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Bush Plans War on Iran
The Sunday Times of London is reporting that the Pentagon has plans for three days of massive air strikes against 1,200 targets in Iran. Last week, Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, told a meeting of The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal, that the military did not intend to carry out "pinprick strikes" against Iranian nuclear facilities. He said, "They're about taking out the entire Iranian military."
Bush has already set the wheels in motion. With Rovian timing, Alberto Gonzales' resignation was sandwiched between two Bush screeds - one aimed at ensuring Congress scares up $50 billion more for the occupation of Iraq, the other designed to scare us into supporting war on Iran. As Gonzales rides off into the sunset, the significant questions are who will take his place and how that choice will facilitate Bush's occupation of Iraq and attack on Iran.
One name that's been floated for Bush's third attorney general is Joe Lieberman, the "independent" senator from Connecticut. Lieberman, who advocates the use of military force against Iran, was the only person Bush quoted in his August 28 speech to the American Legion. Bush called Iran "the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism" and pledged to "confront Tehran's murderous activities."
Gonzales greased the Bush/Cheney wheels for torturing in violation of the Geneva Conventions, illegally spying on Americans, and purging disloyal Bushies.
Similarly, Lieberman would ensure the Justice Department mounts a vigorous defense of a war of aggression against Iran. And Bush would get a two-fer: Connecticut's Republican governor would appoint a Republican to fill Lieberman's seat, returning control of the Senate to the GOP. A Republican-controlled Senate would direct the agenda, thereby furthering the Bush/Cheney plan.
Lieberman is closely affiliated with American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. "AIPAC leverages its power by an alliance with the Christian Right, which has adopted a bizarre ideology of 'Christian Zionism,'" according to University of Michigan professor Juan Cole. "It holds that the sooner the Palestinians are ethnically cleansed, the sooner Christ will come back. Without millions of these Christian Zionist allies," Cole added, "AIPAC would be much less influential and effective."
During the 2004 election, a 100% "AIPAC voting record" was Lieberman's litmus test for an acceptable presidential candidate. As the House of Representatives was on the verge of passing a resolution that would've required Bush to consult Congress before attacking Iran, the AIPAC lobby stopped it in its tracks.
Bush's WMD-hyping against Iran is déja vu in the run-up to Operation Iraqi Disaster, where he played loose and fast with the truth about Iraq's alleged WMDs. His statement that a nuclear Iran could put the region "under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust" conjures up his images of a "mushroom cloud" in the hype-up to Iraq.
How inconvenient for Bush that the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) just found Iran's uranium enrichment program is operating well below capacity and is nowhere near producing significant amounts of nuclear fuel. The IAEA report says Iran "has been providing the agency with access to declared nuclear materials, and has provided the required nuclear material accountancy reports in connection with declared nuclear material and facilities."
Iran and IAEA agreed on a plan with a step-by-step timetable of cooperation to settle unresolved issues. The agreement said there were "no other remaining issues and ambiguities regarding Iran's past nuclear program and activities," and characterized the accord as "a significant step forward."
"This is the first time Iran is ready to discuss all the outstanding issues which triggered the crisis in confidence," said IAEA director general Mohamed ElBaradei. "I'm clear at this stage you need to give Iran a chance to prove its stated goodwill. Sanctions alone, I know for sure, are not going to lead to a durable solution"
In 2003, when Dr. ElBaradei reported there was no evidence that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program, the White House was not pleased. And as Saddam Hussein became more cooperative with the weapons inspector, Bush became "infuriated," according to Bob Woodward.
Bush's vow, "We will confront this danger before it is too late," is the Iran incarnation of his illegal preemptive war doctrine, which he inaugurated in Iraq. In a clear signal he is seeking regime change in Iran, Bush called for "an Iran whose government is accountable to its people, instead of leaders who promote terror and pursue the technology that could be used to develop nuclear weapons."
Barnett Rubin reported on Global Affairs blog that one of the leading neo-conservative institutions has "instructions" from Dick Cheney's office to "roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day; it will be coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects. It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves, designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war can be maintained. Evidently they don't think they'll ever get majority support for this - they want something like 35-40 percent support, which in their book is 'plenty.'"
Bush/Cheney created the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) to lead a propaganda campaign to bolster public support for war with Iraq. The White House decided to wait until after Labor Day of 2002 to kick off WHIG's mission. Chief of staff Andrew Card explained, "From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August." Five years later, they're marketing a new and even more dangerous product - war with Iran. British military historian Corelli Barnett says "an attack on Iran would effectively launch World War III."
