AMERICA'S CRIMINAL WAR HAWKS FIND THEIR SCHEMING PLANS FRUSTRATED: ‘Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki Stalls U.S. Plan to Frame Iran’ - ‘The Myth of the Iranian Sanctuary’ - ‘American Jewish Groups Break With Hawks’
Subject: AMERICA'S CRIMINAL WAR HAWKS FIND THEIR SCHEMING PLANS FRUSTRATED: ‘Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki Stalls U.S. Plan to Frame Iran’ - ‘The Myth of the Iranian Sanctuary’ - ‘American Jewish Groups Break With Hawks’
U.S. CRIMINAL WAR HAWKS FIND THEIR SCHEMING PLANS FRUSTRATED: ‘Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki Stalls U.S. Plan to Frame Iran’ - ‘The Myth of the Iranian Sanctuary’ - ‘American Jewish Groups Break With Hawks’
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Maliki Stalls U.S. Plan to Frame Iran
by Gareth Porter, Antiwar.Com, 15 May, 2008.
Early this month, the George W. Bush administration's plan to create a new crescendo of accusations against Iran for allegedly smuggling arms to Shiite militias in Iraq encountered not just one but two setbacks.
The government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refused to endorse US charges of Iranian involvement in arms smuggling to the Mahdi Army, and a plan to show off a huge collection of Iranian arms captured in and around Karbala had to be called off after it was discovered that none of the arms were of Iranian origin.
The news media's failure to report that the arms captured from Shiite militiamen in Karbala did not include a single Iranian weapon shielded the US military from a much bigger blow to its anti-Iran strategy.
The Bush administration and top Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus had plotted a sequence of events that would build domestic US political support for a possible strike against Iran over its "meddling" in Iraq and especially its alleged export of arms to Shiite militias.
The plan was keyed to a briefing document to be prepared by Petraeus on the alleged Iranian role in arming and training Shiite militias that would be surfaced publicly after the al-Maliki government had endorsed it and it used to accuse Iran publicly.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, told reporters on Apr. 25 that Petraeus was preparing a briefing to be given "in the next couple of weeks" that would provide detailed evidence of "just how far Iran is reaching into Iraq to foment instability." The centerpiece of the Petraeus document, completed in late April, was the claim that arms captured in Basra bore 2008 manufacture dates on them.
US officials also planned to display Iranian weapons captured in both Basra and Karbala to reporters. That sequence of media events would fill the airwaves with spectacular news framing Iran as the culprit in Iraq for several days, aimed at breaking down Congressional and public resistance to the idea that Iranian bases supporting the meddling would have to be attacked.
But events in Iraq diverged from the plan. On May 4, after an Iraqi delegation had returned from meetings in Iran, al-Maliki's spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, said in a news conference that al-Maliki was forming his own Cabinet committee to investigate the US claims. "We want to find tangible information and not information based on speculation," he said.
Another adviser to al-Maliki, Haider Abadi, told the Los Angeles Times' Alexandra Zavis that Iranian officials had given the delegation evidence disproving the charges. "For us to be impartial, we have to investigate," Abadi said.
Al-Dabbagh made it clear that the government considered the US evidence of Iranian government arms smuggling insufficient. "The proof we have is weapons which are shown to have been made in Iran," al- Dabbagh said in a separate interview with Reuters. "We want to trace back how they reached [Iraq], who is using them, where are they getting it."
Senior US military officials were clearly furious with al-Maliki for backtracking on the issue. "We were blindsided by this," one of them told Zavis…
THE COMING ISRAELI AND U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN - MUST READ! ‘The Prime Directive: U.S. War Plans Targeting Iran Are All About "Protecting" Israel’ http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12827
‘Target: Iran? On Israel's 60th Birthday, The Jewish State May Be Readying For Its Biggest Fight Yet. What That Could Mean For The Next American President.' http://www.newsweek.com/id/136065
(I don't agree with its 'Irresistible Push For War' premise, but this article makes some valid points - so wake up and GET ACTIVE to massively protest and prevent this next planned war crime!) 'Why All of Our Efforts Won’t Stop the Attack on Iran' http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/05/why-all-of-our-efforts-won%E2%8...
