Over the next few months, the administration and its allies and functionaries will create and provoke a pretext that forces a political consensus behind an attack on Iran. Any or all of the following may occur:

Violent resistance to US occupation within Iraq is blamed on Iran. As previously noted, the idea that Iran is arming Iraqi attacks against US forces is a central theme of new Bush administration propaganda...

In a recent testimony before the US Senate, Zbigniew Brzezinski warned that the Bush administration is headed down a “downhill track towards a head-on conflict with Iran and much of the world of Islam”---and that the conflict may begin with a major terror attack, either domestically or overseas, against Americans by Iran...

Brzezinski, a chief architect of the US “Grand Chessboard” geostrategy, which laid the foundation for the 9/11 attacks, has been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration’s “mishandling” of the war. The Bush administration has longed for the right moment to set off "the next 9/11".

Real and imaginary Iranian responses to Bush administration rhetoric or provocations will be characterized as war provocation by Tehran...


Gates lays the propaganda groundwork

In a just-completed testimony that may lay the official foundation for the coming Iran attack, Defense Secretary and Iran-Contra participant Robert Gates has asserted that Iran is “very much involved” in arming Iraqi “militants”.

This new assertion (which Gates has not backed with verifiable proof from a credible source) is based on serial numbers allegedly found on the remnants of bombs used against US forces in Iraq. Gates also stated that material seized during the (illegal and Bush-ordered) raid of the Iranian liason office in Irbil, Iraq is being included in the larger case of cooked and false intelligence against Tehran.

Gates, who skated into his post as Donald Rumsfeld’s replacement posing as a critic of the Bush administration’s Iraq war policy, is now the Bush administration’s number one weapon of mass deception on Iran.

Covert operations

The Iran-Iraq region has been brimming with CIA activity for well over a year. It is already a known fact that George W. Bush personally ordered provocative covert operations several months ago, aimed at baiting Iran into a war.

Iran’s intelligence minister Gholam Hossein Ejeli claims that Iran has uncovered a network of 100 CIA and Mossad agents

This comes in wake of a Bush "shoot to kill" order: hunt down and kill Iranians in Iraq.

Militarily and politically encircled

Events are unfolding exactly as warned by former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, whose book Target: Iran has predicted every step the criminal Bush administration and its allies have taken...


Worldwide “terrorism” resurgence

The Bush administration’s buildup comes simultaneous with new and resurfacing threats from “terrorists” working covertly on behalf of Anglo-American interests. Bush-Cheney’s “war on terrorism” criminal network is ramping up for a new phase of violence that it will connect to Iran.

According to unnamed US and British intelligence officials, "Al-Qaeda" has regrouped, and is once again “capable and intent on launching mass attacks around the globe”.

In Afghanistan, under US occupation (and, not surprisingly, in the middle of a once again mushrooming heroin industry), the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, both of which serve as military-intelligence fronts for the US, are “back”...

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When tayloring the intel to the policy, the administration doesn't need to identify the source. They don't care about truth. They only care about a legacy of death, destruction, and mass war profits. The three sources probably don't even exist. They are only spouting propaganda so as they can attack another soveirn nation illegally. Mark my words, the administration will order an attack on Iran before the end of spring. Why do you think they are denying any plans of attack. They don't want to ruin the surprise.
The administration is going to cause the deaths of thousands of American service members and then will retaliate with horrific results. If we don't do something as patriotic citizens to stop them, then we will be making our own bed.
If congress doesn't do something, they will be just as responsible. The people of this country have voiced their displeasure of this war. Congress has seemed to turn a deaf ear to our wants.
It is time for the people to stand up and make the government accountable.

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... from Nuremberg to Colin Powel before the UN (why does that suggest a religious painting title?) they have learned their lesson.

When someone knows who you actually are... they can know whether or not to trust you. When they don't know, you are speaking solely with the voice of "authority". When someone knows who you are, they know who to blame and who to punish when things go wrong. All the lies Bush and co. told to get into Iraq's pants are coming back on them now (though not nearly hard enough). With masked men speaking as generic "authority" it becomes harder and harder to blast the admin with soundbites of their lies and their failures when there are no names, no faces, no identities, and most important of all... no culpability.

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Debunking faulty intelligence and proving Iran isn't trying to develop nuclear weapons is doomed to fail in the "one-percent doctrine" climate the administration has created and that the public buys into. (If there's any chance whatsoever that the enemy, etc., etc.)

Our next line of defense -- a resolution requiring Congress to sign off on an attack against Iran -- also has holes in it. At the first sign of smoke, it will be "Show me to the dotted line."

At the risk of repeating myself, our only hope is harping on the costs of war. No, not American troops that will be killed because, except for helicopters shot down, our fatalities in air wars tend to be zilch.

No, not the fiscal cost of war, because the figures are so large they go over the public's head (and because there's no increase in federal withholding from our paychecks).

But, the fiscal costs in our actual day-to-day lives: recession tending toward depression and double-digit unemployment. In other words, the public needs to be made aware that our jobs and the ability to feed our families is at stake.

Those Americans who think that's not too high a price to pay just to delay Iran's nuclear program for a few years and force it to find more creative ways of funding Hezbollah. . . more power to them.

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Iran: an early "October Surprise"??

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Is Iran the only country supplying weapons to the insurgents?
Isn't it possible that other countries are part of the game? Or doesn't that matter. Has anyone bothered to look. Consider the people and countries who don't like us. It's frightening. Is there something unique about weapons made in Iran? Do they glow in the dark. These same people gave us the WMD story about Iraq. Sorry , that's just not enough reason for another 'pre-emptive' attack. Thanks, ANNA

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Lets not let our Congress forget, the roadside bomb design that is used was taught to the Taliban by the CIA. Like the $12billion missing in action from Bremmer's 500 tons of $100 bills, the components of the bombs come from, yes, the USA's own magazines and munitions dumps. Is the US government responsible for every bullet of US manufacture that murders in our streets? The NRA would have us think not. What if non-governmental citizens are sending small arms to their Shiite relatives in Iraq? How many arms have the Sunni's 'insurgency' been supplied by Saudi Arabian government? Are we threatening the House of Saud?

Another Gulf of Tonkin? The question is only when and how. Only the Israeli Mossad knows. They are calling the shots with Hillary Clinton's implicit approval.

There is absolutely no excuse for the House not to have already rescinded their unconstitutional abdication and delegation of war powers to the Bush Administration. AlterNet needs to mount a campaign to push the House to reestablish its exclusive power to declare war. Right away!

Lon

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Has anyone asked to see how many weapons that have been used against us are marked...'Made in USA?????'

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Which country supported the Mujehadeen in Afganistan back in 1980 when the Former Soviet Union invaded and occupied that country?

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I don't remember all the details but I seem to remember a large shipment was unacounted for! Can anyone elaborate on this?

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