Carsonal
May 5th, 2008, 03:13 AM
I think there's a plethora of things to indicate this, but here's another drop in the bucket.
The neocons who run things over at the Pentagon want you to know — the coming attack on Iran has nothing to do with nukes, as they have maintained now for years, but rather Iran’s ability to protect itself.
“The Pentagon is drawing up plans for a ’surgical strike’ against an alleged insurgent training camp in Iran, according to the UK Sunday Times’ Michael Smith,” reports John Byrne for Raw Story. “Attributing the assertion to Western intelligence officials, Smith asserts that US officials have become increasingly frustrated with Iran’s Republican Guard force — an elite corps of the country’s military — which the Bush Administration has designated a terrorist group. Western officials have accused Iran of helping arming rebel militias in Iraq, and have accused Iran of supplying IEDs.”
Never mind over the weekend Iraq admitted they have no evidence Iran is supplying munitions to the “insurgents,” actually a well-organized resistance. Our “hawks,” i.e., neocon psychopaths who hate Iran and love Israel, know most of you cannot remember important events from day to day, especially when key events are buried on the Agence France Presse website.
Everything is going as planned, although the neocons thought they would have flattened Iran and killed untold numbers of toddlers and grandmothers by now.
Back in October of last year, Seymour Hersh, writing for the New Yorker, said the Pentagon neocons had drawn up plans to bomb Iran and shift emphasis from Iran’s illusory nuclear weapon program to the Revolutionary Guard. Earlier, in September, the Senate approved a resolution urging the Bush administration to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization. Not surprisingly, Joe Lieberman, the senator from Tel Aviv, sponsored this non-binding resolution along with neocon faithful, Jon Kyl. Now that all the pieces are in order, the attack on the Revolutionary Guard may commence. No doubt the neocons are pleased by the fact the Revolutionary Guard is situated in Tehran, along with a few million civilians.
Smith was the first to reveal the Downing Street Minutes, an account of a secret 2002 meeting between Bush Administration officials and British intelligence surrounding Iraq, in which MI6 director Richard Dearlove remarked that facts around Iraq were being “fixed” around a policy for war.
“US commanders are increasingly concerned by Iranian interference in Iraq and are determined that recent successes by joint Iraqi and US forces in the southern port city of Basra should not be reversed by the Quds Force,” Smith writes.”‘If the situation in Basra goes back to what it was like before, America is likely to blame Iran and carry out a surgical strike on a militant training camp across the border in Khuzestan,’” he quotes a defense official as saying.
Count on the “situation in Basra” (Shi’ites openly challenging U.S. occupiers) to worsen, same as the situation has steadily grown worse across the entire country, never mind all the fluff emanating from the neocons about the wonderful success of the “surge,” actually an excuse to put more occupation troops in Iraq.
American officials are opposed to any attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, Smith says. They believe, however, that an attack on a militant camp could send a message to the Republican Guard.
Indeed, it will send a message — and an Iranian “surge” all their own into southern Iraq. If there was not an excuse to aid and abet the Shi’a militias in Iraq before, there most certainly will be after the neocons cross over Iran’s border and bomb the Iranian military encamped in downtown Tehran.
CBS News reported last week about a potential strike on Iran.
“Targets would include everything from the plants where weapons are made to the headquarters of the organization known as the Quds Force which directs operations in Iraq,” they wrote.
Targets will also include water treatment plants, sewage facilities, schools, hospitals, mosques — you name it — same target list as was used in Iraq.
If an attack happens it will be on a training camp to send a clear message to Iran not to interfere,” one intelligence officer said.
It will likely also send a “clear message” Iran may commence with slinging Sunburn missiles at U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf. Not only warships but oil tankers as well, thus toppling world oil markets into a severe crisis.
But then this is the sort of dastardly scenario the neocons have entertained for some time. Don’t pay too much attention to the arguments that the neocons are cloistered eggheads, consumed by insane hubris, and have little idea of what they are doing. In order to defeat “Islamofascism,” the neocons need to draft millions of bullet stoppers and nothing will work toward that objective better than crippling the world’s petroleum-based economy.