Goebbels himself would be proud of this Big Lie! Pure Propaganda - The Oft-Repeated False Charge That Iran Has Threatened To "Wipe Israel Off The Map" http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/GEO237.HTM
The REAL Truth: Iran Has never Threatened To Attack Israel Preemptively, But Nuclear-Armed Israel HAS Threatened Iran With Attack And Destruction!
AN ISRAELI AND U.S.ATTACK ON IRAN? - "It's still not really beyond Bush and Cheney to order a full-scale preemptive attack on Iran. But the more likely scenario is that there will be an asymmetrical U.S. response to a (possibly trumped-up) Iranian provocation. And the most likely scenario is that the United States will encourage (or certainly not oppose) an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities - which in turn would lead the United States to come to Israel's defense should Iran strike back." http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2008/05/a_secret_afghanis... - o O o - ‘U.S. Prophesizes Iran Striking Back’ http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=54690§ionid=351020101
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U.S. CRIMINAL WAR HAWKS FIND THEIR SCHEMING PLANS FRUSTRATED: ‘Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki Stalls U.S. Plan to Frame Iran’ - ‘The Myth of the Iranian Sanctuary’ - ‘American Jewish Groups Break With Hawks’
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Maliki Stalls U.S. Plan to Frame Iran
by Gareth Porter, Antiwar.Com, 15 May, 2008.
Early this month, the George W. Bush administration's plan to create a new crescendo of accusations against Iran for allegedly smuggling arms to Shiite militias in Iraq encountered not just one but two setbacks.
The government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refused to endorse US charges of Iranian involvement in arms smuggling to the Mahdi Army, and a plan to show off a huge collection of Iranian arms captured in and around Karbala had to be called off after it was discovered that none of the arms were of Iranian origin.
The news media's failure to report that the arms captured from Shiite militiamen in Karbala did not include a single Iranian weapon shielded the US military from a much bigger blow to its anti-Iran strategy.
The Bush administration and top Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus had plotted a sequence of events that would build domestic US political support for a possible strike against Iran over its "meddling" in Iraq and especially its alleged export of arms to Shiite militias.
The plan was keyed to a briefing document to be prepared by Petraeus on the alleged Iranian role in arming and training Shiite militias that would be surfaced publicly after the al-Maliki government had endorsed it and it used to accuse Iran publicly.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, told reporters on Apr. 25 that Petraeus was preparing a briefing to be given "in the next couple of weeks" that would provide detailed evidence of "just how far Iran is reaching into Iraq to foment instability." The centerpiece of the Petraeus document, completed in late April, was the claim that arms captured in Basra bore 2008 manufacture dates on them.
US officials also planned to display Iranian weapons captured in both Basra and Karbala to reporters. That sequence of media events would fill the airwaves with spectacular news framing Iran as the culprit in Iraq for several days, aimed at breaking down Congressional and public resistance to the idea that Iranian bases supporting the meddling would have to be attacked.
But events in Iraq diverged from the plan. On May 4, after an Iraqi delegation had returned from meetings in Iran, al-Maliki's spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, said in a news conference that al-Maliki was forming his own Cabinet committee to investigate the US claims. "We want to find tangible information and not information based on speculation," he said.
Another adviser to al-Maliki, Haider Abadi, told the Los Angeles Times' Alexandra Zavis that Iranian officials had given the delegation evidence disproving the charges. "For us to be impartial, we have to investigate," Abadi said.
Al-Dabbagh made it clear that the government considered the US evidence of Iranian government arms smuggling insufficient. "The proof we have is weapons which are shown to have been made in Iran," al- Dabbagh said in a separate interview with Reuters. "We want to trace back how they reached [Iraq], who is using them, where are they getting it."
