US already approved Iranian targets for bomb and missile strikes

All the signs and signals of imminent calamity are blaring, yet the US heads straight for disaster.

The United States cannot inflict a military defeat on
Iran and any attack would be a huge political mistake,
Russia's top general said on Tuesday.

"It is possible to damage Iran's military and industrial potential, but it is impossible to win," Russian news agencies quoted General Yuri Baluyevsky, head of the Russian general staff, as saying.

"The United States has a contingent in the region capable of launching a strike on Iranian territory.

"However, such possible strikes would be a huge political mistake. Shockwaves from this attack could be felt around the world."

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Russian media late last month quoted unnamed sources in Russian military intelligence as saying the United States could launch a strike on Iran as early as April 6.

RIA news agency quoted a Russian security source as saying Moscow has military intelligence reports that the U.S. has already approved a list of Iranian targets for bomb and missile strikes. The source said a land operation could follow.

U.S. President George W. Bush has said he will pursue diplomatic means to persuade Iran to drop its uranium enrichment plan but he has refused to rule out the use of force.

Baluyevsky said military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan showed the United States would face a fiasco if it took on Iran as well.

"The Americans must think twice (about attacking Iran)," he said. "They have already got stuck in Afghanistan and Iraq."

"Huge political mistake," "impossible to win," "fiasco," "think twice" - how many different ways can they spell it out?

The US is courting disaster if it strikes Iran and thanks to our Knesset-Congress-Senate - Bush and his madmen have the green light to do it.

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With secret programs like the US`s Domestic Spying Program and the international satellite program Echelon, the world has become a pseudo reality of freedom. Strategies and plans are made in a cold war type environment of governments knowing but not saying they know and other governments knowing they know but not admitting it.

What we think is our freedom is in fact a very controlled reality with the impression of freedom. People are distracted with the trappings of their standard of living not knowing that it could be stripped from them in a moment.

A recent book has been published on this. Anthony Brina`s Suburban Spies at
http://www.trafford.com/4dcgi/dosearch

tells an incredible story of a person victim to this control and destructive and fatal method used by government groups. Widespread methods are used on innocent people to control outcomes and manipulate reality at all costs!

anthony brina | Wed, 2007-04-04 06:17

I wonder if the admirals and generals who claimed they would quit a while back are going to stand by their word? If the military decides not to, who in this country would have the might to even bring them to justice? When you have an aircraft carrier under your control, and all those people, you can be the 500lb gorilla, and sit where you want to!!! This would be a hoot! This would severly test every person in uniform. The question would be, "Should I follow my commander, or some idiot back in the States that is giving the commands that he/she is told to by AIPAC! And doesn't care a bit about how many lives have been ruined/ended playing out this NWO game.

rambler | Wed, 2007-04-04 06:36

(However, all options are on the table.) I suspect the repercussions will be small at first. Oil prices and Wall Street will go nuts, but the world will soon return to murderous business-as-usual.

I also suspect that Iran will not retaliate, since Iran will have far more to gain by doing nothing. When a bully attacks, and the victim does nothing, the bully is exposed as a monster. The Chimp may even have to arrange another Mossad murder spree in the USA, while ordering the Ziomedia to label this an “Iranian retaliation.”

Unfortunately the attack will remove any shred of doubt that BushCo is mad. Until now the world has closed its eyes, hoping the nightmare will end, but the world will see that the ZioBush-mare can have no end. Various nations will grab what they can while they can. Hence the Iran strike will indeed be the opening salvo of World War Z.

Anyway, what can the Chimp bomb? The Iranians have already moved their enrichment facilities, leaving decoys at ground level, and the Crawford Caligula dares not attack Iran’s oil infrastructure, since Europe and Asia need that oil.

Perhaps the Texas weevil will try to infest Khuzistan, the oil-rich province east of Basra. Dubya will dub this a security operation “inside” Iraq.

To Rambler

I suspect the U.S. military will follow its orders. Troops only mutiny after massive casualties and prolonged privation, while generals and admirals tend to be weaklings. I can’t think of any major war in modern history where the military said “No” at the beginning.

Air Force and Naval personnel are gung-ho, since they are less mature than drunk teenagers in Daddy’s sports car. For the last two weeks, the U.S. has been buzzing the sky over western Iran, with pilots fanning their tails like so many impotent peacocks. I hear the movie “300” is being shown on aircraft carriers round the clock. When Bush squeaks, the bedwetters will channel their cowardice into bravado.

