Risking the Ultimate Blowback: Don't Blitz Iran

The consequences for the US and the rest of the world will be terrible. Lots of people will die, but since that is irrelevant to Bush zealots in any context there is no point in examining their plans from the perspectives of morality or international law.

An April LA Times' poll showed that 48 per cent of Americans want war on Iran, while only 40 don't, when answering the question "If Iran continued to produce material that can be used to develop nuclear weapons, would you support or oppose military action?" They've been brainwashed, just like the millions who still believe Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9-11, and the Washington mind-benders are licking their lips.

Notification of the 'Divine Strake' quasi-nuclear test in June may have been designed in part to frighten Iran's government out of continuing its nuclear program, but its purpose was officially advertised as improvement of "warfighters' confidence in their ability to plan to defeat hardened and deeply buried targets". Don't you love the word "defeat"? What they mean, in their absurd and savage jargon, is "obliterate by nuclear bomb". And if they were anything but bloody-minded barbaric humbugs they would say so. With their fingers poised on the buttons of seven thousand US nukes they trot out fatuous phrases like "weapons of mass destruction" which would reduce us all to fits of laughter if the purpose of these fanatics was not so evil.

The psychos intend to destroy the Iranian government, and it will take a near-miracle for their planned onslaught to be cancelled. They do not care about what will happen after they blitz the place with their bunker-busters and all the other demented video-game whizzery at their disposal. The word 'strake' is meaningless in hi-technology language, but preceded by 'Divine' it conveys exactly, crudely and brutally, what is intended : Watch out, Islamic nations : the Crusaders are going to get you.

Iran recently tested four items of antique military technology. The missiles and torpedoes it fired off so publicly are about the standard of weapons that the US had 30-40 years ago. But this does not mean to say they won't be effective in achieving the immediate aims of Iran's leaders if their country is attacked.

If the US attacks Iran the Tehran government

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