Is the Obama administration trying to gin up a war with Iran?

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Wed Oct-12-11 02:30 PM
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Is the Obama administration trying to gin up a war with Iran?

For those of you who aren't aware of it, a plot was uncovered by the US. This plot involved the rather convoluted plan to hire Mexican drug cartel killers to go after the Saudi ambassador in DC. Supposedly the Iranian suspects went down to Mexico in order to talk to these drug cartel members(what, there's a home office?) and wound up talking to a paid US informant instead.

Well, you know as well as I do how things go when you talk to a paid US informant, you are screwed. These people take your vague wishful thinking and turn it into a full fledged entrapment plot designed to make you look like the next imminent threat, when in reality if left alone you would have gone home and done nothing.

That is what this incident is sounding like more and more. Yet since it involves Iran, Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State and biggest beater of drums for an Iranian war, has taken it upon herself to get the juices flowing again, trying to get us into an Iranian war.

"The US secretary of state has called for a "very strong message" to be sent to Iran, after allegations of a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US.

Hillary Clinton said Washington was preparing new penalties against Iran, which is already subject to a variety of international sanctions."
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15269348>

And now she escalates it up another notch, calling for international action against Iran over this incident.
"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling an alleged Iranian plot to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States a "dangerous escalation" in Iran's support for terrorism that must draw an international response.

Speaking to a conference in Washington on Wednesday, Clinton urged the rest of the world to join Washington in condemning the alleged scheme, which she said violated U.S. and international law as well as Iran's treaty obligations to protect diplomats. She said the plot was a "reckless act" that "undermines international norms and the international system" and that Iran must be held accountable for its actions."
<http://www.theskanner.com/article/Clinton-Plot-to-Kill-Saudi-Ambassador-a-Dangerous-Escalation-by-Iran-2011-10-12>

Now remember, this is the same Hillary Clinton who, in 2008, called for the http://www.theskanner.com/article/Clinton-Plot-to-Kill-Saudi-Ambassador-a-Dangerous-Escalation-by-Iran-2011-10-12">potential obliteration of Iran. In fact Hillary has beat the drums of war with Iran for years now, and one can't help but think that this is another in a long line of ginned up reasons for the US to try and force war upon Iran.

Is that time coming soon? With the Iraq war winding down, as well as our military involvement in Libya dying out, is the MIC demanding another conflict with which to make massive profit on? Have the lure of vast Iranian natural and strategic resources finally lit the match which will lead to another imperial war, this time with Iran?

I don't know, but all this hoopla over a very suspicious incident does make me think that war with Iran is getting close. Another war that we can't afford, another war that will suck us dry and leave us for dead.

What a sad, shameful way for this country to go.