Our military spending has reached $1 billion every 2-1/2 days and we are borrowing $2-1/2 billion per day. Bush is mortgaging our children's future security and wealth. We have lost more than 3,700 soldiers in Iraq and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died.
We have already seen how easily Congress caves in to AIPAC. It's up to the people. As Noam Chomsky said, "The most effective barrier to a White House decision to launch a war [on Iran] is the kind of organized popular opposition that frightened the political-military leadership enough in 1968 that they were reluctant to send more troops to Vietnam."
Marjorie Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and President of the National Lawyers Guild. Her new book, Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law, was just published. Her articles are archived at http://www.marjoriecohn.com.
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Show AllKen Hausle September 3rd, 2007 10:44 am
"i don't know what pelosi is so scared of. she could beat the diapars right off cheney."
Pelosi, like then rest of our elected representatives, Republican or Democrats, are torch bearers of Israeli interest. So she is not afraid, she is just playing out her designated role.
Welcome to USrael.
Can you say:
"War Criminals"?
Leibermann? You gotta be shitting me!
How is it that all of the criminal plans of the lice in Washington are known in advance and no one has the means to prevent them? We didn't elect anybody to destroy our children and our way of life.
All a terrorist has to do is sit on his hands while these despicable criminals wreck what is left of government by We the People.
Maybe that is why we haven't had any more attacks like 9/11.
Given the IAEA report stating the Iran is not developing nuclear weapons, the state of the military, the lack of public support for such an escalation and the reality that Iran is not Iraq and bombing them with anything less than nukes (not a viabley acceptable option) would not be effective at anything but inciting massive retiation, an outright attack seems unrealistic. More likely they will keep it low-intensity. As for "the plan," such plans have existed for some time and not only for Iran. That we know Cheney and Bush want to attack Iran however is more than enough reason to remove them from office -- by force of arms if necessary, and place them under arrest for the crimes already committed.
Can you say "Bible as self-fulfilling prophecy"? The Bible is at the heart of ALL these maniacs on all sides, a world view is as fascist as they ever came---exterminate those who neither believe nor produce profit and keep your eyes on the sky to ignore your bloodsoaked hands. (BTW, women shut up and breed.) There can be no real revolution for human peace until we throw that f-ing book out of our souls---and may Joe Lieberman be clinging to it when we do so!
Jack37,
"There can be no real revolution for human peace until we throw that f-ing book out of our souls"
Amen to that!
The biggest and most successful scam ever perpetrated in the history of Mankind!
religion has been the most destructive force in the history of mankind. google - violence and and the biblical god, and violent quotes in the koran.
So they think 35% public support is enough. Congress will roll over on this as usual. Why don't they just stay on their backs? They spend most of their time there anyway.
Lieberman as AG? He fits. He likes torture. He hates Arabs. He wouldn't investigate anything that would offend Bush, his buddy. Gonzales has set up the US Department of Justice as a branch of the Republican National Committee and it can run on autopilot.
I third Jack37 Marx got one thing right when he said religion is the opiate of the masses. How many attacks for oil and Israel will we have to see before we rise up and overthrow these blatant war criminals?
And the Precipitous slide continues.
Now we will have a Thousand year war. The Echoes of our greed still costing lives and Treasure, long into the Oil-less future.
Criminal! Plain and Simple ... Idiocy!
A KNESAL .......................... 'Liberal Warrior'
It seems to me that the initiating of impeachment hearings would be the best deterrent for the planned attack on Iran.
But first, someone with access needs to ask the Speaker of the House this question.
Is there ANY possible reason that IMPEACHMENT could be put on back the table? If the answer is no, then we need to ask the House to replace the speaker. We cannot wait until after the attack on Iran, to act.
Bush and his PNAC buddies have been trying to insult and aggravate the Iranians into invading Iraq in order to justify expanding their war.
How can war-profiteers profit if everyone insists on stopping their wars???
I say we draft Bush and Cheney and their evil cohorts and send them all to Baghdad with baseball bats as weapons.
We should also deport Leiberman to Israel... let him join the Likud Party where he belongs.
Regarding; Kathyodat,
"Why don't they just stay on their backs?"
Is that a nice way of saying 'Bent over'
................... A!
