And the war against Iran is just about set to start

[GreenPartyVoter]

Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld's interest in Azerbaijan may have escaped the blinkered Western media, but Russia and the Caucasus nations understand only too well that the die has been cast regarding Azerbaijan's role in the upcoming war with Iran.

The ethnic links between the Azeri of northern Iran and Azerbaijan were long exploited by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and this vehicle for internal manipulation has been seized upon by CIA paramilitary operatives and US Special Operations units who are training with Azerbaijan forces to form special units capable of operating inside Iran for the purpose of intelligence gathering, direct action, and mobilising indigenous opposition to the Mullahs in Tehran.

But this is only one use the US has planned for Azerbaijan. American military aircraft, operating from forward bases in Azerbaijan, will have a much shorter distance to fly when striking targets in and around Tehran.

In fact, US air power should be able to maintain a nearly 24-hour a day presence over Tehran airspace once military hostilities commence.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0620-31.htm

[Last Lemming]

1. Wake up guy

it's already going

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Well WE know that.. but Joe Q Public is still clueless. They don't know

that the recent explosions over there had anything to do with us. And most don't know that our Special ops teams have been on the ground there for months.

[acmavm]

4. That's what I was going to point out. These guys attack months before

they publically announce that we're at war.

I have a feeling that very soon a lot of young and not-so-young people are gonna be getting an all expense paid trip to the Middle East. And it will not be luxury accommodations.

[justinsb]

2. Another Anti-War petition

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?NWinIran

[damntexdem]

6. Only 8691 signatures so far.

A few more are needed.

[damntexdem]

5. Yeah, it all looks like it. Just one question:

what are they going to do for troops?

Seems like it might be a rather limited invasion without troops.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Salvation Army and the Boy Scouts are still available

[jojo54]

7. Do people really think CCB is going to get the go ahead

for another war? O.K. most Dems are laying low on Iraq but they are now gun shy, along with a lot of Repugs. CCB just asked for another $84B and it's not coming so easy this time. People are getting skeptical about Iraq, with the media FINALLY starting to spread some info about the DSM and now this guy Jones (I think?) jumping on the "exit strategy" bandwagon.

I just think the next so called war is going to be a very hard sell IMHO, unless CCB himself directly cooks up the "first strike".

[Last Lemming]

8. They are already there

with troops in Uzbekastan

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. I think I missed something.

What is the CCB abbreviation? Shorthand for CookooBananas?

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. That's COMANDER CuckooBananas to you

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. Whoops! My bad!

LOL.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. ;^D