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TechnoratiBipartisanship and Threats of War Toward Iran
Two former Senators -- conservative Democrat Chuck Robb and conservative Republican Dan Coats (that's what "bipartisan" means) -- have a jointly authored Op-Ed in The Washington Post today decreeing what the U.S. must do towards Iran. The essence: Iran must be prevented, using any means necessary, from not only obtaining nuclear weapons, but also denied even "the ability to quickly assemble a nuclear weapon," which means "the complete cessation of enrichment activities inside Iran," even for civilian purposes.
To achieve that, the Patriot Act should be used to block all Iranian banks from any involvement in the U.S. economy and "our European allies [must] sever commercial relations with Tehran." And this is what we should immediately prepare for:
The U.S. military is capable of launching a devastating strike on Iran's nuclear and military infrastructure -- probably with more decisive results than the Iranian leadership realizes.
An initial air campaign would probably last up to several weeks and would require vigilance for years to come. Military action would incur significant risks, including the possibility of U.S. and allied losses, wide-scale terrorist reprisals against Israel and other nations, and heightened unrest in the region.
Both to increase our leverage over Iran and to prepare for a military strike, if one were required, the next president will need to begin building up military assets in the region from day one.
They conclude with this grave warning: "Time may be shorter than many imagine, and failure could carry a catastrophic cost to the national interest."
So here we have, yet again, our glorious Foreign Policy Community threatening another country -- one which hasn't attacked us and can't attack us -- with war, threatening to bomb them with "devastating strikes" that "would probably last up to several weeks and would require vigilance for years to come." And they want the next President, beginning this January, to "build up military assets in the region" in order to threaten and prepare for those attacks.
It's just objectively true that there is no country in the world -- anywhere -- that threatens to attack and bomb other countries as routinely and blithely as the U.S. does. What rational leader wouldn't want to obtain nuclear weapons in a world where the "superpower" is run by people like Dan Coates and Chuck Robb who threaten to attack and bomb whatever countries they want? Even the Coats/Robb Op-Ed argues that Iranian proliferation would be so threatening to the U.S. because "the ability to quickly assemble a nuclear weapon would effectively give Iran a nuclear deterrent" -- in other words, they'd have the ability to deter a U.S. attack on their country, and we can't have that.
And then there is the supreme irony that Coats, Robb and their war-threatening comrades justify an attack on Iran by referencing U.N. Resolutions which Iran is putatively violating, even though Article 2 of the U.N. Charter explicitly provides that "All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state." Yet Supremely Serious Bipartisan Leaders like Coats and Robb who shape U.S. foreign policy -- along with the rest of our political establishment -- routinely violate that provision more than any other country in the world, by constantly threatening to invade and bomb a whole roster of other nations.
Not only does this war advocacy reflect the reckless militarism of our Foreign Policy Community, it also illustrates how deceptive is the Beltway concept of "bipartisanship." In their Op-Ed, Coats and Robb are summarizing the "findings" of a new report (.pdf) from what they call a "high-level task force, a politically diverse task force," and which The Post calls "the Bipartisan Policy Center's national security task force on Iran." That task force was convened by the "Bipartisan Policy Center" -- an organization founded in 2007 by former Senator Majority Leaders George Mitchell, Howard Baker, Tom Daschele and Bob Dole which "seeks to develop policy solutions that make sense for the nation and can be embraced by both parties."
The Center is basically a trite Broderian dream. You see, as they piously trumpet, these Serious Leaders rise above the "partisanship [that] poisons our national dialogue" and instead engage in "respectful discourse across party lines" in order to "develop policy solutions that make sense for the nation and can be embraced by both parties" -- such as bombing Iran for weeks (at least) and, if necessary, unilaterally starting a war that requires "years of vigilance." Their Serious, pretty logo of a converging blue and red arc demonstrates how civil and harmonious they are. Let's look at what this elevated "bipartisanship" really means in the case of the Iran report:
The Serious bipartisan task force that produced this war-threatening report employed two "consultants" which it described as "two leading Iran experts: Dr. Michael Rubin, and Mr. Ken Katzman." "Dr. Michael Rubin" is the supremely crazed neocon of National Review and the American Enterprise Institute, a former Giuliani advisor who has a single-minded obsession with urging American war on Iran. Katzman is a less ideological D.C. bureaucrat who covers Iran for the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service -- a competent expert by all appearances but hardly a counterweight to the extremist Rubin.