Besides, if one aircraft carrier hesitates, an Israeli Dolphin-class submarine may torpedo the other. That should take care of the problem.

Abdul-Alhazred | Wed, 2007-04-04 10:34

Committing suicide to kill others has a long tradition in the history of the Jews: Remember the blinded Samson taking scores with him in his death!

The US is the former economic and political Samson, who thought that all its support for Israel made that country its friend, but instead it was robbed, it was threatened, and it was blinded by it.

This Easter week when we commemorate our Lord's ultimate sacrifice for us the US will take steps of aggression for Israel. The consequence will be "The End of History" for the US, not in the sense of the book of that title, not the final step towards perfection of society, but it will be the end of any and all illusions that the US and its Israeli masters are anything more than failed, criminal enterprises.

The other day the Supreme Court capitulated on the Guantanamo issue, it recognized formally that the rule of law does not apply in the US.

After the coming - possibly nuclear - aggression on Iran the international community must consider whether there is any basis left for political recognition of the US and its puppeteers. In the meantime it will be natural for us all to rid ourselves of investments in the US and to make sure not to support the US economy by buying its products or services.

Made Brani | Wed, 2007-04-04 12:06

In light of the foregoing...
a question might now be asked -

Imperial Sunset?

Threats to US Hegemony
by Aijaz Ahmad
Global Research, April 3, 2007

For the first time since its rise as a superpower the United States is facing a serious threat to its hegemony across the globe.

IN February this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed a security conference in Munich that had 250 of the world's top leaders and officials in attendance, including such luminaries as the German Chancellor and the U.S. Secretary of State. He said some very rude words about the United States, denouncing its unilateralism and unipolar pretensions, its trampling of international law, its stoking of the arms race, its aggressions across the globe. These, Putin said, were factors that encouraged others to seek their own weapons of mass destruction and even commit terrorist acts.

He went further and warned Europe itself that the continuing eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was "a serious provocative factor" and that the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) had been converted into "a vulgar instrument for advancing the foreign policy goals of one country or a group of countries against other countries". The global missile defence system developed by the U.S. would, he said, "give it a free hand to launch not only local, but global conflicts" and the proposed deployment of U.S. missile interceptors in Europe to neutralise Russia's nuclear arsenals would trigger "another round of the inevitable arms race". Calling for a new "global security architecture", Putin reminded the Europeans that the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) had among them a larger gross domestic product (GDP) than the European Union. "There is no doubt that in the foreseeable future the economic potential of these new centres of power will inevitably get converted into political clout and will strengthen multipolarity," he said.

That Russia and Iran, the world's supreme energy giants and both countries in the eye of U.S. military designs, would seek military cooperation and an energy alliance - even perhaps an eventual "gas cartel" as no less a personage than Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has suggested - is entirely understandable. The real scandal of the situation is that soon after delivering that speech, Putin went off to seek energy cooperation with, and sell weapon systems to, such U.S. `reliables' as the Saudi, Jordanian and Qatari royals.

The Financial Times, the premier newspaper for global capital, reacted to Putin's sweeping speech with a simple question: Imperial Sunset? The `decline of U.S. hegemony' has been a favourite theme among many circles of the left since the early 1970s, not as an absolute event but as a relative decline, related to the growing power of its major capitalist competitors. Is that `decline' now becoming a real `sunset'?

A variety of factors have contributed to this question: the military debacle of the U.S. in Iraq and of Israel, its only 100 per cent ally, in Lebanon, which precipitated comprehensive domestic crises of confidence inside both countries; the immensity of U.S. deficits and instability of the dollar as the pre-eminent global currency; the challenges of the famous "pink tide" in Latin America; the resurgence of Russian power and high rates of growth in China and India; "resource wars", that is, the emergence of giant energy producers and consumers on the one hand and, on the other, what Michael Klare calls "energo-fascism" in which, he avers, the Pentagon has increasingly become a "global oil protection service". That is a very tall order, and no one article, or a set of articles as the current issue of Frontline is presenting them, can wholly answer questions of such magnitude. What follows here offers a basic outline, starting with the Achilles' heel, the historically unprecedented and currently unrivalled military power of the U.S., which is proving to be the principal cause of its hubris.

http://www.atomagazine.com/images/IS_cover_large.jpg
Imperial Sunset - Leyte Gulf Simulation Game

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=AHM20070...
full article can be found here

quasimodo | Wed, 2007-04-04 13:09

unclesam wakeup

Go, Rep. Kaptur!

Tell Wall Street to Go To Hell!!!

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