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Headlines : "War on Terror"Does Bush Think War with Iran is Preordained?
This is a feel-good article for rapture believers, but for the rest of us, it’s absurd, and it might even be funny, if it weren’t so damn dangerous and terrifying. These people are playing with our lives, as usual.
Chris Hedges is the author of the book War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning, an excellent and compelling read that I highly recommend to all of you.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from AlterNet
The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage, guided-missile destroyer USS Mason and the fast-attack submarine USS Newport News, is, as I write, making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran. The ships will be in place to strike Iran by the end of the month. It may be a bluff. It may be a feint. It may be a simple show of American power. But I doubt it.
War with Iran — a war that would unleash an apocalyptic scenario in the Middle East — is probable by the end of the Bush administration. It could begin in as little as three weeks. This administration, claiming to be anointed by a Christian God to reshape the world, and especially the Middle East, defined three states at the start of its reign as “the Axis of Evil.” They were Iraq, now occupied; North Korea, which, because it has nuclear weapons, is untouchable; and Iran. Those who do not take this apocalyptic rhetoric seriously have ignored the twisted pathology of men like Elliott Abrams, who helped orchestrate the disastrous and illegal contra war in Nicaragua, and who now handles the Middle East for…
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Let’s hope he’s wrong…
The BBC aired a documentary last night which featured a bunch of Israeli military planners/ex leaders, all of which argued in favor of an Israeli aerial assault within two years on four Iranian nuclear sites.
It offered one Iranian voice, their UN representative, and nothing from its nuclear negotiators, but it did spend a lot of time suggesting that an Israeli strike would be a good idea, like the Osirak strike in 1981.
But things were very different then.
Check it out. Will Israel Bomb Iran?
Oh yeah, it also quoted the Israeli leaders talking about Iranian secrecy, while they themselves boasted of their strategy of “nuclear ambiguity.”
Beautiful.
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War with Iran — a war that would unleash an apocalyptic scenario in the Middle East
That would be because…..
Perhaps Iranians want to be ruled by Sharia Law and a council of supreme Islamic guidance so badly that they would all march into the desert and yell, allah Akhbar and God will descend on the earth and swat all those Jews and Americans hiding behind those rocks.
Get real, Iran is no match for the US military.