OpEdNews - Diary: WAR WITH IRAN ON HORIZON

"Heightened Rhetoric, Provocative Acts Show Neocons Want Iran War at Any Cost."

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DIANE'S NEWS CLIPS begins here :)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> WAR WITH IRAN ON HORIZON ... By Michael Collins Piper Heightened Rhetoric, Provocative Acts Show Neocons Want Iran War at Any Cost.

Even as the United States gets mired ever deeper in the bloody and explosive cauldron that has become Iraq, the very forces who were the primary movers behind America's entry into that disaster are now reinvigorating their push to achieve another longtime goal: the destruction of Iran. At the same time, there are some sensible voices of restraint-and perhaps unexpected ones at that-urging that the calls for war be rejected in favor of diplomacy. Although-in the January issue of Vanity Fair, published by Zionist billionaire S.I. Newhouse, a leading financial backer of the Anti-Defamation League and other Israeli lobby front groups-a host of eminent neo-conservative pro-Israel stalwarts went out of their way to deny their culpability in instigating the war against Iraq, which everyone knows they did indeed do, these same elements are now gearing up to promote U.S. military action against Iran. .......................snip..................... Now, in the midst of denying their responsibility for the Iraqi quagmire, the neo-conservatives are openly preparing their propaganda campaign to induce American blood and treasure being deployed against Iran-not only to stop Iran's alleged progress toward nuclear weapons but, as in Iraq, to destroy that nation's current government. In the November/December 2006 issue of Foreign Policy magazine, the small-circulation but highly influential publication of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a leading New World Order "think tank," wellknown neo-conservative publicist Joshua Muravchik is calling for his fellow "neo-cons" to "admit their mistakes . . . and start making the case for bombing Iran." Muravchik-who operates out of the American Enterprise Institute (which includes top neo-conservative mastermind Richard Perle among its chief tacticians)-says that "Make no mistake, President Bush will need to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities before leaving office." He goes on to say to his fellow war-mongers: "We need to pave the way intellectually now and be prepared to defend the action when it comes." Read more > Full article: http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/war_with_iran_.html _________________________________ Carole JEAN, Editor: http://bigpictureworld@yahoo.com "Drums of War and Orchestrated Hysteria about Iran." http://www.TheNewAmericanEmpire.com/tremblay=1055 _________________________________ Excerpted from: http://www.truthout.org Battle for Baghdad: City Braces Itself for US Surge http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012807E.shtml

Lina Massufi, a 32-year-old Iraqi laboratory assistant with two children, is a widow - her husband was killed by US troops when he accidentally drove down a closed road in 2003. In the past three months she has seen her house raided and her furniture smashed twelve times. "Every time they raid my house, they break down the door," she told a UN official. --- Sabrina Tavernise | It Has Unraveled So Quickly http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012807F.shtml Sabrina Tavernise writes, "A painful measure of just how much Iraq has changed in the four years since I started coming here is contained in my cellphone. Many numbers in the address book are for Iraqis who have either fled the country or been killed. One of the first Sunni politicians: gunned down. A Shiite baker: missing. A Sunni family: moved to Syria." --- Army Probes War Contractor Fraud http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012807G.shtml From high-dollar fraud to conspiracy to bribery and bid rigging, Army investigators have opened up to fifty criminal probes involving battlefield contractors in the war in Iraq and the US fight against terrorism. --- Rockefeller Says He May Subpoena Documents on Spying http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012807D.shtml Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller said he may subpoena Bush administration documents on its controversial domestic surveillance program. Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), vowed he'll get details on a secret court's approvals of the program that targets suspected al-Qaeda members in the US. "I don't trust what they're doing," Rockefeller said. --- On Iran, Bush Faces Haunting Echoes of Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012807C.shtml As President Bush and his aides calibrate how directly to confront Iran, they are discovering that both their words and their strategy are haunted by the echoes of four years ago - when their warnings of terrorist activity and nuclear ambitions were clearly a prelude to war. This time, they insist, it is different. --- FOCUS | Hundreds of Thousands of Protesters Converge on Capitol Hill http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012807Z.shtml Hundreds of thousands of protesters converged on the National Mall on Saturday to oppose President Bush's plan for a troop increase in Iraq in what organizers hoped would be one of the largest shows of antiwar sentiment in the nation's capital since the war began. --- Kelpie Wilson | Pirates Stick by Whales http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012807B.shtml Every winter, the Japanese whaling fleet heads to the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica on a mission to kill a thousand whales. Ever since the International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling in 1986, Japan has used a curious rationale for its whaling. It does not kill a thousand whales for commercial purposes. It kills them for scientific research. _________________________________ Excerpted from: http://www.rawstory.com Ex-Cheney Aide Shares Media Manipulation ... By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN WASHINGTON (AP) - A smorgasbord of Washington insider details has emerged during the perjury trial of the vice president's former chief of staff. ..................snip.................... No one served up spicier morsels than Cheney's former top press assistant. Cathie Martin described the craft of media manipulation - under oath and in blunter terms than politicians like to hear in public. Full article: http://snipurl.com/18mf3 _________________________________ .ron corvuswire@verizon.net US military: Afghan leaders steal half of all aid ... By Gethin Chamberlain, Sunday Telegraph Corrupt police and tribal leaders are stealing vast quantities of reconstruction aid that is intended to improve the lives of ordinary Afghans and turn them away from the Taliban, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. ...................snip...................... In some cases, all the aid earmarked for an area has ended up in the wrong hands. Defence officials in the United States and Britain estimate that up to half of all aid in Afghanistan is failing to reach the right people. ...................snip...................... Abdul Ghany, 20, said: "When the soldiers came here they gave things to the rich people. The elders took things for themselves and we received nothing." ...................snip...................... Noor Ullah, a police intelligence officer in the neighbouring Zharey district, said tribal leaders had to be persuaded that the aid was not intended for them alone. At a heated meeting he warned them: "The equipment is not to rebuild your own homes, it is for the mosques and the whole village. It is not for individuals, it is for the community. It is not for you to take and sell it." ...................snip...................... A joint report by the Pentagon and the US state department, circulated to congressional committees last month, concluded that the Afghan police force was corrupt to the point of ineffectiveness. One Pentagon official told The Sunday Telegraph that police officers had stolen and sold at least half of the equipment supplied by the US, including thousands of cars and trucks. [snip] Full Article: http://snipurl.com/18mas _________________________________ Excerpted from: http://onlinejournal.com Everything your denial keeps you from seeing: "Children of Men" By Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. | Online Journal Contributing Writer

