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A neo-conservative cabal operating out of the Pentagon that, will lead the United States to attack Iran. We should not doubt this. A recent article by Laura Rozen for the Los Angeles Times revealed the Pentagon has created yet another Office of Special Plans type body called the Directorate for Iran, or the Iranian Directorate. The notorious Office of Special Plans – which focused on Iraq –bears a special responsibility for causing the calamity in that fractured "nation."
Now, The Directorate is in charge of military strategy against Iran and employing techniques of brainwashing used on the American people to support a war against Iraq.
The Iranian Directorate's staff includes several Office Of Special plans veterans such as neo-conservatives Abram Shulsky ,John Trigilio. Ladan Archin and Reuel Marc Gerecht. Why would Bush put people who got everything wrong in Iraq in charge of Iran?
Obviously, it's madness, but what else in new in Bushland?
Why is it certain that the Bush Regime will wage war on Iran? Let’s examine both the military and political evidence: The U.S. is doing everything militarily it would do if it were going to attack Iran. It has installed Patriot Missile Batteries in Kuwait. Iraq has no missiles, Iran does. The U.S. has deployed minesweepers in the Persian Gulf. It has deployed F-16 fighter bombers for the first time in 3 years in Turkey.
Worst of all, according to the current issue of Newsweek, the aircraft carrier battle group, built around the carrier Nimitz, will be deployed to the Gulf. We currently have two carrier groups deployed off Iran, the Eisenhower and the Stennis battle groups. Colonel Sam Gardner of the Air War College has stated that when the U.S. deploys 3 groups to the Middle East it is a sure bet that the U.S. will go to war with Iran. This is because this action uses up our war fighting capability and can only mean the intent to go to war.
On the political front the mass media is acting as a conduit for war propaganda, just as it did for the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Headlines in the New York and Los Angeles Times scream about the Iranian danger. The Bush Administration is now implying that Iran is behind everything in Iraq. Their line is that the lives of our soldiers in Iraq are endangered by Iran. (Never mind that Saudia Arabia, Syria and Jordan are deeply involved, and that the so-called government we support in Iraq is pro-Iranian.) The Bush cant goes on to get us to believe that heavily nuclear armed Israel’s existence is threatened. ( Ignore the reality that Iran is years away from making nuclear bombs.)
We all remember that, when Bush signed the Iraq War Resolution he said, in connection with it, that the War Powers Act, which limits his power to go to war, is unconstitutional. He acknowledges no limits on his war making power. Bush is a military dictator whose boots march on the faces of a supine congress and a mass media which prostrates itself at his feet.
Why shouldn't Bush, this incompetent and dismal failure, egged on by neo cons, attack Iran? Politically he has nothing to lose. We know this. It is difficult to image his poll numbers going lower. And this man, who sees himself as some sort of an all powerful commander-in-chief, of all Americans (he's not my commander in chief, I'm not a member of the armed forces), this top gun wannabe, might be able to brag that he knocked out a few Iranian nuclear installations. But at what price?
The U.S. will become more politically isolated from its allies, military overstretched, Iran will cut off oil supplies from the Straits of Hormuz, and there will be a huge increase in terrorist attacks on Americans and U.S. interests worldwide. The backlash on the streets of Iraq will be horrible and hold many of our soldiers hostages to Iraqi hatred and outrage.
Can this calamity be averted? Yes. Congress must say “no, never again” to the inept, disgraceful Bush.
How? As Larry Diamond a very conservative a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution has written, nothing prevents Congress from using its power of the purse to prevent an American attack on Iran. He writes, “Congress should not wait. It should hold hearings on Iran before the president orders a bombing attack on its nuclear facilities, or orders or supports a provocative act by the U.S. or an ally designed to get Iran to retaliate, and thus further raise war fever. “ But congress, as usual, presents the spectacle of limpid disinterest and stupid ignorance about this most pressing problems of our time, It seems to have no plans to hold any hearings!
We will not see on TV that there is a neo-conservative cabal operating out of the Pentagon that will lead the United States to attack Iran. Without TV attention, the masses of Americans, who get their news from that source, will have no concept of what we are discussing here. Meanwhile our mass media chefs are serving the kool aid of unthinking hatred and contempt for Iran, just before the cabal sets the table with its poisonous dishes of death, destruction, and human misery. We must ask ourselves if we too are drinking the kool aid. Has our hatred of Iran deeped over the last few weeks? Have you and I caught the fever?
We must contact our Senators and Representatives and demand hearings on this issue. We must write letters to newspapers and engage our friends. We must ask questions when Democratic Aspirants for the Presidency come to our states and towns. Once the war begins it will be too late because, predictably, they will rally behind the troops already engaged in battle. We know that Hillary Clinton would not agree with this analysis. But what of Edwards, Obama, and the other Democratic Aspirants? They should be demanding that congressional hearings be held now, and speak out against the coming calamityy. We must hold their feet to the fire now and hold them accountable.
The issue is simple: Who rules America? is it the people, who recently voted for peace, or a warmongering cabal aiding and abetting a demagogic, military dictator?
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