Did you Hear about The Unmanned Plane Shot Down IN Iran Today?

[leftchick]

Couple this with Sy Hersh's revelation today of US military personnel already on the ground in Iran! This is not a good thing...... :(

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2216871&mesg_id=2216871

Iran 'shoots down unmanned plane'

From correspondents in Tehran

April 09, 2006

IRAN had shot down an unmanned surveillance plane in the south amid reports that the United States is planning military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, a press report said today.

"This plane had taken off from Iraq and was filming border areas," a report in the hardline Jumhuri Eslami newspaper said.

It added the Islamic Republic "officials have obtained information from the plane system and recordings", without giving any further details.

US publications reported over the weekend that the White House was studying options for military strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities to pressure Tehran to abandon its controversial nuclear program.


http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,18766793-5001028,00.html

[skooooo]

1. Bush is up to no good.

Someone has to stand up to this administration!

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Good people will stand up and stop the megalomaniac in the WH...

...or so I hope. :(

[snappyturtle]

4. No offense, but......

HOW???? Our senators and congressmen, for the most part, either don't listen or don't get the drift of WE THE PEOPLE want......even if * is forced to resign or impeached there are many more megalomaniacs in line. They want what they want and do whatever it takes....amen. :scared:

[Cooley Hurd]

5. "...or so I hope."

:(

[snappyturtle]

8. Sorry..didn't

see "...or hope so." But, I still wonder, "How?"

[leftchick]

7. I agree

According to Sy it will be up to the folks in the DOD or Joint Chiefs to stop him. They seem more willing to quit than to have that confrontation.

:(

[David in Canada]

13. JCS

The JCS, if the resign, will just be replaced by lackeys rushed up the ladder of promotion and then filled into their posts to say "Yes, master" to Shrub.

[YDogg]

14. There will always be someone willing to do anything for bush ...

... promoted into a position of power in spite of qualifications. That's pretty much the way it is these days.

[Slit Skirt]

3. he is trying to push Iran into hostility

just like he wanted to do with Iraq

[Inland]

6. The plan revealed by the DSM to fly UN planes

However, nobody is going to go to war over an unmanned drone.

[bigtree]

9. not unless it's armed with Hellfire missiles and manages to bomb

and kill innocent men, women, and children like the one did in Pakistan.

[Earth_First]

10. I'd still like to see photographic proof to corroborate the story n/t

[Ksec]

11. The Predator doing test runs for bush

This doesnt surprise me. Its Iraq all over again. Theyre goading and provoking a response so they can say they were attacked by those bad evil doers.

[David in Canada]

12. Countdown has begun! 10-9-8...

This can be seen as the official start of the countdown clock.

It is extremely rare for wars to start out of the blue. The standard modus operandi before shooting and misery starts is a slow deterioration in relations and buildup of tensions. The speed slowly but surely picks up pace as time goes on until they go through lightening fast.

The deterioration started just after the 2004 election and is now ratcheting up. I see little reason for optimism as the situation has deteriorated with absolutely no improvement at all. Just a slow collapse of sanity and dialogue.

Even the Cuban Missile Crisis had moments where the situation had tiny improvements in the situation, even in the thick of hostile intentions.

A war with Iran is a matter of 'when', not 'if'. Both Ahmedinedzad and Shrub have messianic complexes PLUS both think they can kick the other's tailend. In war and politics, the actual situation doesn't matter. The situation become what each side percieves the reality to be.

The US military is exhausted but if Bush percieves that he will win, he will attack. The reality of whether or not we will win will have zero effect beyond how it affects BushCo's perceptions. This is a MAJOR, MAJOR miscalculation on the scale of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and Hitler's Operation Barbarossa.

War is politics with bloodshed and without the sanity.