? 

 

Bomb Iran, No! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXl4vMRocHk

 

 

 

June 22, 2008 02:27 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Comment updated June 22, 2008 03:08 PM
I say let it Rip! I don't mind my tax dollars being spent on bombs for Iran.  Irans leadership have been thumbing their noses at us for a long time. We don't have to send troops in.  Invading ,occuping and rebuilding thats another story. If these people get a hold of nuclear weapons,we got problems.


For all who have fallen,we must move forward But, for the right reasons.*In my mind, so called "legal residency" is just as a threat as illegal immigration and it the missing topic in the immigration debate.*Every man dies,but not every man truely lives*
June 22, 2008 04:43 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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California Refugee said: I say let it Rip! I don't mind my tax dollars being spent on bombs for Iran. Irans leadership have been thumbing their noses at us for a long time. We don't have to send troops in. Invading ,occuping and rebuilding thats another story. If these people get a hold of nuclear weapons,we got problems.

 

How Iran would retaliate if it comes to war

Military analysts say the Islamic Republic would strike back in unconventional ways – targeting American interests in Iraq and Afghanistan.

By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

from the June 20, 2008 edition

…."If you attack Iran you are unleashing a firestorm of reaction internally that will only strengthen revolutionary forces, and externally in the region," says Ranstorp. "It's a nightmare scenario for any contingency planner, and I think you really enter the twilight zone if you strike Iran."…. Get full article here: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0620/p07s04-wome.html


The 1953 Iranian coup d'état saw the overthrow of the democratically-elected administration of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq and his cabinet from power by British and American intelligence operatives working together with Iranian agents and elements of the Iranian army. Bribing Iranian officials, news media and others with British and American funds, Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),[1] organized the covert operation aiding retired Iranian General Fazlollah Zahedi and Imperial Guard Colonel Nematollah Nassiri. The project to overthrow Iran's government was codenamed Operation Ajax.[2]

The coup has been called "a critical event in post-war world history." It re-installed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, replacing an elected government with a pro-Western dictatorship, and is thought to have contributed to the 1979 overthrow of the Shah and his replacement with the anti-Western Islamic Republic.[3]

In America, it was originally considered a triumph of covert action but now is considered by many to have left "a haunting and terrible legacy."[4] In 2000, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, during the administration of President Bill Clinton, called it a "setback for democratic government" in Iran.[5]

Reasons given for why the coup occurred include CIA bribes, and domestic dissatisfaction with the Mossadegh government. Motivations given for the foreign coup planners include desire to control Iranian oil fields, contempt for democracy in non-European states, and more benign concerns over Iran's coming under the control of the Soviet bloc of Iran's traditional enemy Russia………..  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

 

 


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