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U.S. Nuclear Attack on Iran Could Be Close

Comment by Larry Ross, October 23, 2006

Google's 9 million articles provide greater evidence that a U.S. attack on Iran, perhaps launched before the U.S. elections on  Nov 7 in order to boost Bush and Republican popularity, is close. The credentials of those Americans predicting this are impressive and should be taken into account by those who doubt such neocon insanity rules America. There is a very real danger that the prediction of ex-chief of UK Defence Forces, Lord Louis Mountbatten in 1979 could come true in 2006 or 7. He said he could not envisage a situation where the use of one nuclear weapon did not lead to more. He said we live in an age of peril "on the edge of the final abyss" and that we could easily go over the edge. Ex-Secretary of Defence, Robert McNamara in a 2005 Foreign Policy article "Apocalypse Soon" said that "we have been incredibly lucky so far not to have destroyed ourselves in a nuclear exchange"  and that "new threats of proliferation and expanded nuclear doctrines make a nuclear disaster more probable now than ever." (PNND News Journal by Alwyn Ware January 2006)

We can be lucky once, even twice or three times. But unfortunately luck does run out, particularly as the nuclear risks keep increasing. Being nuclear free in New Zealand is not a defence against attack if the world suddenly goes mad and some of the 8-9 nuclear weapon states begin launching their own weapons if the U.S. launches a nuclear attack on Iran. It's also not a defence against lethal clouds of radioactivity blowing around the planet. People's natural concerns can be expressed in a variety of ways. Number one is starting to research some of the articles below and/or other sources. There is also many articles on US plans for a war on Iran, and related issues, on this web site.