How do you get Americans to support a war with Iran that has been on the agenda for neocons like Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney?
If the right wing-- Republicans, religious extremists, the military industrial complex, top 1% tax avoiders, Transnational globalist corporations-- are going to have any chance of holding on to the congress, the war has to heat up, fear has to build and Karl Rove MUST have new material to use for his fear, terrorism, hold-the-course talking points.
How do you get Americans to support a war with Iran that has been on the agenda for neocons like Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney?
If the right wing-- Republicans, religious extremists, the military industrial complex, top 1% tax avoiders, Transnational globalist corporations-- are going to have any chance of holding on to the congress, the war has to heat up, fear has to build and Karl Rove MUST have new material to use for his fear, terrorism, hold-the-course talking points.
Create a conflagration that is started in Israel Palestine that spreads.
Get the mainstream media to report over and over again the connection between Hezbollah and Syria and Hezbollah and Iran.
Do nothing about Israel's escalations of violence in Gaza and Lebanon.
Show loads of images of bombs exploding and fires burning. Fan the flames of fear.
Intimidate spineless democratic legislators into silence by making the attack on Iran about protecting Israel. It takes so little to cow the current herd of invertebrate democrats.
There are 36% of the population who will support any atrocities Bush does. Misguided patriots, trusting fools and misguided supporters of Israel will also be easy marks for the propaganda that is really spewing by now. Get them lathered up and excited.
In the media, forget about any kind of balance among the talking head pundits-- just use red-meat war hawks who emphasize the links between terrorists and Iran, terrorists and syria, and build the tacit and implicit suggestion that Iran is to blame, Iran is the cause of the chaos, Iran is the danger, Iran is.... the target we should be focusing upon.
Get the well-trained and tamed mainstream media to ignore the growing discussion on how deer-in-the-headlights clueless and incompetent Bush is coming across.
Get the well-trained and tamed mainstream media to avoid discussing how, in the past, American presidents were able to use the power of the US to influence Israel in these times, but that Bush and the republican leadership have lost that power, by failing to take a tough love approach with Israel as past presidents have done, and by their general failure to function competently (beyond the idiot level, really) in foreign policy and diplomacy.
Get the well-trained and tamed mainstream media to totally ignore the clear reality that full blown civil war has erupted in Iraq, that Bush's vision of a greater, better Iraq is in the toilet.
Get the well-trained and tamed mainstream media to totally ignore the fact that Bush's talk and efforts to produce democracy in the middle east is not working, that Democracy and terrorism, democracy and Islamic extremist groups wanting Shariah to replace democratic law do not work.
And let's not forget that Bush and the right wing have been getting help from Iran. Why would Iran support an attack? Because they know the US can't win, but that by becoming the next victim of US aggression, it will bolster it's power and influence in the Arab world. Luring the US to attack Iran is a strategy that will weaken even further the USA's dwindling street credibility in ALL the world's capitols. Iran will also use all the drumbeats of war to build its own support base among younger Iranians who, like their right wing American counterparts, use the talk of war as a kind of Viagra, making them feel more like men.
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skyreader7 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 181 comments)
on Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 2:04:29 PM
I saw that as soon as the IsraeL conflict started to heat up, the right wing started to point fingers at Iran. This is what they always do. With Latin America turning away from NAFTA and other trade agreements they are pointing fingers at Venezuela, Cuba and Peru. Would it surprise you if you found out that there are 100,000 U.S. Troops in Paraguay. Wake up "People." What the corporations can't control, this administration will help them get it.
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Ron McCallie (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 74 comments)
on Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 6:26:18 PM
How to use Middle East Conflict to Sell War with Iran..
