The conventional wisdom inside the Beltway is that the Administration now no longer can feel free to launch an attack on Iran. But CheneyBush for the past seven years have demonstrated time and time again that they want what they want and that they will move to get what they want despite what anybody else thinks or does.
What they want before a new president is inauguarated in January 2009 is to wipe out Iran's weapons capabilities, nuclear and conventional, at the very least setting back that country's geopolitical ambitions in the Greater Middle East for at least a decade or two. During this hiatus, presumably Iraq and other regional countries can be built up as buffers against Iranian influence.
While it's true that Iran may have dodged an imminent bullet as a result of the NIE findings, CheneyBush are desperately looking for some way to justify an attack on Iran -- or, if they don't initiate it themselves, will support a massive bombing from the air by their regional ally Israel.-
CheneyBush's operational tactic at the moment is to try to get American citizens enraged at the Iranians for smuggling explosives in large quantities into Iraq (which may or may not be true), which wind up killing U.S. troops. On a second track, CheneyBush will try provoking Iran into some deadly overt act that would require a robust military response by the U.S.
In short, friends, the final year of CheneyBush in power, unless they are impeached and removed soon, is going to be filled with even more such reckless, dangerous initiatives abroad, and continued degradation of our democracy and Constitution at home. Fasten your seatbelts; we're all in for a helleva bumpy 2008. #
Bernard Weiner, Ph.D. in government & international relations, has taught at universities in California and Washington, worked as a writer/editor at the San Francisco Chronicle for two decades, and serves as co-editor of The Crisis Papers (www.crisispapers.org). To comment: crisispapers@comcast.net .
First published by The Crisis Papers and Democratic Underground 12/11/07.
Bernard Weiner, Ph.D. in government & international relations, has taught at universities in California and Washington, worked for two decades as a writer-editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, and currently serves as co-editor of The Crisis Papers (www.crisispapers.org).
NeoCon war mongering would have sacrificed many lives
Michael E. Salla, M.A., Ph.D. posted an well-researched article titled, The Neoconservative Agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet, The New Pearl Harbor in which he reports on the Iranian anti-ship missiles in the Persian Gulf and on the Pentagon war games planning that showed that the entire Fifth Fleet stationed in the Gulf would be completely vulnerable to attack. Reportedly current missile technology provided to Iran by the Russians and the Chinese could sink the entire US fleet in the Persian Gulf!
The article is well-researched with many links. The information is alarming to say the least, but equally horrifying is the prospect that Bush-Cheney Administration would be willing to sacrifice all our ships in the Gulf for the political advantages given by rallying unknowing Americans in another poorly justified, cooked up war of aggression.
Another nagging question for me that is very likely related to the war mongering: Who gave the orders to move nuclear cruise missiles from Minot AFB to Barksdale AFB (the staging air force base for the Middle East theater of operations)? Ref: "News of B-52 Nukes Leaked by Personnel Opposed to Attack on Iran" Those "tactical" variable yield nuclear weapons could have been used as another false flag terror attack.
These NeoCon war mongers must be stopped before they commit any more atrocities.
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Tim Riley (7 articles, 5 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 132 comments)
on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 7:16:12 PM
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