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Preparations to make War On Iran

Comment by Larry Ross, May 27, 2007

Hugh Scott's piece was a comment on the article which follows, I felt it should also be featured as it is so good and to the point.

Bush could start a war with Iran anytime with a surprise pre-emptive strike, perhaps nuclear as mentioned by several informed commentators. He may not wait until 2008. Bush will need some kind of event or manufactured provocation he can use to justify a sudden attack.

Such as staging a 'false flag' attack on the US, blaming Iran, and using that as his justification to attack. Bush's criminal neo-con administration will have suppressive legislation ready to deal with dissenters or critics. The main mass media, as usual, will parrot Bush's lies. A pre-emptive nuclear strike on Iran could leave many millions dead and dying.

Protest at that time, if allowed under new emergency regulations, will be of little value as this nuclear genocide will have been committed. The die will have been cast, the world aflame and Bush will declare an emergency, marshal law and conscription.  If events do not spiral into a nuclear World War III and destroy humanity, the world and people's own lives and the lives of their children, will never be the same. Wars will become more numerous and endless as Bush has often implied. Children will be taught to love and obey the Bush Administration. As they mature, they will happily fight (and die) in his wars. The so-called 'war on terrorism' will be seen for what it was from the beginning - a war for US global domination and endless wealth for a chosen few.

Congress is already leading the way into this perpetual nightmare by betraying its mandate for peace and giving Bush all the funds he needs to further his wars. There really is no such thing as an independent Congress. Congress is dead. The US Constitution is dead. Also, most of the major Democratic presidential candidates have embraced Bush's war on Iran doctrines. The US has become a one party warfare state with two faces using different words to say the same thing.

There is one man who could lead the US out of this mess. That's Al Gore. If he runs he would probably win an overwhelming victory. But would the criminal Bush Administration and democratic machine collaborators allow him to run? Could he survive and be allowed to win, without an unfortunate heart attack or mysterious plane accident?

People against such a scenario must act now if they wish to prevent it. After it begins will be far too late.

ohn Tillman also gives an excellent presentation on the imprisoned Iranian-American, Haleh Esfandiari, and how this is a gift to the American neo-conservative Right who are agitating for a war on Iran.

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Comment from Hugh Scott

on Right Wing Itches to Strike Iran, May 26, 2007

I'm convinced President Bush will order the bombing of Iran's nuclear facilties in 2008, - for three reasons.

First, he has no concept of military leadership, the result of being commissioned in the Air National Guard without any officer training whatsoever.

Second, by his own admission, he makes decisions based on gut instinct, without using the best minds and information available.

Third, Shrub is a born-again Christian who believes he’s on a mission from God to spread freedom and democracy throughout the Middle East.

The volatile combination of those character traits will, I believe, cause him to order a preemptive strike against Iran next year. Only the Pentagon can stop him – specifically, Marine General Pete Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

The big question then becomes, will Gen. Pace act like an American patriot instead of a White House lapdog and declare the Oval Office order unconstitutional – i.e. an act of war without the approval of Congress?

We had all better pray he does.

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Right Wing Itches to Strike Iran

by John Tillman, April 26, 2007

The hard right in the U.S. has tried to exploit the arrest of Middle East scholar Haleh Esfandiari to create a reason for America's conservatives to attack Iran.

The case of Haleh Esfandiari's imprisonment in Iran is sparking the kind of commotion that periodically grips America's intellectual class and, more ominously, is providing reasons for America's right wing to attack Iran.

Dr. Esfandiari, 67, was born and raised in Iran but has spent much of her professional life in the United States, now as the much-respected director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a leading think tank in Washington, D.C. At the end of a visit to her ailing mother in Tehran last winter, she was detained. She was recently arrested and is now in prison awaiting trial. A citizen of both America and Iran, she has been charged with trying to foment a "velvet revolution" in Iran -- soft, nonviolent regime change. She and everyone associated with her deny the charges.

Editorials have been lambasting Iran's Intelligence Ministry, which many see as responsible for this, and a number of important public intellectuals are calling for action. Juan Cole, professor of history at the University of Michigan and a specialist on the region, wrote in his highly regarded blog, Informed Comment, "I had been planning to go to a conference in Iran in July, hosted by some French scholars, but I have cancelled in protest against this detention of my friend. I don't see how normal intellectual life can go on when a scholar at the Wilson Center can't safely visit Iran."

A boycott was rumored but apparently is not actually afoot, as Ali Banuazizi, the eminent scholar at Boston College and past president of the Middle East Studies Association, told me. "Boycotts punish too many innocent people," he says, "but letters and statements send a signal." A strongly worded letter that Banuazizi helped craft and is signed by a Who's Who of Iran scholars in the United States, protested the arrest and imprisonment, rightly noting that "in her capacity as the director of the Middle East Program at the Wilson Center, Dr. Esfandiari has been a staunch advocate of peaceful dialogue between Tehran and Washington in resolving their disputes."

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