So those are the two "experts" -- a raving neocon and a neutral technocrat -- on whom they relied. And the conservative co-Chairmen -- Coats and Robb -- were joined on the 11-member panel by such disinterested beacons of bipartisan objectivity as:
AIPAC loyalist Dennis Ross, current Chairman of The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute that includes scores of Israeli government officials;
Steve Rademaker, a former Bush official and chief of staff to Bill Frist, current BGR lobbyist and Iran extremist (Iran "could produce enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon in 16 days");
Kenneth R. Weinstein, a Weekly Standard contributor and chairman of the neoconservative Hudson Institute, which " frequently champions aggressive and Israel-centric U.S. foreign policies''; and,
Henry Sokolski, former top aide to Paul Wolfowitz and Dan Quayle, and resident at the right-wing Heritage Foundation and Hoover Institution.
The rest of the panel was composed of several retired military officials, such as McCain supporter Ret. Admiral Gregory "Grog" Johnson, and former Clinton administration Pentagon official Ashton Carter. In other words, it was the very embodiment of Glorious Beltway "bipartisan" foreign policy tribunals -- numerous hard-core, right-wing ideologues sprinkled with a couple of like-minded right-wing Democrats and a neutral establishment technocrat or two, all endorsing a pre-ordained, flagrantly extremist, war-loving policy which is then deemed "the harmonious mainstream Center" which no Serious Person opposes.
Much is made of the vague and distorted "threats" issued by a rogue Iranian official, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But here you have -- yet again -- the predominant, bipartisan faction inside the U.S. composed of leading political and military figures, announcing, in one of the country's most mainstream and influential media outlets, very specific plans to threaten, attack and bomb Iran, and to do so quickly and decisively, regardless of whether there is U.N. approval and regardless of whether Iran intends to attack the U.S.
Meanwhile, both presidential candidates, at least rhetorically, affirm the central premise (one must "do everything" to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, including the use of force), and leading right-wing journals publish plans for bombing and invading Iran and seizing its oil assets until they agree to change its governnment to one that we approve. There is a prevailing perception that the bipartisan Foreign Policy Community has learned its lesson from the Iraq debacle, but threats of war and endless war itself are their primary, indiscriminately used weapon and that has not changed.
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Show AllThe "bipartisan committee" backed by right wingnuts is as old as the hills -- the usual suspects.
Any chucklehead with an IQ warmer than a room thermostat knows that the only way of lessening the threat of an Iranian build-up is to:
a) truly recognize Iran as an equal member of the family of nations, and
b) engage in serious peace diplomacy in the Middle East, putting our money where our mouths are, and calling for a comprehensive regional Middle Eastern nuclear disarmament initiative. We take the first steps as a good faith effort in this process by arranging for a mutual 75% reduction in nuclear weapons between Russia and ourselves.
I'm a little late to the comments section. This is one more attempt to keep someone excited about the idea of attacking Iran. AIPAC swarmed Congress earlier this year to get our incredibly gullible members to sign on to HR Resolution 362 and Senate Resolution 580, which would have had our navy blockading Iranian ports, an act of war. Luckily, some very concerned people alerted our Congress to the potential for war and those resolutions were buried.
On July 11, The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that a decision had been made not to attack Iran and the US also told the Israelis that they could not cross Iraq to attack Iran. Top level Israelis visited Washington to attempt to reverse the decision. Ehud Barak (former PM), Gabby Ashkenazi Army (Chief of Staff), and Mier Dagen (Mossad director). My take on why the price of crude has dropped so drastically is that the word got out to all the hedge funds that an attack would not happen so they started dumping their contracts.
The nation owes a great thanks to General Peter Pace for forcing the Crazies to stop their plans for using nuclear bunker busters on Iran. The same thing for Admiral William Fallon "There will be no attack on my watch". Both men were forced into retirement for resisting attempts to create an excuse to attack Iran. When VP Cheney attempted to get the Joint Chiefs to conduct a "surgical strike" against a unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, they finally developed a backbone and called his bluff with,"When the Iranians retaliate for our attack, how far do we go to full scale war"? The attack was called off. There have been other attempts to create an excuse for the attack and luckily the top level military has refused to go along. Hopefully they will continue to resist and even rebel against the "F$$king Crazies" (Colin Powell's description) attempt to justify an attack. Old men create the wars that young men have to fight.
