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Risking the Ultimate Blowback: Don't Blitz Iran
The Bush Administration is preparing for a series of air strikes (or Divine Strakes) on Iran. There is a chance that the Christian fundamentalists of Washington could be persuaded that attacking the country would be insane, but the hard core of loonies will probably win, and there will be yet another war.
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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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
More
http://counterpunch.org/cloughley04152006.html
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I don't think that the bombing of Iran is imminent. Too much has gone wrong in Iraq for any such attack to be made now. It is madness to enlarge a failed war in hopes of improving things as we should have learned when Nixon invaded Cambodia. Remember, too, that war is slaughter. War as such is "war crime."
Iran is so love to have nuclear bombs. So why doesnt the US give them nuclear bombs so they dont have to make them. The US have had enough nuclear bombs to give each and every city of Iran one bomb so that they may know what it is like to have it on their heads.
Leave Iran to Israel
If Iran's possession of nuclear weapons is seen as a destablizing force, let Israel take action. Israel is much closer geographically, and much better informed culturally.
If Israel does not view Iran's actions as an immediate threat that must be countered with a military attack, then there is no reason for the USA to do so either.
Let Israel make the call and do the work. The Bush administration should butt out, and leave the work to more competent leaders who have more of a stake in the outcome.
This is the kind of thinking that is a produc t of the mainstream media. Take note.
Brian, My question on why the U.S. and or Israel would attack Iran simply because they MAY some day in the future develope nuclear weapons is beyond all rational thinking. Actually insanity.
How can ANY country wage a major war on the premise that it is preventing them from developing weapons that they may some day in the future, use against them?
Since when do you declare a major war on a country for what they MAY do in the future? The U.S. has NO concrete evidence that Iran is presently developing nuclear weapons!
And for this they are risking the fate of themselves and plunging the world in a major depression, from which many countries may not survive? For what they MAY do in the future? This is extreme insanity.
What will happen when middle east oil stops? Iran said it will target their own and all other oil fields in their reach. Does anyone know where all the Iranian missiles are? Hidden in numerous countries? Do they know about Iran's hidden chemical arsenal? What about their sleeper agents that flooded the U.S. in the past couple years ? And their sympathizers? They said they will target all areas of opportunity here in the U.S. i.e. malls buses, stores, schools, sport gatherings and dozens of others. What we have here is the collapes of the U.S. economy.
All this because Iran may some day in the future develope nuclear weapons?!
How can ANY country wage a major war on the premise that it is preventing them from developing weapons that they may some day in the future, use against them?
Since when do you declare a major war on a country for what they MAY do in the future? The U.S. has NO concrete evidence that Iran is presently developing nuclear weapons!
And for this they are risking the fate of themselves and plunging the world in a major depression, from which many countries may not survive? For what they MAY do in the future? This is extreme insanity.
What will happen when middle east oil stops? Iran said it will target their own and all other oil fields in their reach. Does anyone know where all the Iranian missiles are? Hidden in numerous countries? Do they know about Iran's hidden chemical arsenal? What about their sleeper agents that flooded the U.S. in the past couple years ? And their sympathizers? They said they will target all areas of opportunity here in the U.S. i.e. malls buses, stores, schools, sport gatherings and dozens of others. What we have here is the collapes of the U.S. economy.
All this because Iran may some day in the future develope nuclear weapons?!
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