secret executive order to start military operations against Syria/Iran

donsu

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Fri Jan-12-07 11:44 AM
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secret executive order to start military operations against Syria/Iran

http://www.discourse.net/archives/2007/01/were_in_trouble.html

Have a look at The Washington Note, whose latest begins like this:

Washington intelligence, military and foreign policy circles are abuzz today with speculation that the President, yesterday or in recent days, sent a secret Executive Order to the Secretary of Defense and to the Director of the CIA to launch military operations against Syria and Iran.

The President may have started a new secret, informal war against Syria and Iran without the consent of Congress or any broad discussion with the country.

If this is true, we're in very big trouble. Or, if the rumor was sparked by an order 'only' authorizing clandestine operations (or, worse, bombardment) as a form of provocation, this is serious stuff. But even if it's not at all true in any way, we're in pretty big trouble, as the spread of this rumor means we've reached a point in our politics when sober, quite moderate, people like Steve Clemons are starting at shadows.
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this makes my stomache hurt, I even had trouble writing the subject line.

please somebodies stop the neo cons

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C_U_L8R

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Fri Jan-12-07 11:50 AM
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1. why oh why

are there even such things as "secret executive orders" ???

no president should have the power to create a war in secret.
It's absurd.

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seemslikeadream

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Fri Jan-12-07 11:51 AM
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2. some here have been trying to tell people to WATCH

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donsu

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Fri Jan-12-07 11:54 AM
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3. thanks for this listing, I had seen a similar list , reading this a.m.s news

but couldn't remember where or I would have included it in my post.

thanks again.

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seemslikeadream

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Fri Jan-12-07 11:57 AM
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5. your welcome, I have been waiting for something to happen

Edited on Fri Jan-12-07 11:57 AM by seemslikeadream

:hi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFowNFvmUxw

I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that youve seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And theres a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the t.v.
You hear one thing again and again
How the u.s.a. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can't take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

Theres a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we cant even say the names

They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

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TheWraith

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:02 PM
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6. We've been over and over this for YEARS.

Do you know how many times this kind of sky-is-falling "war with Iran imminent" talk comes about? There have been at least a dozen times over the last three years when people around here went crazy out of their minds insisting that we were about to attack Iran, just like now. It never happened before, and chances are extremely good that it won't happen now. But every time the troop level increased in Iraq, or something happened over here, that didn't stop people from predicting it with absolute certainty. The last time was just before the election--remember that?

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EST

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Fri Jan-12-07 11:56 AM
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4. We are stopping them, but, as the tired analogy of turning an

aircraft carrier teaches, it takes power, energy and time. There is a real danger that this misbegetten administration, in the name of a continuing war, may well ignite the world.

I say "may well," but I fear that we can depend on it.

The only solution, in the spirit of the tree of liberty's demand for blood, probably includes mobbing Washington by the millions. We may have to physically remove them from our house, although I hope an eviction order and the legal system will suffice.

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