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Both Demo@rats and De-publicans like to pick their victims with Aplomb.
When it comes to millions of deaths, they know who they like to bomb.
Whether those pesky Arabs, rag heads or slope heads, Asia or Middle East,
South Americas or Philippines, all victims enrich the Military beast.
The Swindlers and Looters Parties like to trick the man in the street,
when it comes to millions of dollars, they know who they like to fleece,
Whether its the social welfare or medical care, or environmental riches,
No dollar is too small or spare, to go into the coffers of wealthy filches.
When Solar Power energy can be soaked and stored from everywhere all around,
The party machine men prefer that you pay to get energy from carbon in the ground.
Pay monopolisers to scour the earth, and in a few short lifetimes, to undo like a fool,
millions of years of safe carbon storage work, done by Gaia to keep the planet cool.
Everything is calculated for profit to amass, in very short term ways,
So that rich men can be comfortable at the end of their days.
With the wealth stolen from men and nature alike, they create a virtual reality.
Wrapped up in protective cocoon, from caused mess and pain that they will never see.
"Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
-Hermann Goering, April 18, 1946
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The drop in the price of oil due to the bubble bursting would be more likely to PROMPT an invasion on Iran , then prevent one.
Merril lynch , (Since purchased) Goldman Sachs and a myraid of firms are exposed to bankruptcy by a plummetting price for oil. They hold paper by the billions that "bet" oil prices would remain high.
It more then a little likely that their lobbyists pressure the US Government to do something about the dropping price of oil.
The Government of the United States now guarantees that a lot of that paper.
Russia was one of the countries that was standing in the way of an invasion of Iraq. Now they see the price paid for their own oil plummet. Will Putin think it now in his best interests to sit allow an invasion of Iran?
Is this price of oil plummeting manufactured so as to ensure Russia and the rest of the Gulf States are bought on board for an attack on Iran wherein once the US attacks and gains strategic control of the region, the price will be allowed to climg again due to "supply and demand" ?
It speculated that shortly after the US elections, during the transition period, Israel will attack Iran which will then "force" The US in on Israels behalf. Any new administration would find it very hard NOT to "Come to Israels Aid".
It always best to remember that no matter the Political party in charge in Washington, their policy will not be motivated by what is best for Americans or world peace. They will be motivated by the "Great Dollar almighty" and will follow policies that best serve the corporate interests and the wealth making opportunities for those pulling the strings.
Coupled with this is a desire to see the rights and power of the Citizen to influence policy eroded to such a degree it becomes non existent.
To keep that Citizenry complacent they must ensure, along with their allies the mainstream Media, that the public believes such activities for own good. Part of the way this is done is to manufacture a climate of fear and create enemies and issues where none really exist.
Is that your standard technique? If you don't like the message,shriek Anti-Semitic. You must have read the article from Salon Magazine July 02, 2008) "The Right's Game Playing With Dual Loyalty and Anti-Semitism Accusations? There are intelligent people in Israel who know the dangers of "Rabid Zionists" and their willingness to attack Iran based on dubious, faith based intelligence.
Hi kitty,
Would you mind pointing out the instance(s) of anti-semitism and/or hate in Mr. Greenwald's article? I would appreciate that, thank you.
PS - do you realize that someone who is anti-semitic would be hateful of Jews and Arabs alike?
www.dictionary.com:
Se⋅mit⋅ic
/səˈmɪtɪk/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [suh-mit-ik]
–noun
1. a subfamily of Afroasiatic languages that includes Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, and Phoenician.