The Bible is one ugly book-it even endorses human slavery(it was ok to beat your slaves until they are blind--just dont kill them).
But you cant take religion out of the human soul. Even secularism is classified as a religion and can be destructive(the A bomb, progress for the sake of progress,). I refuse to believe that all we would have to do is destroy a boring work of literature haphazardly edited by the Roman Empire and we would have peace on earth. China is pretty horrendous and is atheist(also a religious stance).
I would prefer that humanity embraced mysticism instead of specific revelatory theism(what Bush and zionists adhere to).
Believing in a deity isnt a problem as much as when you believe that it gives you the authority to harm others. Secularists can be just as guilty as theists for that.
"...Bush called for 'an Iran whose government is accountable to its people, instead of leaders who promote terror and pursue the technology that could be used to develop nuclear weapons.'"
When our president can say this without irony, we know that public discourse is dead.
Spike September 2nd, 2007 12:45 pm
Leibermann?@#$#@#$%
"All a terrorist has to do is sit on his hands while these despicable criminals wreck what is left of government by We the People.
Maybe that is why we haven't had any more attacks like 9/11.".....
You Nailed It....
They (Bush/Cheney)won't listen to their diplomatic community. They won't listen to their Intel community, they won't listen to the military (except if they say "Yassir bossir, dahs right!"). The won't listen to the congress (who like the military has learned to assume the position to lick between the spread cheeks of their butts. They won't listen to the American people, their allies, or the UN (either the general assembly or the IAEA).
All of that being given what alternative is left short of either:
1. A military mutiny and coup de tat.
2. Twin assassinations in which case we have the dubious distinction of seeing Nancy Pelosi become the first woman president (not a pleasent prospect for even a day let alone a little over a year).
Clearly assassinations seem the only practical answer to preventing nuclear war with Iran and the potential devastation of the entire planet's environment and economy, along with many more needless deaths.
But beyond just lopping off the two heads of this hydra, the entire State, Defense, Intel, and Administrative stablishment of this rotten to the core government has to be de-neoconned.
That should means a whole lot of under assistant secretaries of this, that, and the other should be packed away to places like Gitmo or Alcatraz for permanent banishment and exile. (Think tanks which have turned into the minor league farm teams for ideologes on their way to high government position need a similar purging and liquidation.)
So who will plant the bomb, fire the bullets, or support those who do? Who hates Wall Street more than they hate the Beltway establishment? Aye, there's the rub! And everyone of these bastards from Bush/Cheney to the think-tank establishments know it. They lead a nation of morally disabled cowards--of whose leadership they are worthy--more than willing to let things rock on.
Maybe there will be a few patriots in Australia this coming Wednesday who can get the ball rolling.
National strike 090/10-09/11.
A KNESAL, Did I put it nicely? That was unintentional.
Those damn Iranians are also responsible for 9/11, Katrina, the Utah mine collapse, the MN bridge collapse, the exploding Lex Ave steampipe, and, of course, Osama - turns out he's both Saudi Arabian AND an Iranian, er, something bad, whatever.
With traitor Joe as the next AG, at least Mel will be able to blame the Jew for starting another illegal "war" and not have to apologize from rehab this time...
I had read about the IAEA report that concluded Iran was not seeking nuclear weapons. Then I heard a reporter on NPR this morning say that the UN believes Iran's centrifuges are intended for developing nuclear weapons capabilities. No mention of th IAEA report. The media's complicity in developing the (bogus) case for war against Iran is just as bad as it was with Iraq.
jack57andjaalle____Admittedly, the Bible is a violent book, but you have it wrong to say that it is causing all of these problems we are facing. The fault lies mostly in the mixing of church and state recently, instead of the separation, which our founders wisely intended. You can find about whatever you are looking for in the Bible,as in the old testament there is much war and vengeance, and in the new there is peace and love.
At any rate, it has been around for a while, and will continue to be, so we must learn to deal with it. There are many good and sensible people who are religous and many that are secular.
We also have to put up with comments from people like yourselves that insist on using foul language to make their point. (Just print the entire word, we know what it is anyway).
Right now, Iranian forces are accused, with little, if any, solid evidence, of helping kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Meanwhile, ignored by our media, U.S. special forces and CIA operatives are in Iran selecting targets for our planes, drones, and cruise missiles and supporting anti-Iranian government groups there. In effect, we have been waging war on Iran from inside Iran for almost two years already.
