Next target Tehran (Guardian)

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All the signs are that Bush is planning for a neocon-inspired military assault on Iran

Dan Plesch
Monday January 15, 2007
The Guardian

The evidence is building up that President Bush plans to add war on Iran to his triumphs in Iraq and Afghanistan - and there is every sign, to judge by his extraordinary warmongering speech in Plymouth on Friday, that Tony Blair would be keen to join him if he were still in a position to commit British forces to the field.

"There's a strong sense in the upper echelons of the White House that Iran is going to surface relatively quickly as a major issue - in the country and the world - in a very acute way," said NBC TV's Tim Russert after meeting the president. This is borne out by the fact that Bush has sent forces to the Gulf that are irrelevant to fighting the Iraqi insurgents. These include Patriot anti-missile missiles, an aircraft carrier, and cruise-missile-firing ships ...

Having been given so much advice on what to do in Iraq - most notably by the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group - the president went with the recommendations of the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI). So much for the idea that the Iraq debacle marginalised the neocons ...

Donald Rumsfeld and the AEI have developed a strategy for regime change in Iran that does not involve a ground invasion. Weapons of mass destruction will provide the rationale for military action, though it won't be limited to attacks on a few weapons factories. It will include limiting Iranian retaliatory capability, using bombers to destroy up to 10,000 targets in the first day of any war, and special forces flying in to destroy anything that's left ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1990463,00.html

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1. Bush's war is becoming Dick Cheney's holocaust....

...Dick Cheney a thug representing the Anglo-Dutch imperial synargist bankers

[Briar]

2. So, now the US plots its own Pearl Harbour

What an evil regime.

[depakid]

3. I have a difficult time believing that even Bush could be so stupid

Then again- little that these ideologues say or do would surprise me, especially since everyone except that sorry little sniveler Joe Lieberman seems intent on holding the far right accountable for at least some of the myriad lies and corruption.

This would be one way to keep all that out of the press- and i'm sure the corporate media would be MORE than happy to oblige- and we can surely expect that they'll egg this on.