Rob Kall, You Know you are Right on the Mark ! This War Israel has Started is One that Israel Wanted To Get Bush TO FIRE the FIRST SHOT ! But between The "TWO... leaders ?' They Decided who Goes First..By Drawing Straws ! That is when Bush drew the Short one.( All Rigged...Because Both Straws were Short!) How do I figure THat ? Simple. Bush WANTS war with Iran, but he Knows he does Not have the American Public behind him in any manner >>And Neither does he Have one Ally Behind him. BUT... For Israel to Jump in and Attack Lebanon () On Such trumped - up Charges as ''TWO of our brave Israeli soldiers were Abducted >>And They Refuse to Give them back to us ..if We Don't release a few prisoners who, (most of which are Women and children we are Holding)....AND we refuse to deal with such Blackmailers! Therefor We are Forced to Declare WAr against Lebanon and Kill A whole Lot Of Their Innocent Ones To get this War on the ROAD !! ( Bet you there were a couple of "Secret 'Conversations Made while there, in person.. But had nothing to do with Baghdad ! ) So, Here & Now we have the True Results Reining down on Beirut This Very Moment. And IS Bush going to GET to Pull his Little WAR action out of his secret place.. After all, WE know time is running out for him. A serious turn-over in Congress is Just Weeks away..And He can't afford to Wait for THAT to occur ! But Congress Now has to prove to the American People Just What They Are really made of..Before This Voting takes First Place ! People, Keep your Eyes open.. K ROVE is Wheeling And Dealing with All of his Pudgy might ! Is Congress going to Stand up and Be counted on the Side of The Peoples' wishes...or again for That WAR-Mongering Cabel they are Serving ...instead of THeir Constituents who voted them in to serve The Peoples' needs?? They can be voted out easier than they were voted in ( If God takes Charge of all those Crooked Voting machines we have had to contend with over the Last Two General Elections !! I think I have about Covered It. A Flat 'No ' from Congress to Bush... 'No War with Iran.' VGF
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VGFlick (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 76 comments)
on Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 9:10:09 PM
The strategy is clear and correct, there is only one thing that we need to understand and that is what the final plan is. The final plan is total planet wide nuclear war to destroy the mass of the human race. They don't like to talk about this because they know that you may not want to hear about it.
This total all out nuclear war is scheduled to happen by "Accident" when this Middle East conflict "Accidentally" gets out of hand.
Our nuclear war criminals decided long ago to extirpate the human race. The "Master" plan is still in effect and they are hoping to get the nuclear immolation of us completed before we wake up and kill them all.
The "Master" class is using Israel to trigger the trap that has been set already.
The "Master" class installed this ancient tribe of genocidal cannibals into the Mid East as a method to assert mind control upon the cult and trigger a form of "Terrain Consciousness," that requires a life and death struggle do to the resource starved environment, in the members of this ancient Desert dwelling cannibal cult.
The harsh resource starved desert environment has reawakened their ancient genocidal cannibal instincts.
This human predator group behaviour being demonstrated by Israelis, is a form of "Animal Primitivism."
Americans are scheduled to be totally destroyed in a nuclear war. Armageddon is the plan, that is, where they all hide and we all die. Proving once and for All that they indeed are "Superior" to us.
The Israelis are now all hiding in their underground bomb and blast shelters. As Americans we need to ask ourselves, "Where are we going to hide when the nuclear rockets fly?"
For those of you who are not yet convinced that this group of nuclear armed band of genocidal cannibals has actually pulled the nuclear trigger on us, not once, but several times, may I recommend that you use your search engine and read up on the "Disaster at Silo 7" that occurred on September 18, 1980. This was an attempt to loft a 10 megaton warhead upon the Russians, to get the big one underway.
This helps to explain why our nuclear war criminals in Washington, London and Tel Aviv are always smirking about their terrorist crimes against humanity. They quite frankly don't give a Damn what any stupid idiot American thinks or says: they are going to go ahead and destroy us all, as they Damn well please.
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Patrick (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 401 comments)
on Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 9:34:06 PM
It's not just the US that is being hood winked. The BBC news today was dominated by Lebanon and Israel..then, at the very end, a short piece saying a Brit soldier was killed in Iraq.
We will urge restraint ..as if we are giving any sort of example to anyone.
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Hamish (45 articles, 0 quicklinks, 68 diaries, 210 comments)
on Sunday, July 16, 2006 at 7:23:50 AM
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich says America is in World War III and President Bush should say so.
Gingrich said in an interview Saturday that Bush should call a joint session of Congress the first week of September and talk about global military conflicts in much starker terms than have been heard from the president.
"We need to have the militancy that says 'We're not going to lose a city, " Gingrich said.
Gingrich said in the coming days he plans to speak out publicly and to the administration from his seat on the Defense Policy Board about the need to recognize that America is in World War III.
He lists wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, last week's bomb attacks in India, North Korean nuclear threats, terrorist arrests and investigations in Florida, Canada and Britain, and violence in Israel and Lebanon as evidence of World War III.
He said Bush needs to deliver a speech to Congress and "connect all the dots" for Americans.
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Runner (9 articles, 34 quicklinks, 47 diaries, 33 comments)
on Sunday, July 16, 2006 at 3:59:27 PM
There's no question the world's woes are to a large extent at the feet of the U.S. government. Israel is a client state, and wouldn't dare get so extreme without our "blessing."
And there is no question the citizenry is beginning to react, if painfully slow.
It all happens in November. We don't need two more years of this...
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Jim Prues (15 articles, 33 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 73 comments)
on Sunday, July 16, 2006 at 10:18:00 PM
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