Yet all we hear in the U.S. is how Iran is possibly behind attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq, ignoring the above.
The U.S. media, can claim little or no credibility.
Religion has nothing to do with this scurrilous activity.
Anyone on this blog who has tried to paint an negative view of Islam is hi-jacking the thread of this blog by making specious and irrelevant diatribes. This has the effect of distracting attention from the arguments and comments of sincere individuals who are concerned by the immoral and illegal acts of our government these days and in the future.
I could be wrong but there diatribes sound a lot like the past efforts of the swiftboaters to paint anyone not supporting the administration's actions as 'unpatriotic' in reference to the Iraq fiasco. Sounds like the machine is being revved up early to 'dis' anyone who has figured out that a major anti-Iran spin is underway.
"If you liked Iraq, you'll love Iran!"
Until the US populace gets the courage to take to the streets and follow the example of Gandhi's non-violent marches and demonstrations nothing will change. The people have got to WANT the Constitution restored enough to ACT accordingly. If there is no such desire, there will will be no more US Constitution (except in name only).
Things will change only when the populace is alienated and hopeless.
Then they may :
STAND UP - for what they beleive to be right.
SIT DOWN - in the nearest street to bring transportaion, retail, everything to a standstill.
FIGHT - I hope like Gandhi's Pathan friend Badshar Khan(Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan) (check him out)a Pashtun nonviolent Muslim
FIGHT - Even if it means sacrifice to themselves to totally repudiate the oligarchy
FIGHT - As if their lives depend on active resistance - which they do
When people realize that they cannot ignore the actions of the government and relaize they themselves are the governmet, only then is change possible.
What a shame to let cowardice bring down such a noble experiment of human governance!!
Here are some comments by a man who stood by Gandhi - Badshah Khan, who led a 100,000 person army of non-violent Pashtuns from the Khyber pass region. He was a Pashtun (Afghan) political and spiritual leader known for his non-violent opposition to British Rule during the final years of the Empire on the Indian sub-continent. He was a lifelong pacifist and a devout Muslim. He was known as Badshah Khan (sometimes written as Bacha Khan), the `King of Chiefs', and `Frontier Gandhi'.
"To me nonviolence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people. Therefore I am devoting all my energies toward the establishment of a society that would be based on its principles of truth and peace." –
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
"Today's world is traveling in some strange direction. You see that the world is going toward destruction and violence. And the specialty of violence is to create hatred among people and to create fear. I am a believer in nonviolence and I say that no peace or tranquility will descend upon the people of the world until nonviolence is practiced, because nonviolence is love and it stirs courage in people." – Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan to an interviewer in 1985
His story is contained in 'Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan, A Man To Match His Mountains', by Eknath Easwaran (Published by Nilgiri Press).
Also see NPR highlights:
http://www.npr.org/programs/musings/2003/jan/khan.html?sc=emaf
"Our military spending has reached $1 billion every 2-1/2 days and we are borrowing $2-1/2 billion per day. Bush is mortgaging our children's future security and wealth."
If this country tries to 'liberate' Iran, what do you think the borrowing will have to be to support that adventure? And if we are condemmed by the whole world, who do we think is going to loan us the money?
While the Continental Army agreed to fight the British with no pay, one we start using-up our whiz-bang weapons, our corporate partners in the military-industrial complex are going to want their billions to provide us with war-fighting equipment. And if our IOU's become worthless, they're going to have second thoughts about spending their ill-gotten gains to support this Administration's war and 100 year Republican Reich.
FINI
The delussional members of the Administration down in the bunker, and their enablers outside, can't grasp a simple reality for their dreams of Empire. Remember, the Germans surrendered unconditionally a week after Hitler killed himself.
Fini. We should be so lucky as to have our Fuhrer repeat history. This is the worst nightmare of my life. and I am not young.
I know nothing of the inner workings of the US Military--- but the idea of a coup de etat is strangely, looking like an acceptable option. The obvious downside is that most career military types are by nature right wing. This is surreal---- How can such fools make every decision wrong?
I believe we should have a national strike--
a non-violent show of solidarity against this evil empire. I would certainly saddle Rocinante and join. The problem is, only a small percentage of the population is aware of the danger we face, and the unimaginable consequences of a continuation of the march over the cliff.
Given this preparation for unconditional war, Iran would be fully justified in doing an all out pre-emptive attack.
