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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men: -Plato
Chatter about the possibility of this is getting louder by the day it seems. This is one of several pieces floating around:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/013107.html
I just can't get my head round Bush actually trying to pull this off. If this goes down, it will either be the end of Bush's presidency or the beginning of the end for the rest of us...
Perhaps many imagine that the widespread public passivity and indifference to the long-planned invasion of Iran might have something to do with its semblematic cry-wolf "announcement" repeated every few months over the past five years (indeed, in 2002, after the failure to catch Bin Laden in Afghanistan and the subsequent decision to continue with the bloody mayhem in that country, a number of us were convinced that the next target would be Iran, not Iraq, until we realised that the latter was such a soft, easy target, not requiring the use of nuclear weapons).
People couldn't get their "head round Bush actually trying to pull" off the invasion of Iraq in 2003, but unlike THEN (Feb 2003), there's no millions this time out protesting on the streets, no shock or surprise, just a perfectly predictable fatalistic impotence ...
But what's happening right now is much more ominous.
Now. Let's see, then:
Iran: The War Begins
By John Pilger
As opposition grows in America to the failed Iraq adventure, the Bush administration is preparing public opinion for an attack on Iran, its latest target, by the spring.
The United States is planning what will be a catastrophic attack on Iran.
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'US poised to attack,' claims Bulgarian agency:
The United States "could be using its two air force bases in Bulgaria and one at Romania's Black Sea coast to launch an attack on Iran in April," the Bulgarian news agency Novinite claimed.
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The War on Iran
By Stephen Gowans
The war has already begun and it has nothing to do with nuclear weapons and threats against Israel and everything to do with who rules America.
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U.S. Delays Report on Iranian Role in Iraq
By Paul Richter
The Bush administration has postponed plans to offer public details of its charges of Iranian meddling inside Iraq amid internal divisions over the strength of the evidence, U.S. officials said.
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Report: US plans strike against Iran:
The Pentagon was reported to be considering ways for the US to destroy nuclear facilities such as Iran's main centrifuge plant at Natanz, despite the fact that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney hoped that diplomatic efforts to restrain Iran would succeed.
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Francis Fukuyama: The neocons have learned nothing from five years of catastrophe :
Their zealous advocacy of the invasion of Iraq may have been a disaster, but now they want to do it all over again - in Iran
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Dave Lindorff: This is like Hitler's Suicide Order from the Bunker:
I wrote last September that Bush was gearing up for war with Iran, as evidenced by the moving up of the deployment date of the carrier group headed by the recently re-fueled and re-armed USS Eisenhower, some of whose crewmembers had leaked that its mission was to attack Iran.
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Bush's Trash Talk About Iran
By Robert Dreyfuss
The Bush administration's charges against Iran are, for the most part, scare talk and nothing more. Iran has virtually nothing to do with the Iraqi resistance movement, which is commanded and staffed by Sunni Arab military officers and Baathists.
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Manufacturing consent for war with Iran:
Raid In Iraq Found Evidence Of Iranian Aid To Militias-TV : During a recent raid in the Iraqi city of Irbil in which Iranians were detained, the U.S. found what some officials claim is evidence Iran is providing aid to insurgents and militias, NBC News reported Tuesday.
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Bush 'spoiling for a fight' with Iran:
US officials in Baghdad and Washington are expected to unveil a secret intelligence "dossier" this week detailing evidence of Iran's alleged complicity in attacks on American troops in Iraq. The move, uncomfortably echoing Downing Street's dossier debacle in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, is one more sign that the Bush administration is building a case for war.
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A Powerful Iran not Tolerated by US :
Tehran's Ambassador to Damascus Mohammad Hassan Akhtari said that Americans have now resorted to a plot which has long been used by the British, and that is none but sowing discord among Muslim Shiites and Sunnites to divide them and to discredit the Shiite Iran.
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Sen. Robert Byrd: Bush Wants War with Iran:
Top Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd is warning that the Bush administration is preparing to go to war with Iran.
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The Danger of Bush's Anti-Iran Fatwa
By Juan Cole
The president's decision to use force against Iranian "agents" inside Iraq could snare innocent pilgrims, and raises the risk of open warfare.
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Iran, Israel, The Big Lie and The Real Threat
By Frank Scott
"Attempting to portray Iran as a nuclear menace to Israel and the world, in that order, even though it has no nuclear weapons and Israel has hundreds, is not merely a sign of dementia. It is indication of near idiocy in a society that can be repeatedly manipulated into believing such totally crackpot notions that have no foundation in the material world but exist only in a world of superstitious psycho-fantasy."
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Hillary Clinton calls Iran a threat to U.S., Israel:
Calling Iran a danger to the U.S. and one of Israel's greatest threats, U.S. senator and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said "no option can be taken off the table" when dealing with that nation
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US strike group transits Suez Canal:
A US Navy strike group led by the assault ship USS Bataan steamed through the Suez Canal on Tuesday on its way to join the buildup of American forces in the Middle East.
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Europeans fear US attack on Iran as nuclear row intensifies:
Senior European policy-makers are increasingly worried that the US administration will resort to air strikes against Iran to try to destroy its suspect nuclear programme.
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