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By Ann Scott Tyson

Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 25, 2008; 1:51 PM

The nation's top military officer said today that the Pentagon is planning for "potential military courses of action" against Iran, criticizing what he called the Tehran government's "increasingly lethal and malign influence" in Iraq.

Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a conflict with Iran would be "extremely stressing" but not impossible for U.S. forces, pointing specifically to reserve capabilities in the Navy and Air Force.

"It would be a mistake to think that we are out of combat capability," he said at a Pentagon news conference.

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The only way to win is through PEACE: LOVE.

For example, look at the mess that is Afghanistan! And now the mongrels want to attack Iran, which is waaaaay bigger, way more powerful, way more people, and has way more support.

The only thing they're upto, were they to attack, is GENOCIDE.

Grim Reaper | Sat, 2008-04-26 01:29

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mparent7777 | Sat, 2008-04-26 01:50
Grim Reaper | Sat, 2008-04-26 03:08
Grim Reaper | Sat, 2008-04-26 04:08
Grim Reaper | Sat, 2008-04-26 05:12

Another war for the parasites. The parasites in Washington need  to be brought to trial, for murder, and each count, being an American soldier, and foreign national, of every country victimized by these things, that cry they have enemies. Let Israel's holocaust on the Palestinians go down in history, so the Palestinians can sue for reparations. We know this to be true, unlike the fables that passed for knowledge after WWll

rambler | Sat, 2008-04-26 07:02

The rottens and all their devil-cults have wronged alot of people; and the Palestinians deserve to be first in line for reparations.

Grim Reaper | Sat, 2008-04-26 08:01

'Now it looks like the attack is coming soon: I would say the die is cast, and that it awaits only the pretext."



I admit to feeling a little like the weatherman who keeps saying it's going to rain, and who eventually is proven correct. I feel certain that the Bush/Cheney regime is going to launch a disastrous attack on Iran, but have made several calls, which have been proved wrong, beginning back in October 2006, when I wrote that it looked like several aircraft carrier battle groups were being put in position for the assault, but then it was called off.

Now it looks like the attack is coming soon.

The Washington Post's Ann Scott Tyson is today reporting in an article headlined, Joint Chiefs Chairman Says US Preparing Military Options Against Iran, that Admiral Michael Mullen, the nation's top military officer, thinks the US military is not stretched too thin to take on Iran, and that Iran is becoming an "increasingly lethal and malign influence" in Iraq.

This article comes only a day after a US civilian ship under contract to the US military to deliver supplies to Iraq fired on Iranian boats in the Persian Gulf--just the kind of aggressive action that could lead to an Iranian reaction and trigger a full-blown US response.

The Persian Gulf is now crammed full of US attack ships, ranging from a missile-armed nuclear sub to aircraft carriers packed with tomahawk cruise missiles and fleets of attack aircraft larger than most nation's entire air forces (and also with nuclear weapons).

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mparent7777 | Sat, 2008-04-26 23:57

..they want to attack at a time of their choosing, to get the 'surprise'; whatever that means..

..the next batch of Canadian hamburger will arrive soon too. *sigh*

Grim Reaper | Sun, 2008-04-27 00:03

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by Justin Raimondo

The shooting has already started in the Persian Gulf – and chances are we'll be at war with Iran before President Bush's term is up. An American ship under contract with the U.S. Navy – the Western Venture – claims it was in international waters when Iranian speedboats approached and failed to answer radio calls. Shots were fired on the American side. Iran denies the whole thing. Yet you'll recall that in the last incident, involving the capture of British sailors, the story about being in international waters was the same – except, it turns out, they weren't in international waters, but in disputed waters, just as we speculated in this space. There's no reason to expect anything different this time. Clearly, the U.S. and Britain are trying to trigger a new conflict with the most brazen provocations, and they don't really care how it happens – only that it does.

The indications of an imminent attack – the latest incident, the steady stream of accusations coming from the U.S. regarding Iranian influence in Iraq, the nuclear charade, etc. – have suddenly taken a more ominous turn with the recent statement of America's top military officer that the U.S. is weighing military action against Iran. The Washington Post reports:

"The nation's top military officer said yesterday that the Pentagon is planning for 'potential military courses of action' as one of several options against Iran, criticizing what he called the Tehran government's 'increasingly lethal and malign influence' in Iraq. Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said a conflict with Iran would be 'extremely stressing' but not impossible for U.S. forces, pointing to reserve capabilities in the Navy and Air Force."

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mparent7777 | Mon, 2008-04-28 19:34

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We have heard it all before but even if it is true, and let us assume it is true, there is more to this accusation than what meets the eye. We need to revisit what the courageous whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds, testified to behind closed doors in the Senate.