Israel has between 150 and 300 nuclear weapons. Jimmy Carter says it's 150. No matter the actual number, Israel (along with the United States) can turn Iran into a plain of glass. Iran knows it and that's why, even if they get the bomb, they will never attack Israel. Khan, the Pakistani Dr. Strangelove, has already and long ago passed along to whomever information on constructing nuclear weapons. That cat's out of the bag. The Iranians won't be able to add anything new . . . unless they learn how to construct a thermonuclear weapon.
hello_kitty (nice toys,but pricey): Hello. I am a Jew. Are you channeling Condi Rice in re Iraq in 2002/2003? If there's a mushroom cloud, it'll be started by Israel or the US because Iran can't. What are your sources? "the tiny ....state of Israel" is neither fledgling nor helpless and is certainly not behaving neighborly to Palestinians nor Lebanon. Go and read: PeaceNow or Gush Shalom the Israeli peace group online or the Israeli papers which have all kinds of discussions not happening here. Also, read Robert Fisk of the Independent in UK. He is also frequently on CommonDreams, so just do a search. And please, stop talking "talking points". And read/listen/view DemocracyNow online www.democracynow.org or go to Pacifica www.pacifica.org. Learn some other views in advance of more violence. As Randi Rhodes once so aptly said on the radio, "Americans should be made to learn about other countries before attacking them. Learn about the geography, the people." Read some Noam Chomsky (also in CommonDreams files or www.chomsky.info on Israel and US. He has books on it,too.
Israel is NOT a true ally of the USA. That is a scam run by AIPAC.
Israel is much more likely to attack anyone in the MidEast before any other MidEast nation attacks Israel. It is far past time for the USA to abandon the Communist Russian and Eastern European Ashkenazi Khazars of Israel, a nation founded by TERRORISTS, like the Stern Gang, the Haganah, and the Irgun. You must think everyone in America is stupid.....not so.
Hmmm... I'm assuming that you're a time-traveler under the mistaken impression that it's 1948. It's actually 2008.
.But folks, we have god on our side, dontcha know? It is our right, as the chosen of a christian god, to decide which nations are allowed nuclear generated electricity, or, for that matter, which nations are allowed to live at all.....what is wrong with you folks that you fail to understand this simple tenet?
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We see things, not as they are, but as we are.
Anais Nin
I see no real alternative to this one...God hisself is going to have to intervene and give a sign, because folks are just not getting it.
Bring America Back !!!!
**A man running for Congress in Wisconsin, who speaks the language, says
Machmoud never made the statement attributed to him about wiping Israel off
the map !
**Kevin Barrett, MUJCA, says Machmoud was trying to quote the leader Ayatolla,
who referred to Israel's taking the Palestinian lands, therefore the nation of
Israel should not exist, but for having taken that land.
**Mainstream Media and Neocon Press gave their own desired translation and
attributed it to Machmoud===and he's been saddled with it all thru the so
called debate about Iran's Nuclear capabilities. Barrett says when Machmoud
visited Columbia University a year ago, when interviewed, he did deny making
that statement about wiping off the map !!!
***When it comes to handing down a translation of Iranian source, do you really think that King Bush, his Neocons, or the NewsCorp could resist
an interpretation that would go the way of those constant WarMongers?
I believe Kevin Barrett's sources that Machmoud never made the statement in
that context !!!
While the Democrats and Republicans continue "Balkanizing" the United States, the military will continue it's job of fomenting yet more illegal and profitable wars of aggression and Middle East hegemony. But at what cost?
This maniacal plan of perpetual war for perpetual peace will only continue to kill and maim innocent men, woman and children. Furthermore, any senseless pre-imminent attack on Iran would not only kill thousands of innocent Iranians, but would be the catalyst for a war that would eventually send our country into a financial abyss that'll make the Great Depression look like a walk in the park. Not to mention the likelihood of someone setting off a nuke, then it's game, set match.
It is imperative that we continue to call our so called representitatives in Washington, and implore them to discourage such a heinous attack on Iran.
You'd be better off electing different reps in a couple of weeks. Vote Green Party or Libertarian Party for Congress and Senate. Vote Nader or McKinney or Barr for President.
If you don't want a war with Iran, we need a change like that. The 'radicals' on both the left and the right oppose this. The Democrats and the Republicans both support it.
""And the gravest threat to Israel today obviously comes from Iran, that their radical regime continues to pursue the ability to build a nuclear weapon and continues to support terrorism across the region. President Ahmadinejad continues his offensive denials of the Holocaust and his disturbing denunciations of Israel.