Isn't Lieberman a known foreign agent? I think he reports to Israel's defense minister. He certainly doesn't represent the US. Well, if Bush appoints him A-G it'll be a little easier to hold him accountable for his work selling out the USA.
There are now probably enough doubters and opponents of Bush/Cheney among congress and the public, however timid they still are, that that timidity could easily evaporate and impeachment actions come alive, if attacks on Iran were ordered.
This time, especially if once again there was no independently pre-vetted "evidence" presented to congressional leaders before hand, even a good many neocons would probably oppose the move.
Bush/Cheney know this political calculus though it's not inconceivable they'd choose to ignore it. They're certainly deranged enough. But they also might take an easier way out by having Israel do the dirty work instead.
Such a proxy move wouldn't fool anyone. But it would get the dirty work done while helping to confuse impeachment legalities at home.
Still, if Iran is attacked by the US (either way), and millions of Americans aren't then, finally brought out into streets demanding Bush/Cheney's ouster, we Americans will be more than just brain-dead. We will be both a brain dead people and a conquered people; conquered by our own government.
I'm not a huge fan of religion, and the fact that each side of this follows a different flavor of mono-theism can't help matters, BUT this is about oil. Not necessarily the supply of it, since as others have written elsewhere, once a tanker is out on the ocean the oil is in the world market. Iran would have a hard time shutting us out. The issue is CONTROL of the region and the black gold under it. Darth Cheney has concluded that our turn to the dark side will not be complete until Iran falls.
As I've mentioned in other comments years prior to CD allowing comments, this is the reason our jobs have been offshored. This is the reason that corporations have been actively encouraged to locate their profits less on America. When the addicted to self inflicted catastrophe insane idiots destroy Iran's military - and they will - they will lie about it and launch Iran's retaliation on top of our heads.
Low-intensity? Not when you can unleash Armageddon and fulfill the self-fulling prophecies of the Bible. Not a chance. It's all or nothing for the midnight cowboy and posse.
They have to destroy Iran, then bomb America senseless. Even the large corporations won't mind one bit since they've moved their most important operations off shore already. Why do you think Halliburton got out?
The only options left to us is either to incorporate as We The People, Inc. or convince Congress to start impeachment to keep everybody busy.
I despise Conyers for saying he doesn't have the votes because he's missing the big picture: keep the heat on these guys hot enough to make them sweat. But then Conyers is all too typical of most reps: he's a good Christian and he too believes at some point in time soon that Christ will return. Problem is that Christ ain't gonna!
If the title to this article wasn't so deadly serious, it would be humerous. Bush does not plan anything. He didn't plan past the attack on Iraq. If there had been any planning, we wouldn't have the mess over there than now exists. The Bush administration's policies are a total disaster, and if and when he attacks Iran we will all realize just how true that comment is. Bush will not only have destroyed Iraq, he will destroy America.
>" Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center"
I'm sure that the Cheney administration will be equally successful in Iran as they were in Iraq.
I have always thought that Lieberman was a senator for Israel.
Get ready for big trouble.
Blair's gone. Rove's gone. Gonzales has gone. Rice seems to be AWOL. British troops evacuated from Basra city today to their stronghold at Basra airport. Some more dots to join up? (i.e. people, yes even Rove and Fredo, realising they're now in over their heads in the Big Muddy.) On the other hand, the good news is - the more isolated Bush and Cheney become, the easier it becomes for everyone else to join... oh, what shall we call it? A coalition of the awaking?
Oh, come on Kem, of course they planned in Iraq. Their tanks raced across Iraq and landed in front of... the oil ministry. Now that's planning!
Mark my words" Dems = Bush -enablers.
And the soldiers and the bomber pilots who are going to bomb Iran are going to be war criminals, just like all US soldiers in Iraq.
This is extraordinarily frightening. Marjory Cohn is an extremely well-credentialed attorney and author. I have been hoping and praying that our representatives would begin to speak out loudly against any Iranian action. So far, nothing but silence, it seems. Is there no one left in our government who will stop this madness? I have emailed Conyers about bringing forth the impeachment resolution, which would at least slow this down some, but I wonder whether the leadership will ever let it see the light of day...or Conyers will get up the balls to just go ahead an do it...and show us that he really is, after all, a patriot.
By the way, I am a CT native and worked for a number of years for the AFL-CIO in the state. Joe Lieberman was the darling of the labor movement back in the late 70's; he was truly "one of the good guys." Whatever happened to him?
