Bombs Away?

[katty]

more: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18809.htm

Bombs Away?

Arms expert Scott Ritter says the U.S. plans to attack Iran. MT asks why he's so sure.

By Curt Guyette and W. Kim Heron

11/30/07 "Metro Times" -- - - It seems that with each passing week there are more stories raising the specter of George Bush turning Iraq and Afghanistan into a bloody trifecta by attacking Iran.

In mainstream daily papers we see pieces like one by Gannett's John Yaukey, who wrote in early November that "confrontation could be near" because "Iran continues to taunt the United States with its aggressive posturing in Iraq and Lebanon while pushing ahead with its nuclear research ..."

We are also witnessing what appears to be a chilling rerun of the Iraq debacle. Confronted with evidence that calls into question the status of Iran's nuclear program, the Bush administration is shifting its rhetoric.

"The Bush administration has charged that Iran is funding anti-American fighters in Iraq and sending in sophisticated explosives to bleed the U.S. mission, although some of the administration's charges are disputed by Iraqis as well as the Iranians," the Los Angeles Times reported in October. "Still, ... diplomatic and military officials say they fear that the overreaching of a confident Iran, combined with growing U.S. frustrations, could set off a dangerous collision."

Look beyond daily papers — from Seymour Hersh's reporting in The New Yorker to articles in The Nation — and the picture emerges of an administration that is determined to attack Iran.

[BayouBengal07]

1. This is ridiculous

"confrontation could be near" because "Iran continues to taunt the United States with its aggressive posturing in Iraq and Lebanon while pushing ahead with its nuclear research ..."

And? Back in the Cold War we survived the threat of nuclear winter for 50 years because we were able to look past and if need be counter the USSR's "aggressive posturing" without firing a shot.

"The Bush administration has charged that Iran is funding anti-American fighters in Iraq and sending in sophisticated explosives to bleed the U.S. mission"

Like we did in Afghanistan in the 1980s?

Even Reagan knew when NOT to pull the trigger. These guys are like parodies of the paranoid, machismo modern Conservative movement.

[LakeSamish706]

2. And if this moron makes the serious mistake of attacking Iran....

this will be the stupidest thing that they will have done to date! I predict that this will be the single one thing in history that will ultimately lead to the complete downfall of the United States of America..... JMHO... We will wait and see.

[katty]

3. stupid and horrific - that's why Biden/others should keep

the dialogue going about Impeach if Iran attack--wish it were today, but this dialogue has to be front & center everyday.

[balantz]

4. We all know

if the war pigs are bent on doing it (and they are) then they will continue to antagonize the Iranians and war will be launched. We are helpless to change this path without the support of Congress to aggressively pursue impeachment. It looks as though Congress is hunkering down in their little manholes and putting their helmets on and going along for the ride, taking the world with them. I don't have words to illustrate my disappointment in these actions. I would at least like to have a full explanation from them, but they give us owl eyes and silence and we are left in the dark awaiting the slide into unspeakable horrors further down in the warmongers' bottomless pit of chaos and destruction. I know I'm not alone in this feeling of helplessness.