The threat of Iran is real and is great. And my goal as president will be to eliminate it."
--Obama, May 2008 http://votersforpeace.us/press/index.php?itemid=320
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"To know, and not to do, is not to know"
It's just objectively true that there is no country in the world -- anywhere -- that threatens to attack and bomb other countries as routinely and blithely as the U.S. does.
-Obama: “And so my job as the next commander in chief is going to be to make a decision what is the right war to fight, and, and how do we fight it?”
I love the implied assumption in these words that we must be fighting a war. Obama's only message is that he'd be better at chosing which war to fight and that he'd be a better technician in how he fights it.
Vote Nader.
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"To know, and not to do, is not to know"
Exactly, and it is true. Both wings of the Democratic-Republican Party of war, greed and Big Bother guarantee war or you get your money back.
Glenn,
This is a great investigative report on who is encouraging the foolish assault on Iran, all these Know-Nothing right-wingers.
Have they learned nothing from the last eight years?
Does this nation even have the resources to waste on another illegal, immoral, and unnecessary military debacle in the Middle East? Everybody knows that we can't afford it and neither can the world afford it.
Such neocon thinking is finished. Three months and the lame-duck Bush administration is finally and thankfully gone from office.
Can anyone pushing "The Party", please tell me where our progressive candidate is? Anyone?
Oh well... guess I should just vote for Obama then....
Anyone want to take a stab at what came out of the US/Russia top echelon military meeting that took place a few days ago?
Perhaps something like...
Okay, we'll give you South Ossetia and put Georgia back on the table, but we want a public statement from you that you'll support an extended UN mandate for US presence in Iraq beyond December 31... even if we can only get our puppet to "invite" us to stay.
And we'll *guarantee* you Georgia and perhaps stop pushing for a NATO missile "defense" on your borders... but only if you don't oppose an Israeli/US tactical effort to end nuclear generation/enrichment in Iran, oh say... for about a year.
And also, if you allow us to "defend the Balkans" we might even put Kosovo back in play.
And... oh yes, you would have to continue resisting any OPEC push to cut oil production for a few months and in exchange, we'll quit undermining your stock market and currency and allow you to upgrade your military unopposed... for a while.
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The sane approach is to call on Iran and the United States to a conference to discuss differences and past grievances. Also set up Official Diplomatic Missions for regular "face to face" discussions.
The United States recognized both Stalin and his successors, as well as Mao and the Chinese Communist Party. Both of these moves were sane, and eventually led to mutually benificial breakthroughs.
It is Israel that poses the "greatest threat of world destruction". Israel is committed to creating a 2nd Empire of David. Israel has the third largest nuclear missle inventory in the world, and the capability to "nuke" any nation on this globe...............
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We're being prepped. First starts the fear mongering. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars aren't panning out enough for the MIC so the establishment needs to generate support for another war, one that will be, at least for a short time, palatable to the easily scared and thus easily led by the big-bull-ring-in-the-nose, average American. And, I'm sure that these “bipartisan” leaders are die-hard christians who will eventually appeal to god and country before they're through. Let's call this what it really is: another oil grab.
biwee:
EVERYONE should be forced to give up their nuclear weapons then work together to get better alternative energy sources up and running so that we don't have to rely on nuclear power.
Mordechai Shibilikov:
From Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) [jargon]:
nerd
n.
1. [mainstream slang] Pejorative applied to anyone with an
above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and ordinary social
rituals.
2. [jargon] Term of praise applied (in conscious ironic reference to
sense 1) to someone who knows what's really important and interesting
and doesn't care to be distracted by trivial chatter and silly status
games. Compare {geek}.
I assume you mean the first, but I would disagree with the high IQ part being attributed to these wannabe neanderthals.
Want a list of people with high IQs who have done "no good" for humanity? Don't insult the Neanderthals.
The Neocons are nerds, the very definition of the word and the concept. Some of them - Karl Rove, Douglas Feith, Bill Kristol, Richard Perle, Frances Fukuyama, George Will - appear to come right out of central casting. They are degenerate dime novel writers spinning for each other outlandish and juvenile fantasies about Jesse James and Billy the Kid. How is it this band of closet ass kickers, murdering hundreds of thousands as they stand around the water cooler swapping adolescent fantasies about swaggering into a biker bar and beating the shit out of everyone there, ever come to be so powerful?