Big Brother is watching YOU Director Alfonso Cuaron has adapted P.D. James' 1993 futuristic novel written in the genre of George Orwell into a stunning film that many people will not see -- dare not see, because it depicts the world we all fear we are being catapulted into at lightning speed. That world of the year 2027 is one that folks my age may or may not be around for, but if given the choice, I prefer to pass. http://snipurl.com/18mk7 ----- Dubya's half-billion tower of Babel: Bush's 'truest believers' plan mother of all presidential libraries and conservative think tanks ... By Bill Berkowitz | Online Journal Guest Writer After six years of incompetence and cronyism, a failed war against terrorism, the quagmire that is Iraq, wars against science, the environment, corporate regulation and the public's right-to-know, a chummy working relationship with the country's most reactionary conservative evangelical Christians, a politicized faith-based initiative, giveaways to the energy industry, tax relief for the wealthy, a culture of corruption culminating in the forced resignations and imprisonment of some of the administrations key soldiers, and an attack on fundamental democratic rights and values, the Bush Administration is hatching plans to celebrate itself with a $500 million library (the costliest presidential library ever) to be built after Bush's second term is over. http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1680.shtml ----- Individualism and the dog ... By Iftekhar Sayeed | Online Journal Contributing Writer After the war in Afghanistan, the citizens of the United States, out of the goodness of their hearts, donated 50 precious cents for every Afghan man, woman and child; each animal in the zoo received $10,000. Marjan, the wounded lion, became a celebrity, and died in regal style after his 16 minutes of fame. No stronger evidence of the tendency of Westerners to identify more with animals than with human beings can be adduced by the author. (Except one, perhaps: the fact that the British parliament was passionately debating banning fox-hunting while calmly murdering 1.7 million Iraqi children with sanctions.) http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1668.shtml ----- A fool's errand in Baghdad ... By Mike Whitney | Online Journal Contributing Writer Let's assume for a moment that Dick Cheney is the driving force behind the plan to surge in Iraq. Does anyone really believe that the vice president is genuinely concerned about the safety of the Iraqi people? http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1672.shtml ----- Out of Europe, out of time ... By James Brooks | Online Journal Contributing Writer Prior to the onset of European colonization a century ago, generations of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Palestinians cohabited in the Holy Land with little or no conflict. Zionism's arrival opened a vein of intolerance that eventually grew into a river of bloodshed that flows directly into the sea of violence and chaos gripping the region today. http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1678.shtml _________________________________ http://www.WantToKnow.info/070128bestrevealingnewsarticles US plans to 'fight the net' revealed ... 2006-01-27, BBC News A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations". The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap". It was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act. [snip] http://snipurl.com/18mct _________________________________ Missed? Dept Libby Trial: CIA Briefer For Cheney, Libby Kept Subject Headings For Shredded Briefing Topics Obviously the bogus Niger uranium story, including its aftermath, is but one part of the administration's push to war. But even this one narrow investigative path has led to the undermining of federal agencies, loss of (further) public trust in government and news media, loss of livelihood and possibly worse. http://tinyurl.com/2yplo7 --- By Thomas L. Walsh ... Death To The Constitution In the month of January alone, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales made two shocking decisions that directly attacked the Constitution of the United States. http://tinyurl.com/2ndk6g _________________________________ ( DATELINE WHERE ARE YOU? ) .... TRUE TEACHER STORY Geery lived off the grid for 15 years in an earth-sheltered, solar heated home, while his kids learned in school that solar energy isn't feasible. NAPTA hosts a page on Geery's foibles in education: http://endteacherabuse.org/Geery.html and explains how he got his butt fired from a tenured teaching position. Here's a short clip of most recent solar contraption: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VBTKEPAzvA . His wife claims he's obsessive/ compulsive about his latest airborne project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gANM4lduB-w though he argues he is merely "focused and motivated." Apparently, he's the only one in the world to respond to Osama bin Laden: http://snipurl.com/18l6s call bullshit on him and George together, and expose them for the pansy ass rich kids that they are. 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A George Carlin New Rule for 2007: The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the ass----. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a "decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n'-Low, and one NutraSweet," ooh, you're a huge ass----. _________________________________ Link to: http://Diane's News Clips http://www.opednews.com/author/author2300.html?entry=diary