TruthNews.com (http://www.truthnews.us/?p=2180)
The neocons who run things over at the Pentagon want you to know — the coming attack on Iran has nothing to do with nukes, as they have maintained now for years, but rather Iran’s ability to protect itself.
“The Pentagon is drawing up plans for a ’surgical strike’ against an alleged insurgent training camp in Iran, according to the UK Sunday Times’ Michael Smith,” reports John Byrne for Raw Story. “Attributing the assertion to Western intelligence officials, Smith asserts that US officials have become increasingly frustrated with Iran’s Republican Guard force — an elite corps of the country’s military — which the Bush Administration has designated a terrorist group. Western officials have accused Iran of helping arming rebel militias in Iraq, and have accused Iran of supplying IEDs.”
Never mind over the weekend Iraq admitted they have no evidence Iran is supplying munitions to the “insurgents,” actually a well-organized resistance. Our “hawks,” i.e., neocon psychopaths who hate Iran and love Israel, know most of you cannot remember important events from day to day, especially when key events are buried on the Agence France Presse website.
Everything is going as planned, although the neocons thought they would have flattened Iran and killed untold numbers of toddlers and grandmothers by now.
Back in October of last year, Seymour Hersh, writing for the New Yorker, said the Pentagon neocons had drawn up plans to bomb Iran and shift emphasis from Iran’s illusory nuclear weapon program to the Revolutionary Guard. Earlier, in September, the Senate approved a resolution urging the Bush administration to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization. Not surprisingly, Joe Lieberman, the senator from Tel Aviv, sponsored this non-binding resolution along with neocon faithful, Jon Kyl. Now that all the pieces are in order, the attack on the Revolutionary Guard may commence. No doubt the neocons are pleased by the fact the Revolutionary Guard is situated in Tehran, along with a few million civilians.
Smith was the first to reveal the Downing Street Minutes, an account of a secret 2002 meeting between Bush Administration officials and British intelligence surrounding Iraq, in which MI6 director Richard Dearlove remarked that facts around Iraq were being “fixed” around a policy for war.
“US commanders are increasingly concerned by Iranian interference in Iraq and are determined that recent successes by joint Iraqi and US forces in the southern port city of Basra should not be reversed by the Quds Force,” Smith writes.”‘If the situation in Basra goes back to what it was like before, America is likely to blame Iran and carry out a surgical strike on a militant training camp across the border in Khuzestan,’” he quotes a defense official as saying.
Count on the “situation in Basra” (Shi’ites openly challenging U.S. occupiers) to worsen, same as the situation has steadily grown worse across the entire country, never mind all the fluff emanating from the neocons about the wonderful success of the “surge,” actually an excuse to put more occupation troops in Iraq.
American officials are opposed to any attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, Smith says. They believe, however, that an attack on a militant camp could send a message to the Republican Guard.
Indeed, it will send a message — and an Iranian “surge” all their own into southern Iraq. If there was not an excuse to aid and abet the Shi’a militias in Iraq before, there most certainly will be after the neocons cross over Iran’s border and bomb the Iranian military encamped in downtown Tehran.
CBS News reported last week about a potential strike on Iran.
“Targets would include everything from the plants where weapons are made to the headquarters of the organization known as the Quds Force which directs operations in Iraq,” they wrote.
Targets will also include water treatment plants, sewage facilities, schools, hospitals, mosques — you name it — same target list as was used in Iraq.
If an attack happens it will be on a training camp to send a clear message to Iran not to interfere,” one intelligence officer said.
It will likely also send a “clear message” Iran may commence with slinging Sunburn missiles at U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf. Not only warships but oil tankers as well, thus toppling world oil markets into a severe crisis.
But then this is the sort of dastardly scenario the neocons have entertained for some time. Don’t pay too much attention to the arguments that the neocons are cloistered eggheads, consumed by insane hubris, and have little idea of what they are doing. In order to defeat “Islamofascism,” the neocons need to draft millions of bullet stoppers and nothing will work toward that objective better than crippling the world’s petroleum-based economy.
TruthNews.com (http://www.truthnews.us/?p=2180)