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But the worst part is that the children of these hypocrites rarely, if ever, serve in the US military!!
If Murkins could be made to fear mighty Grenada, anything is possible.
Sioux Rose
RICH: Could be the events you mention are coalescing to lend Obama "legitimacy" in his foreign policy, although I don't think the dots NECESSARILY lead to direct aggression against Iran. (I hope and pray not.) He is being rendered the handmaiden to the military-industrial complex, getting the official Initiation through these figureheads... a basic anointing of sorts. He made be more sold out than we'd like but I think he still has a soul... if one tainted by too many insider contacts.
"I think he still has a soul..."
Quite an endorsement. You're Obama supporter, right?
Just to screw with all the Democratic Party apologists, Cheney should switch parties and steal the democratic nomination in 2012.
Then they would have to vote for him or risk electing a Republican!
I think this particular piece of sarcasm was rendered inert when Obama declared that he wanted war criminal and multiply-exposed liar Colin Powell as an advisor (on top of war criminals Brzezinksi and Albright).
What was that clever little axiom, something about absolute power corrupting absolutely?
It's stuff like this that makes me nostalgic for the good old days of the cold war.
Sioux Rose
A new "Clockwork Orange" Initiative is desperately needed as a reform measure to be put to use--behavior modification style--on minds like those mentioned above, who are bent on war and the fabricating of enemies. Part of "their program" would involve witnessing the "collateral damage" in the form of MAIMED children and widowed women who were falsely lent the castigation of ENEMY. Not only will they experience high doses of electro-magnetic "therapy" as they view the horrors, and HEAR the expert testimonies of those "on the losing side" of these inane spectres, they will also be forced to spend THREE years in rehabilitative projects to those lands that their elected policies brought to ruin and despair. THAT is change I can believe in!
I bet the Iranian president would not lose any sleep on what Mr Goat or Cob or their Zionist cohorts say or write. As the roster of names shows, these are a bunch of Israel-first, AIPAC paid Zionists propagandists who simply say or do as they are paid to do or say .
What is surprising is that these people whose salaries are paid by the U.S. taxpayers are sacrificing the American interests for Israel. In any other country, they would be tried for treason.
The president of the United States lied like a carpet when he invaded Iraq. We should not then expect much from these underlings.
This pipe dream will occur before 1/20/2009.
No doubt about it.
But I could be wrong ! and in this case I sincerely hope I am - but I'm not holding my breath.
"More than 50% of the world's remaining conventional oil is found in just five countries: Saudi Arabia (our 'eternal friend',) Iran, Iraq (illegally US occupied,) Kuwait (our other eternal friend,) and the United Arab Emirates (new home of Halliburton's KBR headquarters.)"
IOW, Iran is the only country "we" do not own/control yet. Purely coincidental, naturally.
"In 1991, Sen. Chuck Robb was one of a handful of Democratic senators to support authorizing the use of force to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait."
Again, coincidence.
Dan Coats was a lawyer/lobbyist for Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, MacPherson and Hand, along with Elliot Abrams, Bob Dole, with a who's who of Big Corp clients including BP.
There are just so many damn coincidences in politics nowadays...
And when oil SHOOTS back up to even beyond $150/barrel, nobody will be able to declare war on Iran !
Let's put 2 and 2 together. Take the gist of this article, and combine it with this WSWS article from yesterday, titled What 'incredibly tough' foreign policy actions is Obama preparing?" That latter piece analyzes the ominous implications of Biden's remarks to well-heeled Democratic donors in Seattle last weekend. Consider also Obama's groveling before AIPAC in June, & Biden's staunch pro-Israel credentials. Realize that this last weekend, both Colin Powell & the sickeningly pro-war Washington Post both endorsed Obama.
There would be a certain irony if the first major foreign policy action of the Obama administration were a strike on Iran's alleged "nuclear sites," no?
You would think that after reading this, light bulbs would come on over the heads of even the most loyal Democrats and Republicans but sadly, I have learned to expect otherwise.
hey, florida is in play this year...no light bulbs will be coming on for loyal dems