Senior US military officials were clearly furious with al-Maliki for backtracking on the issue. "We were blindsided by this," one of them told Zavis…
THE COMING ISRAELI AND U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN - MUST READ! ‘The Prime Directive: U.S. War Plans Targeting Iran Are All About "Protecting" Israel’ http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12827
‘Target: Iran? On Israel's 60th Birthday, The Jewish State May Be Readying For Its Biggest Fight Yet. What That Could Mean For The Next American President.' http://www.newsweek.com/id/136065
(I don't agree with its 'Irresistible Push For War' premise, but this article makes some valid points - so wake up and GET ACTIVE to massively protest and prevent this next planned war crime!) 'Why All of Our Efforts Won’t Stop the Attack on Iran' http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/05/why-all-of-our-efforts-won%E2%8...
Goebbels himself would be proud of this Big Lie! Pure Propaganda - The Oft-Repeated False Charge That Iran Has Threatened To "Wipe Israel Off The Map" http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/GEO237.HTM
The REAL Truth: Iran Has never Threatened To Attack Israel Preemptively, But Nuclear-Armed Israel HAS Threatened Iran With Attack And Destruction!
AN ISRAELI AND U.S.ATTACK ON IRAN? - "It's still not really beyond Bush and Cheney to order a full-scale preemptive attack on Iran. But the more likely scenario is that there will be an asymmetrical U.S. response to a (possibly trumped-up) Iranian provocation. And the most likely scenario is that the United States will encourage (or certainly not oppose) an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities - which in turn would lead the United States to come to Israel's defense should Iran strike back." http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2008/05/a_secret_afghanis...
'The Grand Canal - The Elite's Continent-Reshaping, Climate-Altering Water-Diversion Plan Will Turn Canadian Water Into 'Liquid Gold' From James Bay To Mexico!' http://www.mimico-by-the-lake.com/grand.htm
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> On Thu, 15 May 2008 14:33:08 -0700 (PDT), "simple_langu...@yahoo.com"
> <simple_langu...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >Do not feed the Muslim troll. The troll (Faris Jawad) emigrated from > >southern India to Hamilton, Canada, where he makes a living as a > >computer programmer.
> What's the piece of shit's real name?
I do not know. He is extremely fanatical Muslim, ripe to become suicide bomber. For the past several years he has been spewing a few thousand hateful newsgroup posts a month.
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Planned U.S. Israeli Attack On Iran: Will There Be A War Against Iran?
by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, May 14, 2008.
The media has failed to cover the history of US war preparations directed against Iran. News coverage of US sponsored war preparations in relation to Iran started to surface in early 2007 in scanty press reports.
Although confirmed by official military documents and reports, public opinion has largely been kept in the dark and misinformed on these war preparations.
A war on Iran has been envisaged since the mid-1990s as part of a strategic "sequencing" of theater operations. During the Clinton administration, US Central Command (USCENTCOM) had formulated "in war theater plans" to invade first Iraq and then Iran:
"The broad national security interests and objectives expressed in the President's National Security Strategy (NSS) and the Chairman's National Military Strategy (NMS) form the foundation of the United States Central Command's theater strategy. The NSS directs implementation of a strategy of dual containment of the rogue states of Iraq and Iran as long as those states pose a threat to U.S. interests, to other states in the region, and to their own citizens. Dual containment is designed to maintain the balance of power in the region without depending on either Iraq or Iran. USCENTCOM's theater strategy is interest-based and threat-focused. The purpose of U.S. engagement, as espoused in the NSS, is to protect the United States' vital interest in the region - uninterrupted, secure U.S./Allied access to Gulf oil."
Consistent with CENTCOM's 1995 "sequencing", the plans to target Iran were activated under TIRANNT (Theater Iran Near Term) in the immediate wake of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. TIRANNT consisted in a model scenario type analysis of a theater war directed against Iran. The analysis, which involved senior military and intelligence experts, consisted in examining different theater scenarios.
"The US army, navy, air force and marines have all prepared battle plans and spent four years building bases and training for "Operation Iranian Freedom". Admiral Fallon, the new head of US Central Command [resigned in March 2008], has inherited computerized plans under the name TIRANNT (Theatre Iran Near Term)." (New Statesman, 19 Feb 2007)
The following text (in annex) entitled Planned US Israeli Attack on Iran was published three years ago by Global Research in May 2005. It outlines the earlier phase of US-Israel war preparations in relation to Iran.
