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Bush Setting America up for War with Iran. Submitted by Marcus on Sun, 2007-09-16 10:33.
The Daily Telegraph has an article out on new details of planned US air strikes against Iran. I don't know enough about it to tell whether this is really NEWS or just SPECULATION. I have heard this type of story before usually followed by just more stalling diplomacy. Is it for real this time? Maybe someone here can tell us. Bush setting America up for war with Iran Senior American intelligence and defence officials believe that President George W Bush and his inner circle are taking steps to place America on the path to war with Iran, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. Pentagon planners have developed a list of up to 2,000 bombing targets in Iran, amid growing fears among serving officers that diplomatic efforts to slow Iran's nuclear weapons programme are doomed to fail. Pentagon and CIA officers say they believe that the White House has begun a carefully calibrated programme of escalation that could lead to a military showdown with Iran. Now it has emerged that Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, who has been pushing for a diplomatic solution, is prepared to settle her differences with Vice-President Dick Cheney and sanction military action. In a chilling scenario of how war might come, a senior intelligence officer warned that public denunciation of Iranian meddling in Iraq - arming and training militants - would lead to cross border raids on Iranian training camps and bomb factories. prime target would be the Fajr base run by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds Force in southern Iran, where Western intelligence agencies say armour-piercing projectiles used against British and US troops are manufactured. Under the theory - which is gaining credence in Washington security circles - US action would provoke a major Iranian response, perhaps in the form of moves to cut off Gulf oil supplies, providing a trigger for air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities and even its armed forces. Senior officials believe Mr Bush's inner circle has decided he does not want to leave office without first ensuring that Iran is not capable of developing a nuclear weapon. Bush setting America up for war with Iran.
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6 & 1/2 years in...
...and has the spread of Islam (Islam, and not Al Qaeda in Iraq, being the threat) slowed? Nope!
6 & 1/2 years in...
...and some Objectivists still think Bush is going to do something about Iran?
Exactly what kind of drugs are you people taking?
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UN's nuclear agency today warned against increasing "hype"...
...towards war with Iran.
Looks like the usual suspects are getting worried.
"UN nuclear boss warns warmongers over Iran.
· ElBaradei calls for need to heed lessons from Iraq
· French foreign minister says world must brace for war
· Iranian president talks of peace with US
Peter Walker, Mark Tran and agencies
Monday September 17, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
The head of the UN's nuclear agency today warned against increasing "hype" towards war with Iran, saying countries should heed the lessons of the build-up to the Iraq conflict.
The strongly worded comments by Mohamed ElBaradei, who leads the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), follow a warning by the French foreign minister that the world should brace itself for a possible war with Iran.
"We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war," Bernard Kouchner told French TV and radio.
While talks over Iran's controversial nuclear programme should continue "right to the end", Mr Kouchner said, an Iranian nuclear weapon would pose "a real danger for the whole world". Under President Nicolas Sarkozy, France has taken a much harsher line towards Iran than under Jacques Chirac.
In a perceived riposte to the comments, Mr ElBaradei urged caution. "We need to be cool," he told reporters at the IAEA's annual conference in Vienna. "We need not to hype the issue".
"I would not talk about any use of force," he said. "There are rules on how to use force, and I would hope that everybody would have gotten the lesson after the Iraq situation, where 70,000 innocent civilians have lost their lives on the suspicion that a country has nuclear weapons."
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Separately, however, the country's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said he wanted peace and friendship with Washington, despite mounting speculation over possible US strikes.
"Our message to the American nation is a message of peace, friendship, brotherhood and respect for humans," the official IRNA news agency quoted Mr Ahmadinejad as saying on the state-owned Jame Jam television network yesterday.
Mr Ahmadinejad also called on the US to leave Iraq, saying its presence was proof that Washington wanted to plunder Iraqi resources.
An Israeli air strike against a mystery site in northern Syria last week fuelled speculation that the sortie had been a dry run for a US-Israeli attack on Syria and Iran.
The Israeli government imposed a news blackout on the September 6 raid, but leaks to foreign newspapers said eight Israeli F-15 bombers attacked what was believed to be a nuclear installation in Syria.
If the reports are true, it would be Israel's most audacious air strike since the 1981 attack on Saddam Hussein's Osirak reactor.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2171099,00.html
internal affairs
It'd be nice if the counter-culture Iranian students had the wherewithal to start up an internal revolution against the Shah and his cronies. But, like tiananmen square I just don't think they have the numbers to win, much less the philosophy required to know what they are fighting for. USA, it's time to flex some muscle and send the Shah and his Islamists to their vestal virgins.
Awesome
Just what we need.. more poorly funded, poorly executed war efforts with a nation harbouring nuclear technology. Goody.
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