HANS BLIX: WILL THE U.S. ATTACK IRAN?

[freedomfries]

HANS BLIX: WILL THE U.S. ATTACK IRAN?

MaximsNews.com, U.N.
International Herald Tribune
February 19, 2007
http://www.maximsnews.com/107hansblixfebruary19.htm

UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com, UN/ - 19 February 2007 -- Will the U.S. use armed force against Iran? Hardly any foreign policy issue is hotter right now.

American planes are reported to be patrolling along the border between Iraq and Iran and American forces have been authorized to kill Iranian agents in Iraq.

In a show to media in Iraq anonymous US military experts have demonstrated munitions that they claimed has been delivered by Iran.

Two American air-craft carriers are in the Persian Gulf and missile defenses have been installed in Gulf states.

Since no one imagines that Iran might launch an attack the conclusion must be drawn that the military build-up is either to scare Iran or to prepare for American attacks on Iran.

Many remember that there was a US military build-up in the Persian Gulf during the autumn of 2002 and the first months of 2003 and that the US attack on Iraq followed in March.

Is something similar under way now?

Most commentators note that a large part of the American people feel their country was tricked into the war in Iraq and would disapprove more military adventures.

Yet, many worry that the Bush administration might be tempted to play up Iran's activities as an important reason for the anarchy in Iraq and to reduce the attention to the debacle in Iraq by opening a new front through bombings in Iran.

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[MethuenProgressive]

1. Not "will?" but rather "When will?"

"However, practically all are of the view that a military attack would be disastrous."

Bush doesn't care.

[rfranklin]

2. Chaos is money in the bank for the Bush crime family...

and their supporters. More weapons to be bought and sold. More "no bid" contracts. More billions gone missing with no effort to ask where. It's a beautiful thing!

[livvy]

3. Money trumps peace...

I have been like Chicken Little on this issue for a long time, except unlike Chicken Little, the evidence is real. I've sent many pieces of the evidence to my email group, and I'll send this as well.

Not only would there be tremendous profits to be made, but what a wonderful diversion from all the past crimes this regime has committed. So much for investigations ordered by Congress.

It would put this country into such a spin and such real danger, that it would be near impossible for people to take their eye off the ball, to focus on anything that occurred in the past. The chaos in Iraq would go the way of attention to Afghanistan, with the same results - failure and increased danger to military personnel and the people of the country. Iran the new focus. Iraq and Afghanistan...old news.

Anyone that says, "Aww, they wouldn't attack Iran. That would be crazy!" has not been paying attention. They are crazy. They don't care about anything except money and power. They have no reliable vision for the future, and don't care that their vision is lacking in depth, compassion, or reality.

[USA_1]

4. Congressional Democrats Remain Silent

... silence is collaboration.

War is avoidable. But it will happen if this silence persists.

[Peace Patriot]

5. So refreshing to read a voice of reason on dire issues of war and nukes!

When you get exposed to too much Cheney/Bush madness, you begin to think the world has gone mad. It has not. Nor have the American people, EIGHTY-FOUR PERCENT of whom oppose any US participation in a widened Mideast war (poll posted at DU last summer). The madness has two sources: The Bush Junta, and the war profiteering corporate news monopolies (run by 5 rightwing billionaire CEOs) who echo the Bush Junta's radical views and approve its monstrous actions.

But I'm surprised that Hans Blix isn't tearing his hair out by now--at the Bush Junta's crimes, and at the lack of democracy in the U.S. of A. He does allude to both. But he's awfully calm about it. Maybe this is his signal that the rest of the world is not so paralyzed as it was in 2003, and is acting to curtail our monsters. He says, why not talk to Iran--whether they will stop their progress toward nukes or not? A military attack would be disastrous. This is the position of the entire rest of the world--except for the Bush Junta and its war profiteering corporate news monopolies. He says it more diplomatically than I would. But that is the situation. The Bush Junta is alone and without allies. If it commits another mad act, there will be consequences. Blix doesn't say this. But perhaps he doesn't have to say it, to the readership he is writing for (politicians, diplomats, foreign service, governments). (Maximnews.com--which describes itself as "an independent voice of the United Nations," and has a long list of Nobel prize winners, heads of government and other notables, as contributors.) It is nevertheless there, I think, simmering beneath his words.

My guess: The consequence will be a crash of the US dollar, engineered by China, Russia and India--who recently met, with the agenda of, how to curtail the US bully?--perhaps with the cooperation of European countries (especially those likely to be downwind of US nukes and/or likely to be impacted by masses of refugees) and South America, which doesn't have a Common Market yet, but is heading there (with leftist (majorityist) governments elected in country after country). China holds the bulk of US debt paper. China and Russia have close trade ties with Iran. India needs stability in Muslim countries, given the India/Pakistan nuke standoff. And both China and India have already sucked the US dry of jobs and manufacturing capability (--with the collusion of the Bushites and the preceding Clintonites). All the US has left is its very drained and overextended military, which depends for financial support on a US middle class whom the Bushites truly hate and have mercilessly looted. A Bush Junta strike on Iran will be the end of US power in the world. These other countries may not even have to take punitive action. We will crumble from within. But the threat of punitive action, as a preventative, is very real.

[autorank]

6. K&R Blix Nails it

"Yet, many worry that the Bush administration might be tempted to play up Iran's activities as an important reason for the anarchy in Iraq and to reduce the attention to the debacle in Iraq by opening a new front through bombings in Iran."

Oh great, here we go again. And Blix, above all others, would know.

Excellent post.

[rumpel]

7. We can stop this nuclear idiocy if

the Global community demands a treaty for a total ban of nuclear weapons - including those that already posses them to dismantle.
Have we not learned anything from the many years of the so called Cold War? Only the players changed and the result of the insistence of bush
reneging on the treaties, keeping and "improving" on these weapons has now created the impossible situation of the possibility of some crazed groups using them.

Unfortunately, I do not have much confidence in the new UN general, but we'll see.

bush is provoking, yet again. Remember Sy Hersh's book? Our fighter jets were ordered to escalate and provoke in the no-fly zones, before the Iraq invasion.

Congress has to reign in, better yet, remove these crazed men sitting in the WH.

[EFerrari]

8. k&r

:kick:

[ArmchairMeme]

9. In earlier note Israel requests permission to fly over Iraq to Iran

[Melissa G]

10. These people occupying our White House are war mongers

and those who pull their strings are as well.

I pray that those in Congress develop a backbone and rise up to their rightful place as a constitutional check to the insanity of the thieves who have stolen the executive branch. K&R!

[freedomfries]

11. right on melissa!

the odds for this nightmare to be averted aren't good right now. We need to get creative.