While much of this analysis remains valid, military planning in relation to Iran is now in a much more advanced stage. Moreover, the structure of military alliances underlying the Pentagon's war plans has also evolved. NATO is now part of the military alliance.
Under NATO auspices, in liaison with the Pentagon, British, German, Turkish and French forces are slated to play a significant role in the case of an attack on Iran and Syria.
In this regard, it is worth noting that already in 2005, NATO and Israel had established the basis of a far-reaching military cooperation agreement. In turn, Turkey, which from a military standpoint constitutes a significant force within NATO, has a comprehensive bilateral military cooperation agreement with Israel.
According to military documents and statements, US, Israeli and allied forces are "in an advanced state of readiness". In fact much of the war planning had already reached that "advanced stage" in 2005.
Several important variables come into play in assessing the possibility of an all out war on Iran.
"An advanced stage of readiness" to attack Iran does not signify that a war will actually occur. A number of important countervailing factors must be addressed.
Saber Rattling
Apart from outright war, the US sponsored war preparations serve several other foreign policy objectives.
The threat of war coupled by advanced military preparedness are often used to bully countries into compliance, to oblige them to give up their sovereignty, to open up their economy to Western investors, to privatize and sell off their assets to American companies, etc. These threats will only be effective if the country does not have the ability to defend itself militarily. The strength of its national economy is also a major consideration.
The Sabre rattling is ongoing in relation to Iran. The objective is ultimately to subdue Iran as a regional power and take possession of its oil wealth, which constitutes approximately ten percent of total world reserves.
What are Iran's military capabilities, namely its ability to defend itself and inflict damage on US and allied forces?
The answer to this question involves essentially two aspects.
First, Iran has an advanced air defense system, using both Iranian and Russian technology. Moreover, it has, according to Western military experts, perfected its ballistic missile capabilities to the extent that it is capable of inflicting significant damage on US and allied military installations in Iraq, the Persian Gulf and Israel.
Over the last few years, Iran has been actively preparing for a US sponsored attack. Moreover, resulting from the surge in oil revenues, the Tehran government has enhanced capabilities to finance its military preparedness. In this regard, Iran is in a very different situation to that of Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion, targeted by Anglo-American air attacks under the "No Fly Zone" coupled with more than ten years of deadly economic sanctions.
US military planners are fully aware of the possibility of escalation. If extensive air attacks were to be launched, Iranian conventional forces would immediately cross the border into Iraq and attack US military installations. This is a factor which has contributed to "putting the war on hold".
Instead of extensive bombings which would result in retaliation. Washington may decide as a first step in a broader military campaign to launch limited air attacks, on the presumption that Iran would not retaliate. According to Philip Giraldi, the attack would "be as 'pinpoint' and limited as possible, intended to target only al-Qods and avoid civilian casualties." Before launching a "limited attack", the US would attempt to ensure, through threat and secret negotiations, that retaliation would not occur.
The US Military's "Ability to Fight Wars"
Adm. William Fallon, who was recently fired as Commander of US Central Command (USCENTCOM) was acutely aware of Iran's ability to retaliate militarily and inflict significant losses to US and coalition forces. This understanding was in fact conveyed at the outset of the 2003 war scenarios under TIRANNT.
Prior to his dimissal, Admiral Fallon played down the possibility of a war with Iran: “We are not going to do Iran on my watch.”.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen, while broadly supportive of the Bush-Cheney White House, has officially acknowledged US military weaknesses. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan "may have undermined the military's ability to fight wars against major adversaries - including Iran." ( quoted in Haaretz, October 22, 2007).
In an interview with the New York Times, Mullen stated:
"...the risks could be very, very high.... We're in a conflict in two countries out there right now... We have to be incredibly thoughtful about the potential of in fact getting into a conflict with a third country in that part of the world."
These statements were made at the very outset of his mandate as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in October 2007.
Mullen's hesitations to wage war on Iran are not based on a divergent political stance but on a realistic assessment of US military capabilities. Admiral Mullen recognizes that the US military is overstretched and that in relation to Iraq, the US military is facing serious problems in military recru