Global: You have it right . These war criminals need to be impeached NOW.Nancy Pelosi should never have been elected Speaker of the House when she took impeachment off the table before the democrats were sworn in.Pelosi is a disaster.Bush/Cheney are mad men who for some reason want to destroy the world so they must be run out of office before they start WWIII
Stinger--Of course you are correct--thanks for the spell check, agous and all!
"Pelosi never should have been elected Speaker of the House". Well, unfortunantely she was. Is there going to be an impeachment of anyone? I'd put my bet on Bush attacking Iran before we see anyone impeached.
If that fool does it, you'd better stock up on food supplies, medicine, plastic sheeting, duck tape, water, candles, fishing gear, rat traps and sleeping bags. It is gonna get rough. Did you know, the only fat in rodents is in their intestines. If you should ever find yourself in the positon of having to survive on mice and rats, clean out their guts, but save the membrane to put in the stew pot. We do require some fat in our diet.
This will be the irony of it all.
After the bombing has stopped and the tears are still being shed all over the world, the Temple in Israel will NOT rise, the clouds will NOT move away and there will be NO "Second Coming" of Jesus. Only the wailing of mother's and children, destruction and death. All those stupid books on the Bestseller lists about the "Second Coming" will be relegated to where they belong...right up people's asses!
All the "Born Again Hating Christians" in the Bible Belt and their wacked out Jewish "Brethren" in the Holy Land better run for cover. There will be Hell to pay to all of them for their intolerance and pure evil, hateful natures.
Having been raised as a Jesus-loving Christian, I suppose now would be a good time to take down all the pictures I have of J.C. around my house, lest I have a mark on me once all the shooting stops.
What IDIOTS! And to think of Jesus' statement at the Last Supper: "Of all the commandments you have been given, this is the most important of all. Love one another as I have loved you."
Those right-wing wacko Bible Belt Christian Fundamentalists and their Jewish "Brethren" in Israel JUST DON'T GET IT. They are too full of HATE and self-righteous indignation to see the proverbial forest for the trees.
'tens of thousands' of dead Iraqi's? The best study done so far, by Johns Hopkins, say their most recent research on the subject indicates a death toll closer to 700,000. If people, such as this author Marjorie Cohn, disagree with their methodology they should say why, rather than continuing the almost complete suppression of this research.
KEM PATRICK, thanks for the info on rat gut. i'm sitting here listening to wagner's "the ring," whose theme is of course the lust for total power. yes, there's oil, there's israel, there's the military-industrial-congressional-pharmaceutical-entertainment-etc. complex, the overworked or indifferent or complicit average american, but there's also the irrational, frenzied lust for control. and it runs throughout our gov't (the dems are no different.)
iran won't be no cakewalk, though. one reason we had sanctions for 12 years in iraq is to wear down the country so much that in effect it would be like invading grenada or panama.
in other news, bushlicker sarkozy just practically sanctioned bombing iran, and msnbc is reporting that iran is bombing villages in kurdish iraq.
Still time to convert to Judaism and invest in Halliburton or Exxon. And re-chose your parents. I'd suggest Ivy League old money.
In any case, the neocons already control the senate. There are enough crypto-Democrats, hawks, old money, Democrats in Name Only, and DLC/Blue Dog people that controlling the Senate in Name Only doesn't matter worth a hill of beans.
There's been no impeachment, no pulling out of Iraq, no substantial voting reforms, no single-payer, zilch. So the Dems lose control of the Senate. Who the hell would notice?
Derby35 must be on the AIPAC payroll.
" an outright attack seems unrealistic"
These are not realists, but sociopaths undergirded by ideology, so they're doubly removed from reality.
I am still curious to see what China will do. The question will become how much of their economy and people will they be willing to sacrifice if they dump U.S. treasury bills (which will put a major hurt on our economy)? Also keep in mind China signed an $8 billion oil deal with Iran. I do not think they would be willing to throw away that amount of money.
"I've lost count about how many times Ahmadinajab has threatened us and Israel with destruction"
That would be zero times, while the threats continue unabated from USrael. And his name is Ahmadinejad. I know it's a very hard name to spell.
As a born-again yellowdog, I'm afraid Joe Leiberman fits the bible's criteria of the one and only Anti-Christ. The Christain born-agains' prophecy may unfortunately come true-- they may just be a bit confused about who's good and who's evil.