The Next Phase of the Middle East War (Iran)( PLeaseREAD!)

[snappyturtle]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20060904&articleID-3147

(Click on "ticker tape" Iran:The Next War; scroll down page to Featured articles and click on title in subject line of this post---sorry---best I can do!)

The Second 9-11

"The economic and political dislocations resulting from this military agenda are far-reaching.

If the attacks directed against Iran and Syria were to proceed, martial law and/or a state of emergency could be declared in the US and possibly Britain on the pretext that the homeland is under attack by Iran sponsored terrorists. The purpose of these measures would essentially be to curb the antiwar movement and provide legitimacy to an illegal war.

The Pentagon has intimated in this regard, in an official statement, that "another <9/11> attack could create both a justification and an opportunity to retaliate against some known targets ". In a timely statement, barely a few days following the onslaught of the bombing of Lebanon, Vice President Cheney reiterated his warning: "The enemy that struck on 9/11 is fractured and weakened, yet still lethal, still determined to hit us again" (Waterloo Courier, Iowa, 19 July 2006, italics added)."

This is a l-o-n-g article (this particular quote is way ....down the page) and it scares me half to death along with the "good" news today I read about the aftermath of the bubble burst of the housing boom, I think we're in for big trouble. Sorry....but knowledge helps us to prepare for the future.

[tocqueville]

1. try this link, but the article is very discussable....

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20060904&articleId=3147

sorry but I don'y buy this story starting with the European UN troops "working for the US and Israel". You can find exactly the same kind of BS in the Israeli Debka file (a Mossad disinformation site).

France that was (is) the leading force in the stopping of the Lebanon war, did it to stop Israeli plans to go further. If the Europeans have twisted Annan's arm to obtain the possibility of heavy weaponry in the area (Annan required today a naval backup from France, I bet the French carrier will soon show up) it's because they want to calm down the area and not to inflame it. Among the French equipment sent are modern tanks, anti missile radars, anti aircraft artillery (missiles) and heavy artillery. If you add the fire power of the Aster missiles and the SCALP cruise missiles on the two French frigates, the conclusion is that all that neat weaponry is not aimed at the Hezbollah. It's more a deterrent to Israel. Besides Europe is stopping the transport of modern weaponry to Israel right now by refusing to refuel El Al planes. It includes even the UK.

Prodi and Zapatero are not working for Bush, neither is Chirac. I think they try to counter, what they can counter.

I don't deny that Israel/US are probably planning a strike at Syria/Iran, but the author should'nt fall in the common trotskyite rethoric "all capitalists are bad". This is not science and analysis, it's rethorics fitting the rest of the article.

So it makes it more difficult for me to take the whole article as a correct description of evolving events.

And you don't have to put the anti-war movement in the US in camps through martial law, because this movement doesn't exist. Cm'on if the anti-war movement could gather the same amount (in percent) of people than a pissed off French union for a pure unionist matter, you'd had about 5 millions Americans in front of the Capitol 4 weeks in a row, every Sunday.

[snappyturtle]

2. I thank you for your thoughtful response....

I guess I should take into account that the author is a Canadian economist and anti-war advocate.....you know things are so bizarre today that almost anything is possible so...........again thanks for your input! I'll watch for the France's "input"!

[tocqueville]

3. just updated nt