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mparent7777 | Mon, 2008-04-28 19:52

By Peter Symonds

28 April 2008

More than seven months after Israeli warplanes destroyed a building in Syria’s eastern desert, the Bush administration has released intelligence purporting to prove that Damascus was building a nuclear reactor at the site, with the assistance of North Korea, as part of plans to build an atomic bomb.

The CIA intelligence briefing last Thursday raised more questions than it answered, and fuelled considerable speculation about its timing and purpose. In all the commentary, however, the most obvious point is deliberately obscured. The US is belatedly justifying an unprovoked and illegal act of aggression by Israel, undoubtedly sanctioned at the time by Washington, that had the potential to spark a new war in the Middle East.

A White House statement hypocritically warned that Syria’s covert construction of the reactor was “a dangerous and potentially destabilising development for the region and the world”, carried out in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). It is an open secret, however, that Israel, with Washington’s tacit approval, has covertly manufactured a substantial arsenal of nuclear weapons, refused to sign the NPT and blocked International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections of its facilities.

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mparent7777 | Mon, 2008-04-28 21:33
mparent7777 | Mon, 2008-04-28 23:30
mparent7777 | Tue, 2008-04-29 00:01
mparent7777 | Tue, 2008-04-29 01:13

Yes…  everything points to war in a world that is run by media.   US ‘accusations’ against Iran and Syria are being hyped up to a point of such ridicule that one doesn’t even have the appropriate words to describe the scandalous US ‘political’ behavior (eine Schande!)  From what we are witnessing here in the Middle East in terms of the US position, if the US attacks Iran, the Americans in the Middle East are going to have to leave.  Already in Egypt which is supposed to be a ‘moderate’ US’ ally’, this past 6th of April when there was a massive general strike, all US citizens were for the first time asked by the US embassy to stay home on that day and not to get out.  With every extra Iraqi, Afghani , Lebanese or Palestinian death, the anti-US feeling is increasing to the point that Americans.. after a series of other restrictions have been asked not to get out of their houses.  Going to war with Iran is one of the surest ways of guaranteeing an American exit not only from Iraq, but from all of the Middle East…  The Arab people at this stage more than welcome getting rid of the US, but is it US policy to aim leaving the entire Middle East??  I don’t think so.  The US is doing its maximum and lying through its teeth to the American people in order  to stay in Iraq and in Lebanon.  It has already lost Iran years ago and actually Iraq now too.  Unless I totally misunderstand US policy, only a very stupid administration would attack Iran and thereby sign its final death sentence for the rest of the Middle East. 

 

Cherifa Sirry | Tue, 2008-04-29 08:31

They don't serve their own people,
so WHO DO THEY SERVE? [themselves: devils]
israel would be destroyed if war gets out of control, yet they seem to be in majority control of the US. i think the main enablers of zionism wouldn't move to Palestine [because] their lives depend on it, the cowards! Look for our biggest enemies in the babylonian bunkers worldwide.

An attack on Iran would bring the BEAR back into the equation: Russia. Let's not forget that they lost the Afghani poppy fields to the other rottens' tentacle, and that they are poised to re-assert their dominance over the entire USSR and beyond. They also have enough nukes to destroy the planet more times that i want to count. All they need is some crazy brainwashed supremacist zoos to light the fuse.

Grim Reaper | Tue, 2008-04-29 12:23

Bush says admin released info on Syria's nuclear program to "advance certain policy objectives" and to put Iran on notice.
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Bush: Syria nuke disclosure had objective

Published: April 29, 2008

WASHINGTON, April 29 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush said Tuesday his administration released information on Syria's nuclear program to "advance certain policy objectives."

Under questioning by reporters at a White House Rose Garden news conference, Bush said the information wasn't released immediately after Israel bombed the suspected nuclear facility in Syria to prevent an escalation of the confrontation.

The administration last week disclosed Syria received help from North Korea in pursuing its nuclear program.

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mparent7777 | Tue, 2008-04-29 22:21
mparent7777 | Tue, 2008-04-29 22:47

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April 28, 2008 Monday
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U.S.-Protected Iranian Exiles in Limbo in Iraq
RENEE MONTAGNE, STEVE INSKEEP

RENEE MONTAGNE, host:

This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.

STEVE INSKEEP, host:

And I'm Steve Inskeep. Good morning.

We're about to bring you up to date on a group that's called a terrorist organization or even a cult. It's called those things but it's under the protection of the U.S. military. It's a group of Iranians. They want to overthrow Iran's government and they are in exile right now in Iraq.

We're going to hear this morning from both sides of the border about one of the stranger stories to emerge from the war. The story centers around the Iranian exiles who call themselves the People's Mujahideen, or MEK. Their U.S.-protected camp is called Camp Ashraf.

NPR's Anne Garrels begins with the story of one woman who escaped them.

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