Global War, not on terror, just Global War

[flamin lib]

We are at war with Iran. The bombs just haven't started falling yet. For the last year Iran has been the target of Administration rhetoric but last week Bush announced that we will engage them in battle. Tucked away in the middle of the Escalation-in-Iraq speech was this little tidbit:

“Succeeding in Iraq also requires defending its territorial integrity and stabilizing the region in the face of extremist challenges. This begins with addressing Iran and Syria. These two regimes are allowing terrorists and insurgents to use their territory to move in and out of Iraq. Iran is providing material support for attacks on American troops. We will disrupt the attacks on our forces. We'll interrupt the flow of support from Iran and Syria. And we will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq.”

Here’s the plan: first we establish that Iran is a threat. They’re developing nuclear weapons, they harbor terrorists, their leader is a bad man and all the stuff we heard about Iraq in 2002. Next we set the stage by deploying a Navy Strike force to the Persian Gulf with aircraft carriers and cruise missiles. While we’re at it we deploy patriot missiles into Iraq. What good are cruise and patriot missiles against insurgents with IEDs? Not much but they'd be great for targeting Iranian facilities and protecting the fleet from ground to ship missiles. Suddenly putting an Admiral in charge of the area makes sense! Then stories are planted in mainstream media that seem to bear out Iran’s direct danger to our troops. ABC, for instance, reported that military intelligence found “dozens of Iranian supplied . . . Explosive Form Projectiles” shipped into Iraq. One paragraph later the devices are “believed to be of Iranian origin”. Are they Iranian or not? Next the US goads Iran and Syria into a diplomatic dispute, like maybe busting into a consulate annex and arresting a half dozen diplomats. US intelligence tells us they aren't diplomats, Iran says they are. There’s that military intelligence again! All that’s left is to create a border incident and it's shock & awe all over again.

We have wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. Where do you get the troops to open another front? The reserves and guard. Until last week the limit for active duty performed by the reserves and guard was 24 months. The day after Bush’s speech about the “surge” that time limit was abolished.

Can we really afford to leave this clown in office for two more years? Won't somebody give him a BJ so we can impeach the fool?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/washington/politicsspecial/15strategy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin US plans for Iran

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/070112000141.7hz02312.html US raid on Iranian consulate

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/01/new_arms_shipme.html Weapons declared Iranian then “believed to be Iranian”.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070112/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_military Pentagon lifts limits on reserve active duty time

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1990463,00.html Deployments suggest escalation into Iran.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. It not really war it's really plundering other countries for oil, power and greed

war?

[Double T]

2. Capitol CSI is trying to locate the blue dress right NOW...........

Patrick J. Fitzgerald is standing in the wings.

[roamer65]

3. Russian Admiral says US preparing missile attack on Iran.

The Russians have their ways to monitor US military activity. When a Russian Admiral says the attack will begin soon, I sit up and take notice.

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/01/15/admiral.shtml

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. this good work got burried DEEP way to fast... K&R it please...

[sweetheart]

5. what is it?

The use of the term “international terrorism” has the following goals:
- Hiding the real objectives of the forces deployed all over the world in the struggle for dominance and control;
- Turning the people’s demands to a struggle of undefined goals against an invisible enemy;
- Destroying basic international norms and changing concepts such as: aggression, state terror, dictatorship or movement of national liberation;
- Depriving peoples of their legitimate right to fight against aggressions and to reject the work of foreign intelligence services;
- Establishing the principle of renunciation to national interests, transforming objectives in the military field by giving priority to the war on terror, violating the logic of military alliances to the detriment of a joint defense and to favor the anti-terrorist coalition;
- Solving economic problems through a tough military rule using the war on terror as a pretext.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article133909.html

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. who's a "TERRORIST?...

[sweetheart]

7. "i know why you did it."..

...I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now President, George Bush. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence.
Last night I destroyed the (world trade center), to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Congress, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.

-V.01