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"President George W. Bush has told the Israeli government that he may be prepared to approve a future military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities if negotiations with Tehran break down, according to a senior Pentagon official.
"Despite the opposition of his own generals and widespread skepticism that America is ready to risk the military, political, and economic consequences of an airborne strike on Iran, the president has given an 'amber light' to an Israeli plan to attack Iran's main nuclear sites with long-range bombing sorties, the official told The Sunday Times.
"'Amber means get on with your preparations, stand by for immediate attack, and tell us when you're ready,' the official said. But the Israelis have also been told that they can expect no help from American forces and will not be able to use U.S. military bases in Iraq for logistical support."
Quoted in support of this lunacy was think tanker Kenneth Katzman:
Among the sceptics is Kenneth Katzman, a former CIA analyst and author of a book on the Revolutionary Guard. “I don’t subscribe to the view that Iran is in a position to inflict devastating damage on anyone,” said Katzman, who is best known for warning shortly before 9/11 that terrorists were planning to attack America.
“The Revolutionary Guards have always underperformed militarily,” he said. “Their equipment is quite inaccurate if not outright inoperable. Those missile launches were more like putting up a ‘beware of the dog’ sign. They want everyone to think that if you mess with them, you will get bitten.”
The neocons have been wrong about EVERYTHING – keep this in mind. But what can I say, we are pretty much fucked right about now, the round has been chambered, the barrel pressed to our temples and now George W. Bush is giving the go ahead for the trigger to be pulled. I would also recommend reading Justin Raimondo’s piece on the great Antiwar.com today entitled Amber Alert:
The Israelis, in concert with their amen corner in the U.S., have been engaged in a propaganda blitz targeting Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program, the whole point of which is not to pressure the Iranians into backing down, but to force the U.S. to take action in lieu of the Israelis going it alone. Why fight if your big brother is willing to wage the battle? To that end, the Israelis are taking aim at Washington, rather than Tehran, in a full-scale political assault that shows every sign of succeeding where it counts – in the Oval Office. The Times cites a top Pentagon official:
"It's really all down to the Israelis. This administration will not attack Iran. This has already been decided. But the president is really preoccupied with the nuclear threat against Israel and I know he doesn't believe that anything but force will deter Iran."
Translation: The U.S. will not be the first to attack Iran, but it may well join in once the Israelis get things started. Laura Rozen, writing in Mother Jones, reports that a parade of Israeli officials – including Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi – is due in Washington over the next two weeks to impress upon the Americans the urgent necessity of taking military action. Rozen spoke to neocon superhawk David Wurmser, former adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney on Middle Eastern affairs, who said:
"'Ultimately, my gut tells me that most of the administration on most levels would push back very hard,' on Israeli pressure on Washington to authorize it to strike Iran, Wurmser added. 'What those in the administration who don't want Israel to act probably won't want is for it to be taken to the highest level. They would always be afraid that [the president] might not be so tough on the Israelis. If the Israeli [government] really intends to do something, they would go to the highest level without a lot of people knowing.'"
They may have gotten to the president already, as Rozen reports:
"A former Pentagon intelligence official who spoke with Mother Jones also alleges that Meir Dagan, the chief of the Israeli intelligence service, the Mossad, held secret meetings with officials in the White House on Wednesday. Neither the Israeli embassy nor National Security Council would comment on whether Dagan had been at the White House."
This is really the crux of the matter: George W. Bush. Reckless, more radical than most of his advisers, and now dangerously fixated on his "legacy," he is more determined than ever to leave his lasting mark on the Middle East and the world – and, given that the Constitution has been abandoned, and a single man can take us to war without the consent of Congress or the people, an apocalyptic departure from office seems more likely than not.
As I put forth in my previous piece 9/11: Cover For A Coup D'Etat I believe that the 'terrorist' attacks weren't even the greatest crime of that particular day. Rather I believe that there is enough circumstantial evidence to show that an inner circle of deeply embedded neocons and moles used the Edward Luttwak model of a coup d'etat along with the Continuity Of Government (COG) infrastructure to put into place a rogue government here in the Homeland and to allow for the implementation of the PNAC/Clean Break neocon doctrine for seizing control of the Middle East and ultimately encircling Russia. This cabal then used their embeds in the media and their controlled/compromised Congress to radically overhaul the laws in the U.S. in order to surveil, torture and lay the groundwork for martial law via NSPD 51 if it became necessary. The winged monkey shock troops of the easily manipulated Left Behind crowd would provide cover as they cheered the coming apocalypse so they can fly naked up to sit at the foot of God's throne while watching the carnage of those who are not cholse as though it were a damned football game.
You just can't make stuff like this up!
Something went wrong afterwards though - the disaster that is Iraq - that knocked the Armageddon Express off track but as yesterday's article in the London Times shows the plan is back on with a near imminent Israeli attack on Iran (which will be joined by the U.S. once Iran retaliates) that is going to open a box of hell and lead to not only WW III but a complete economic collapse with anarchy in the streets when gas prices triple overnight and the entire food distribution system shuts down reducing the majority of the fat and happy population to the unthinkable - a survival level existence.
And nobody is going to do a damned thing to stop it, especially NOT the Democrats nor the national propaganda network in the U.S. media that will be force feeding the world's largest lemming colony Jon Benet Ramsey updates along with the silly Bradgelina twins who for all the adulation showered upon them could be the coming of the messiah.
It's gonna get real ugly real soon folks.
